Industry

thyssenkrupp Fleet Livery for Peugeot Partner Vans

Signage
Spain

The project

What we did

Client: thyssenkrupp
Sector: Industry
Area: Signage
Type of work: Fleets
Location: Spain

Livery for a large fleet of thyssenkrupp Peugeot Partner vans, on bodywork in the corporate blue. Each unit carries the logo and the company's service lettering: lifts, escalators and automatic doors. This is a run of dozens of vehicles liveried in exactly the same way, with the same distribution of elements between the side and the rear.

The challenge

When a fleet runs into dozens of units, the problem stops being the design and becomes repeatability: making sure unit number forty comes out identical to the first. Added to that is the contrast against dark blue, which means the type size of the service lettering has to be judged carefully so it reads at a distance.

Our solution

We fixed a set-out pattern dimensioned from fixed references on the Partner, the door shut line and the waistline, and prepared the plotter cutting in complete sets, numbered by unit, so that each vehicle entered the workshop with its own kit ready. The logo and lettering are high-contrast cut vinyl over the blue. The area was degreased and primed, positioned dry with a hinge tape, applied with a felt squeegee and heat-conformed over mouldings and handles.