For more than three decades, Vangenhassend has been inspiring customers with complex,
architecture-adapted and design-oriented guidance, orientation and information systems – analog, digital and fully accessible. Naturally, the new GATE member’s products can also be found at
airports. One product in particular has made the company from Kaarst, North Rhine-Westphalia, well known in the aviation industry: the Baggage Sizer – a mobile, design-oriented baggage
measuring and weighing system that operates without external power supply and has been in use for many years, including by Lufthansa. GATE spoke with Managing Director Dirk
Vangenhassend and Marketing Manager Nina Hons about the plans of The Baggage Sizer Company!
GATE: What triggered your decision to join GATE?
Dirk Vangenhassend:
We decided to bring a product that had long operated almost exclusively in the background – and was essentially known only to a few customers such as Lufthansa – more strongly into the public spotlight. The time had come to market our portfolio more actively. At inter airport Europe, we then came into contact with GATE and immediately had the feeling that we were among like-minded partners from the airport industry.
GATE: Your current focus is strongly on the Baggage Sizer. Why?
Nina Hons:
Our portfolio is broader than many people realize – ranging from guidance systems and information totems to digital kiosk solutions. However, with the Baggage Sizer we have clearly defined a strong USP. The product combines weighing, size control, design, quality and accessibility – completely autonomous, without a power socket, and with battery runtimes of up to one year. This represents a major advantage for airlines.
GATE: What differentiates your system from other solutions on the market?
Dirk Vangenhassend:
Many are familiar with the classic steel-frame solutions. Our approach is different: high-quality design, adaptable to airline-specific baggage formats, mobile in use and technically sophisticated. In addition, we continuously develop the Baggage Sizer further – for example by integrating digital display elements that will allow carrier-specific content and corporate designs to be shown in the future.
GATE: Are airports also an important target group for you?
Dirk Vangenhassend:
Absolutely. Airports face the challenge of accommodating many airlines and baggage formats while maintaining a clean and aesthetically pleasing terminal environment. This is exactly where our solutions come into play – offering standardization and consistency while maintaining a high-quality appearance. For airports, this is at least as attractive as it is for airlines.
GATE: What role does GATE play in your future plans?
Nina Hons:
For us, GATE is an ideal sparring partner. The network brings together the entire spectrum of the airport industry in Europe and beyond. Especially for new product developments, we want to use GATE to create visibility, receive feedback and engage in targeted dialogue with airports, airlines and other stakeholders – for example through trade fairs, innovation formats or pilot projects.
Dirk Vangenhassend:
We are not passive members. If we are involved, we want to contribute actively – and in return we expect exchange, constructive friction and further development. We are particularly interested in
formats such as international trade fairs, including Passenger Terminal Expo, innovation and airport events, as well as pilot projects at small and medium-sized airports.
Through our GATE membership, we pursue clear objectives: increasing visibility in the airport and airline environment, playing an active role in network and innovation formats, further developing our Baggage Sizer for new use cases, and expanding cooperation with airports and industry partners.
Behind the Baggage Sizer: Nina Hons and Dirk Vangenhassend bringing smart design and autonomy to airport terminals.
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