I had the great pleasure of being invited to the TKE new Velino escalator launch and safety presentation held at their Hamburg facility on 2nd February 2023.

Over 120 industry colleagues attended from around the globe and were initially presented with a history of TKE and its products by Executive Vice President Product & Supply Chain (Christoph Buss) and the factory’s Managing Director (Tobias Jäger)

The origin of the escalator factory goes back to 1865 with production of bridges, sub-frames for sewing machines and safes. The first escalator was produced in 1950. Since then it has manufactured around 60,000 escalators. A quick calculation reveals that this equates to around 822 escalators a year or 68 a month.

By any means that is some statistic churning out around 3 escalators a day!