Sunkid: Interview
Here’s looking at you, Kid
Austrian attractions specialist Sunkid offers a wide range of outdoor entertainment solutions from applications for customer transport, rides, and activity towers for younger users, with more than 7,000 installations worldwide. Ronnie Dungan spoke to the firm’s marketing manager, Hannes Koschuta to get a close-up picture…
Tell us a little about the history of Sunkid Sunkid has been striving to put a smile on the faces of its partners and their guests. Based on 40 years of experience in the amusement industry and more than 7,100 installations worldwide, Sunkid designs, manufactures and installs attractive rides for amusement parks and recreational facilities worldwide. Moreover the Sunkid GmbH is known worldwide for its people conveyor belt system for outdoor applications, especially ski resorts. The enterprise is world market leader in this niche with more than 3.200 installations. Applications for people transport in amusement parks, conveying tubes or rafts or other innovative conveying solutions are of course also part of the portfolio. The company’s roots regarding the production of
playground equipment date back to 1974. However, the portfolio performed within relatively few years in the
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direction of the Family Rides. To this day more than 600 different Family Rides have been installed worldwide. Many of them are in use even after decades and millions of rides. Be there in the interactive and rotating around its own axis Tower, the Sky Dive with which you can feel like a bird. Or the Nautic Jet; the only amusement ride worldwide with a free flight phase. Sunkid is positioned in the market as an all-in-one provider for products for leisure parks all year round.
How important is the family entertainment centre market to Sunkid? Is it a growing part of your business? We experiencing a big grow in FECs for a few years now. Not only in UAE, but also in Europe, Russia and Korea we completed references in FECs for our family rides. It fits perfectly with the features of our rides: highly attractive for
May/June 2017
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