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: © AndreyPopov / iStock.com News | November 2020 Lift industry: “We need good people” The skilled labour shortage in the lift sector is a constantly recurring topic. Has the Corona crisis changed anything about it? What are its causes? We asked Andreas Hönnige about this.
Photo: © Hydroware News | November 2020 Hydroware: with IoT into the future The modernisation package for hydraulic lifts from Hydroware works with the latest technology: this includes a high resolution interface – perfectly adapted to smartphones and tablets.
Photo: © Blain Hydraulics News | November 2020 Set-up your valve with your mobile The world becomes increasingly connected. That enable companies to redesign products as IoT devices to have Smart Solutions and remain competitive. Blain Hydraulics make use of the IoT technology and evolved the existing EV4-vvvf into the Smart-EV40-vvvf solution.
Photo: © Kübler News | November 2020 New Global Industry Manager at Kübler At the beginning of March 2020 Yasin Bayrakli had taken over responsibility for the elevator technology division at Kübler as Global Industry Manager.
Photo: © Piconorm News | November 2020 Up please: the door opener for the home lift market Piconorm has developed a complete home lift. New Lift not only supplies the home lift controller ECO for the Piconorm Avanza, but also an app with which the home lift can be controlled via mobile devices.
Photo: © Yaskawa News | November 2020 Via simulation to the matching converter How will the converter behave in real operation? What sequences have to be run in the application and what converter type is appropriate? What happens in the event of overload?
Photo: © GFT / Robert Weise-Prüß News | November 2020 Small companies also have good prospects Good employees are hard to find; the lack of skilled employees in the lift sector is a major problem. There is probably no ready-made solution for this. But there are companies that manage this problem better than others.
Photo: © European Lift SME Congress News | October 2020 First European Lift SME Congress For the first time, lift SMEs across Europe will meet on 18 and 19 November in an online platform equipped with simultaneous interpreting, to talk about the present and future of SMEs in the European framework.
Photo: © Leibniz Universität Hannover / Marie-Luise Kolb News | October 2020 Frequency converter in the Einstein elevator Physical and production-related experiments for applications in outer space, on the moon or even on Mars: what sounds like science fiction could soon become real.
