Aviaco is a leading global provider of Ground Support Equipment (GSE) solutions, offering sales, leasing, and refurbishment services to airlines, airports, and ground handlers worldwide. With over 30 years of industry experience, Aviaco blends technical excellence, innovation, and sustainability to deliver reliable, cost-efficient equipment and tailored solutions. Our commitment ensures seamless airport operations and long-term value for partners across five continents.
Aviapartner - The leading independent provider of Airport Ground Handling services across Africa and Europe.
Since 1949, Aviapartner is the leading independent provider of Airport Ground Handling services at over 75 airports across Europe and Africa. With operations in Belgium, Estonia, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, South Africa, and Switzerland, Aviapartner employs 18000+ dedicated professionals serving the needs of 120+ million passengers.
A wide range of Airport Ground Services is provided to over 500 passenger and cargo airlines.• Ramp Handling• Passenger Handling• Lost and Found Services• Load Control• Airport Management and Supervision• Concierge Services• Ground Transportation• Airport Lounges
Ground handlers invest significant time and resources into staff training — yet aircraft damages, safety incidents, and operational inefficiencies still occur. Despite these efforts, traditional training methods often fail to deliver consistent real-world performance.
Draxon, the leading virtual reality (VR) training solution provider for ground handlers and airlines, tackles this challenge by transforming how aviation teams learn and operate. All training modules are standardized according to IATA and EASA regulations, with a strong focus on GSE operation and ramp safety. This ensures global compliance while enabling realistic, risk-free learning environments that drive better retention and safer performance.
Draxon’s VR training solution improves safety, speed, and compliance during aircraft turnaround operations. The company delivers a turnkey solution, providing interactive training content, VR devices, and a management platform to oversee users, training progress, and device fleets. Customers benefit from faster onboarding, higher training quality, and reduced costs through minimized time and effort.
With operations in key aviation hubs including Berlin, Vienna, Madrid, Brussels, and Munich, Draxon supports some of the industry’s most trusted names, such as Airline Assistance Switzerland (AAS) and Worldwide Flight Services (WFS) - helping them elevate safety culture and operational excellence across their networks.
Combining technical expertise with a deep understanding of customer requirements, Mallaghan designs and manufactures a comprehensive range of specialist products, including hi-lifts, aircraft maintenance, stairs, and deicers, tailored to the needs of our international partners.
Headquartered in Dungannon, Northern Ireland, and with a manufacturing facility in Newnan, Georgia, Mallaghan employs a team of more than 500 people.
With Ronan and Niall Mallaghan at the helm of the business, Mallaghan is committed to continued investment within the industry to ensure a range of innovative, sustainable GSE for airlines, airport and handling agents right across the world.
Part of the ALVEST Group, TLD has been specializing for over 70 years in the design, manufacturing, sales, and after-sales services of aircraft Ground Support Equipment (GSE).As the global GSE leader, TLD boasts a global workforce of 2,200 employees including 230 R&D engineers, thriving on a foundation of strong values and ethics.TLD provides a complete range of solutions to lead the green transition and meet the challenges of ramp electrification and automation.In its 10 factories worldwide, the company manufactures a wide range of products from cargo loaders to aircraft pushback tractors, through ground power units, air conditioning units and passenger stairs.TLD is ISO 14001 and 9001 certified.On any given year, TLD products get typically commissioned throughout 150+ countries. TLD’s field service team is distributed across our global network of 45 local offices to 1300 customers.The TLD teams are fully committed to a bold ESG roadmap. Today, over 50% of TLD GSE production is electric GSE. TLD also leads the way to introduce autonomous GSE and ADAS technologies into airports.
Fulfilling a long-awaited need within the company’s aviation portfolio that includes Ground Handling International and Ramp Equipment News, Air Logistics International was launched in 2018. Its coverage is wide, embracing as it does shippers, forwarders, handlers, carriers and even some of the machinery that goes to make the cargo operation the success story that it is. Technology updates, as well as the march of digitalisation and e-commerce, all come in for regular comment. Equally, readers will encounter opinion pieces from senior figures within the industry as well as contributed articles on a range of topics from knowledgeable freight specialists.
For over 25 years Ground Handling International has been at the very heart of business on the airport ramp. Read by key personnel from handling companies, airports, airlines and GSE manufacturers, it continues to deliver targeted material on ground handling on a global scale. Published six times a year, it is available both in print and digitally, while the GHI website keeps readers regularly informed about the latest news and developments in the sector.
The success of Ground Handling International magazine has allowed the creation of a number of highly specialised and well-regarded annual conferences, as well as the launch of two sister aviation magazines.
Aiming to cater for the ramp in its widest context, Ramp Equipment News is now celebrating its eighth year of production. During this time we have adhered to the recipe that has proved successful, namely that of offering the magazine in both on-line and printed format, so that readers can benefit to the maximum.
The aviation sector still proves to be a challenging environment for those involved in it, whether in the sky or on the ground. Fuel spikes, labor concerns, bankruptcy and ever-increasing levels of competition are merely some of the ingredients in the mixture: overshadowing all this, though, is the ongoing recession that has obliged many within the business to look anew at their operating models.
Ramp Equipment News looks at all that is novel and new on the ramp and, where possible, questions received wisdom. After all, just because a procedure or format has been followed for years does not mean to say that it is the only acceptable method in attaining a pre-determined end. Thus the reader will find articles covering topics such as alternative power, the influence of IT at today’s airport, environmental issues, ramp safety practices, telematics and passenger processing, now and in the future. Time doesn’t stand still in this industry sector, and for that reason alone no two years’ content is ever the same.
Ramp Equipment News is also proud to be part of the industry’s new body, the International Airport Equipment Manufacturers’ Association, which is making its mark on the GSE sector.
To end on a publicity note, Ramp Equipment News will be distributed at major events in North America as well as elsewhere in the world, thereby giving you a chance to maximise your product’s exposure.
