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ACS UK open for business

03/11/2025

Press releaseIssued by AVIC Cabin Systems UK (ACS UK - was AIM Altitude).
ACS UK open for business
The stunning Emirates Lounge, which continues to be part of ACS UK’s product portfolio. · Photo: Emirates

AVIC Cabin Systems (UK) Limited (ACS UK) today announces that its order book is open and it is offering its full range of products, from social spaces and galleys to front row monuments, feature panels and stowages.

With a full order book in June 2022, ACS UK took a strategic decision at that time to reduce its offerings to new business in order to focus upon the delivery of the programmes acquired from AIM Altitude Ltd. With these products successfully delivered and customer confidence fully maintained, ACS UK is now open and ready for new business.

Nigel McSorely, CEO of ACS UK, said: “We have been quietly but busily working in the background to safeguard future product offerings, and several key programmes are already underway. Our ethos and focus on customer satisfaction and the delivery of high-quality equipment using highly skilled people continues. We have seen exceptional on-time delivery performance of world-class products to Airbus and Boeing over the past few years. We are very proud of this achievement.”

New capacity

ACS UK has been working on large orders of front row monuments, galleys and social zones for pre-existing customers. Now that many of these have been delivered, ACS UK is able to offer vital and additional capacity to the market.

Nigel McSorely commented: “The advantage ACS UK has is that we are new but not new. We have the facilities and capacity of a new company, with the experience and expertise of an industry stalwart. ACS UK has a great depth of knowledge and skill but also the ability to grow and take on significant new contracts.”

ACS UK has been achieving this success from its new world-class engineering facility in Bournemouth UK and through its design base in New Zealand, and manufacturing bases in Cambridge UK and China.

Bespoke design specialisms

Front row monuments, feature panels and bespoke social areas are particular specialities of ACS UK. The company is well known for its innovative design, meticulous engineering and specialist manufacturing processes, bringing vital differentiation to its airline customers.

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