Mr. Sayedur Rahman Choudhury was the first Managing Director of the company, who started his career in this sector by completing his Mechanical Engineering in 1975. Mr. Sayedur Rahman Choudhury started his own company, "Challenger Elevator and Escalator Ltd." in 1990, having been the sole agent of IGV Lifakonts from Italy. His experience in this industry totals 45 years.
Apart from having a very experienced and qualified owner, Challenger boasts a team full of experience and qualification. We have a high-profile technical team dealing with the maintenance and installation of the lifts. Even the junior executives have reasonable work experience and minimum a diploma in engineering. Both the installation and maintenance team are led by top managers, who have been loyal to this organization for a minimum of 20 years and holding educational certificates from top public universities in Bangladesh. In order to ensure prompt back up service to lifts under free maintenance / maintenance contract, we always keep adequate ready stock of spare parts, out of which fast moving spare parts are kept in head office and all branch offices, while slow moving parts are kept in our store at Dhaka, total area of which is over 5500 sft.
Moving on to the Marketing and Sales team, it is led by our Director, Mr. Gazi Kamrul Hasan, who is having an MBA degree from Newport University, Bangalore, India, has also been in this industry for the past 21 years. His experience and market recognition are parallel to none.
Challenger Elevator & Escalator Ltd. is a premier engineering and service company in Bangladesh, specializing in the installation, modernization, and maintenance of high-performance elevators and escalators. We deliver international standards of safety and efficiency to residential, commercial, and industrial sectors.
Every component we install undergoes strict testing to meet global safety benchmarks, ensuring absolute peace of mind for passengers.
Our highly skilled engineering team is always on standby to provide rapid support, routine checkups, and genuine spare parts.
Challenger Elevator & Escalator Ltd. is proud to be the exclusive Sole Agent of IGV Group in Bangladesh. Established in 1966 in Milan, Italy, IGV is a global pioneer in designing and manufacturing premium, custom-made vertical transportation systems. Representing European engineering excellence, IGV is renowned worldwide for its bespoke luxury lifts, advanced structural engineering, and innovative DomusLift series.
Through this exclusive partnership, Challenger brings authentic Italian luxury, sophisticated aesthetics, and unparalleled safety standards directly to high-end residential, commercial, and architectural masterpieces across Bangladesh, ensuring full compliance with European EN 81 safety regulations.
As an Official Importer and Authorized Partner, Challenger delivers the highly advanced corporate solutions of Guangri Elevator to the Bangladeshi market. Spanning over decades of market leadership and high-tech manufacturing facility, Guangri is one of the most prominent modern elevator giants, combining Japanese industrial collaboration with robust high-capacity performance.
Challenger imports Guangri's world-class passenger lifts, panoramic observation lifts, smart escalators, and heavy-duty cargo elevators. Equipped with energy-efficient permanent magnet synchronous (PMSM) gearless traction machines and cutting-edge VVVF drive systems, these lifts are engineered for optimum performance, high building traffic efficiency, and heavy structural durability.
Number of Projects
Number of Lifts
Number of Gov. Projects
Number of Gov. Lifts