Photo: © Elevcon News | April 2025 Elevcon: “Heads, ideas and innovations” The next Elevcon Congress is planned for 17 to 19 June 2025 in Altis Grand Hotel in Lisbon (Portugal).
Photo: © Motum News | April 2025 Motum makes a Norwegian acquisition Mitsubishi Electric has once again strengthened its position on the European market. It has taken over the Norwegian lift company Alt Heis via its Swedish subsidiary Motum.
Photo: © Lift & Escalator Symposium News | April 2025 Early bird and first Call for Papers The 16th Symposium on Lift & Escalator Technologies in UK will take place on 24-25 September 2025. Registration is now open and the organisers have issued the first Call for Papers. Until 30 June an early bird rate of £360 is available.
Photo: © Langer & Laumann News | April 2025 New conversion package for Schindler Varidor 35 Langer & Laumann has expanded its product range: a new conversion package for the Schindler Varidor 35 is now available.
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Photo: © WhitneyLewisPhotography/iStock.com News | March 2024 The Safety of older lifts in Sweden During autumn 2023, the Swedish government decided on new legal requirements aimed at improving the safety of older lifts.
Photo: © Next Group News | February 2024 Growth in members at Next Group Last year, the Next Group succeeded in adding seven new members from Australia, Germany, Sweden and Turkey, as reported by Volker Hager (Hydroware) at the Annual General Meeting at the end of November.
Photo: © rdonar/123RF.com News | February 2024 Rising interest rates, renovation compulsion and the lift sector Currently, we have a situation in the real estate sector that has not existed in recent years and decades. ...
Photo: © LIFTjournal / Bernd Lorenz News | February 2024 LIFTjournal: New member in the editorial advisory board Boris Marjancevic joined the nine-member advisory board of the LIFTjournal at the beginning of the year.
Photo: © Schindler Deutschland / Alexander Knetsch News | February 2024 Stuck? Not at all! LIFTjournal published a comment by Dr Peter Hug in its 5/23 issue. In it, the managing director of the Trade Association Lifts and Escalators in the VDMA described the parking space difficulties of many lift technicians.
Photo: © LIFTjournal / Bernd Lorenz News | February 2024 A grand seigneur of the lift sector takes his farewell Wolfgang Adldinger was a serious player: for more than four decades, he worked in various lift sector companies – from SME to multinational. His many years of commitment to standardisation have been honoured worldwide.
Photo: © Nürnberg Messe / Heiko Stahl News | February 2024 “Great interest in interlift 2025” The number of registrations for interlift 2025 was already high at the end of 2023, reports organiser AFAG. It will take place from 14 to 17 October 2025 – for the first time at the new location in Nuremberg.
Photo: © Hohner Automation News | February 2024 Hohner commemorated its 40th anniversary Hohner Automation, headquartered in Breda, Spain, is an international family-owned business specialized in the manufacturing of incremental and absolute encoders, linear measurement systems and rotary actuators.
Photo: © Alimak News | February 2024 New lift for harsh industrial environments The Swedish manufacturer Alimak has launched the rack and pinion elevator SE 240L. It is designed for installation on silos, storage vessels, and cranes.