Seven staircases for the royal family

摘要

ThyssenKrupp will let the customer be king. Quite literally: The times when members of Saudi Arabia's royal family had to climb stairs to enter one of their aircraft are long gone. Instead, one of seven specially manufactured passenger conveyors now brings them on board their plane in a kingly manner. The royal contract was a special assignment for Frank Lunderstedt, project head for mobile equipment at ThyssenKrupp Fahrtreppen. Yet the Hamburg based company, which specializes in escalators and passenger conveyors and is part of ThyssenKrupp Elevator, often welcomes customers who are looking for more than a standardized solution: "It is quite normal for us to accommodate the customer's wishes and manufacture exactly that conveyor which the customer wants," says Frank Lunderstedt.