Aircraft interiors company Primadonna last week completed the acquisition of SJ Lipkins, the manufacturer of Cloudstone, a lightweight stone surface for business aircraft. Primadonna CEO Seth Newman told AIN the acquisition comes with history between the two companies.
“I owned Lipkins before I owned Primadonna. I bought Primadonna basically with the idea of buying these different specialized business aviation companies and specialized interior products. We'll ultimately merge them together to be one entity. That's how it kind of came about,” he said.
According to Primadonna, the acquisition will help expand its stone surface catalog to “galley countertops, entry and lavatory flooring, cabin bulkheads, drink rails, and game tables.” Newman said the combination will also lead to more creative projects in the future.
“Typically in an airplane, everything is wood veneer, right? We do stone and stone veneer, so we can make tabletop stone, which is like what people are used to in their homes,” he said. “It's more resistant to scratches and things. So we're excited about integrating more stone into the interiors of airplanes and working with designers to do that.”