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Lufthansa Ready to Discuss Completions Here
By: James Wynbrandt
Caption: Lufthansa Technik is focusing here at ABACE on experience and capabilities carrying out completions for Chinese customers.
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Lufthansa Technik (Booth P118) is showcasing its completion capabilities and products for head-of-state, executive and special-mission aircraft here at ABACE 2015. Sharing the booth are its affiliates–U.S.-based narrowbody completion specialist BizJet International and Lufthansa Technik Aero Alzey. 
  
Among the world’s oldest and largest completion service centers, Hamburg’s Lufthansa Technik has performed 29 completions for customers in Greater China, the majority over the past decade. Company representatives are eager to share news of its latest projects with ABACE attendees.
  
With the region’s economy cooling, one of its offerings likely to draw attention is Leadership Select, a cost-conscious platform adaptable modular concept for interior completions of ACJ319s and BBJ2s. Leadership Select offers a multitude of cabin elements that customers can mix and match to create an almost completely individualized cabin layout.
  
To help envision what the completed interior will look like, Lufthansa Technik is also demonstrating an online tool customers can use to select elements and design their own narrowbody aircraft cabin. The intuitive interface makes it easy to take full advantage of the company’s Leadership Select products for aircraft completions, according to the company. 
  
Making its ABACE debut is the company’s new Dishwashair dishwasher, designed for use on aircraft and developed by hs2 engineering under the guidance of Lufthansa Technik engineers. Compatible for installation in standard aircraft galleys, the professional quality Dishwashair can easily be attached to the available connections for fresh and waste water or vacuum systems in an aircraft. The unit can wash a load of dishes in only six minutes using just three liters of water, and a single fill-up of the two required cleaning agents is enough for up to 40 wash cycles. Moreover, standardized galley baskets used for placement of dishes and silverware fit in Dishwashair for easy load in and load out. 
  
“Long-haul aircraft in particular take along lots of dishware, amounts that can be reduced considerably with clever logistics,” said Oliver Thomaschewski, head of seating and structures at the company’s original equipment innovation product division. “Now our Dishwashair makes it possible to bring along only the amounts actually needed to provide service,” reducing weight.
  
Lufthansa Technik is also displaying its “chair” family of highly customizable and innovative aircraft seats. Also being showcased here is its Patient Transport Unit Next Generation, developed for installation aboard aircraft that occasionally transport passengers needing intensive medical care. 
  
For owners looking for more than completion services alone, Lufthansa Technik offers its SixStars portfolio, a turnkey service for acquiring, owning and operating a head-of-state, executive or special-mission aircraft.