Photo: © privat News | April 2025 Kostas Papadopoulos: Job change after 15 years Kostas Papadopoulos has made a career change: He is now the new sales manager at Greek lift manufacturer Vigor Technology PC in Thessaloniki.
Photo: © zoff-photo/iStock News | April 2025 Routine call messages in lift emergency calls Routine call messages are an important part of the security architecture of emergency call systems in lifts. Their purpose is the early detection of malfunctioning emergency call systems. But how exactly do these messages work?
Photo: © Avire News | April 2025 New Country Sales Manager at Avire Avire has announced the promotion of Shawn Gabor to Country Sales Manager for the German-speaking countries and Eastern Europe. Avire is a provider of lift safety and communication products.
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).
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Photo: © Ulrike Lotze News | September 2020 Euro-Lift postponed Euro-Lift 2020 has now also postponed its event date. The elevator trade fair was originally scheduled to take place in Kielce, Poland, from October 14 to 15.
Photo: © Otis GmbH & Co. OHG News | September 2020 “Enhance safety with innovations” It all began with the invention of the crash-safe lift. Ever since the foundation of Otis in 1853, safety has come first.
Photo: © Arnolds News | August 2020 Arnolds to retire Klaus Arnolds is retiring. The first technician of the Westdeutsche Runfunk broadcaster was one of the co-founders of the LIFTjournal and was a member of its advisory board from the start.
Photo: © Thilo Schumann / CAN in Automation (CiA) e.V. News | August 2020 CiA board of directors re-elected The members of the nonprofit international CAN in Automation (CiA) users’ and manufacturers’ association re-elected the board of directors as well as the members of the CiA business committee and the CiA technical committee.
Photo: © Langer & Laumann News | August 2020 Otis door drive conversion solution developed In recent years, Otis has integrated various activation versions in its door controllers.
Photo: © N.L.C. NOVA LIFT News | August 2020 Solution for compact shafts Raloe has developed a complete lift that manages both with a shaft head height of 2400 mm and simultaneously with a pit depth of just 265 mm.
Photo: © mayr Antriebstechnik News | August 2020 Mayr: Commitment to climate protection Mayr Antriebstechnik from Mauerstetten (Germany) has been climate neutral since 2020. For this purpose, the mechanical engineering company relies on a wide catalogue of measures.
Photo: © Martin Schulze News | August 2020 Better adjustment of rope and drum In a current doctoral thesis at the Institute of Mechanical Engineering of TU Clausthal, a new approach has been developed on how to analyze the behaviour of ropes on multi-layer spooled rope drums and better adjusting the system components with each other.
Photo: © Zagro News | August 2020 Universally usable door drive The new Computec Door Drive 6 (CDD6) from Zagro is capable of universal use. It can operate DC motors with and without brushes up to 40V with or without encoder.