Aircraft Fabricated Seals Market Report

Market Highlights

Fabricated seals are majorly airframe profile seals fabricated into various shapes and sizes to improve an aircraft's aerodynamic efficiency. These fabricated seals are manufactured through either hand-fabrication, pull-thru, and strip-mold processes with greater precision over detail and quality-assured through 100% inspection to offer reliability in service and efficiency in assembly and maintenance. Advancements in processing technologies, such as increasing usage of advanced finite element analysis combined with product qualification programs, are likely to further create huge potential in the market in the years to come.   

The aircraft fabricated seals market blossomed at a healthier pace till 2018. In 2019, the market registered a marginal downfall due to the grounding of the B737 max and delays in market entries of the most awaited programs, such as COMAC C9191, Irkut MC-21, and Boeing B777x. While the industry was expecting a quick recovery in the demand for fabricated seals in 2020; but, the rapid spread of the pandemic entirely flipped the entire market dynamics, deepening the existing industry challenges including delays in B737 max re-approval. Ultimately, the pandemic forced the leading aircraft manufacturers to curtail their key aircraft production rates. As a result of that, Stratview Research estimates that the market for aircraft fabricated seals registered a hefty decline of -27.5% in 2020.

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The long-term outlook still seems fruitful, well backed by the industry’s strong fundamentals. The lift of Boeing’s B737Max in October 2020, gradual opening up of travel restrictions, and rebounding aircraft deliveries are among the few key factors signaling towards the industry’s take off to a healthy recuperation, helping the aircraft fabricated market stakeholders to recoup at a propitious rate of 8.8% to reach US$ 0.95 Billion in 2026.

Segments' Analysis

By Aircraft Type

The aircraft fabricated seals market is segmented as commercial aircraft, regional aircraft, helicopter, military aircraft, and general aviation. Despite a gradual decline in 2020, commercial aircraft is expected to remain the largest and the fastest-growing segment of the market during the forecast period. Stringent regulations regarding CO₂ emission and high demand for fuel-efficient and lightweight aircraft, market entry of new players, such as COMAC and Irkut, rebounding aircraft deliveries, and resumption of B737Max are some of the key factors propelling the demand for fabricated seals in the commercial aircraft segment.

IATA’s estimates on December 2019 (Pre-COVID 19) suggested a positive 4.1% growth in RPKs in 2020, whereas the latest estimates (December 2020) of the organization address the possible impact of the pandemic in the airline industry and reveal a mammoth decline of 66% in RPKs equivalent to a loss of US$ 418 billion of airline passenger revenues in 2020. Despite all breath-taking market conditions, the long-term outlook still seems positive with good opportunities lying in the industry once the headwinds of the pandemic turn into tailwinds. Huge order backlogs of Boeing and Airbus, asserting them to produce aircraft for more than seven years at the current production rate.

By Application Type

The aircraft fabricated seals market is segmented as airframe, nacelles & engines, landing gear wheels & brakes, and others. The airframe segment is expected to remain most dominant, whereas landing gear wheels & brakes to be the fastest-growing segment of the market during the forecast period. The large surface area of the airframe with the need for better aerodynamics and drag reduction is the major factor behind the dominance of airframe applications in the market.

By Motion Type

The market is segmented as static seals and dynamic seals. Static seals are expected to remain the larger and faster-growing segment of the market during the forecast period. Frequent overhaul of dynamic seals is the major factor behind the higher growth of dynamic seals in the market.

Regional Analysis

North America is expected to remain the largest market for aircraft fabricated seals during the forecast period. The USA is the growth engine of the region’s market with the presence of major aircraft OEMs, tier players, raw material suppliers, and part fabricators. Most of the fabricated seals' suppliers have their presence in the region to address the emergent needs of OEMs for their upcoming aircraft programs or upcoming fuel-efficient variants of existing aircraft programs.

Asia-Pacific is likely to witness the highest growth during the same period. The highest growth of Asia-Pacific is mainly attributable to the increasing aircraft fleet to support rising passenger traffic, the opening of assembly plants of Boeing and Airbus for multiple aircraft programs, increasing procurement of military aircraft, owing to rising defense budget; and upcoming indigenous aircraft C919.

Key Players

The supply chain of this market comprises several nodes including raw material suppliers, seals manufacturers, tier players, aircraft and engine OEMs, airlines, aircraft leasing companies, and MRO companies.

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The following are the key players in the market:

• Eaton Corporation
• EnPro Industries
• Freudenberg Group
• Hutchinson SA
• Meggitt Plc
• Parker-Hannifin Corporation
• Saint Gobain
• SKF Group
• TransDigm Group
• Trelleborg Group

Research Methodology

This strategic assessment report, from Stratview Research, provides a comprehensive analysis that reflects today’s aircraft fabricated seals market realities and future market possibilities for the forecast period of 2021 to 2026. After a continuous interest in our Aircraft Seals market report from the industry stakeholders, we have tried to further accentuate our research scope to the aircraft fabricated seals market in order to provide the most crystal-clear picture of the market. The report segments and analyses the market in the most detailed manner in order to provide a panoramic view of the market. The vital data/information provided in the report can play a crucial role for the market participants and investors in identifying the low-hanging fruits available in the market and formulating the growth strategies to expedite their growth process.

This report offers high-quality insights and is the outcome of a detailed research methodology comprising extensive secondary research, rigorous primary interviews with industry stakeholders, and validation and triangulation with Stratview Research’s internal database and statistical tools. More than 1,000 authenticated secondary sources, such as company annual reports, fact books, press releases, journals, investor presentations, white papers, patents, and articles, have been leveraged to gather the data. We conducted more than 15 detailed primary interviews with the market players across the value chain in all four regions and industry experts to obtain both qualitative and quantitative insights.

Report Features

This report provides market intelligence in the most comprehensive way. The report structure has been kept such that it offers maximum business value. It provides critical insights into the market dynamics and will enable strategic decision making for the existing market players as well as those willing to enter the market. The following are the key features of the report:

• Overview, industry life cycle and supply chain analysis.
• Report environment analysis: Growth drivers and constraints, Porter’s five forces and SWOT analysis.
• Trend and forecast analysis.
• Segment trend and forecast.
• Competitive landscape and dynamics: Market share, Product portfolio, New Product Launches, etc.
• Attractive market segments and associated growth opportunities.
• Emerging trends.
• Strategic growth opportunities for the existing and new players.
• Key success factors.

The aircraft fabricated seals market is segmented into the following categories:

By Aircraft Type

• Commercial Aircraft
• Regional Aircraft
• Helicopters
• Military Aircraft
• General Aviation

By Application Type

• Airframe
• Nacelles & Engines
• Landing Gear Wheels & Brakes
• Others

By Motion Type

• Static Seals
• Dynamic Seals

By End-User Type

• OE
• Aftermarket

By Region

• North America (Country Analysis: The USA, Canada, and Mexico)
• Europe (Country Analysis: Germany, France, the UK, Russia, and Rest of Europe)
• Asia-Pacific (Country Analysis: Japan, China, India, and Rest of Asia-Pacific)
• Rest of the World (Country Analysis: Brazil, Saudi Arabia, and Others)

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