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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News | July 2018 High speed Test Tower in China Thyssenkrupp has opened a test tower in Zhongshan City, Guangdong Province, China. At the opening ceremony, the test tower stole the show.
News | July 2018 Red-glowing giant at night The biggest free-standing escalator at the former coal mine ‘Zeche Zollverein’ in Essen is not only beautiful, but also very popular: every year, it transports over 600,000 visitors on the world cultural heritage site.
News | July 2018 Tetsuya Horimoto named new managing director To better cover the Japanese market, the Schmersal Group has established an independent subsidiary in Japan. Tetsuya Horimoto has been named managing director of the new Schmersal Japan KK.
News | July 2018 New modules and changes in the Elevator Portal With the Elevator Portal of the Liwitec GmbH it is now possible also to calculate the bending drill buckling of the guide rails using the FEM.
News | June 2018 No more false SOS Calls The Digicom company presents their first lift camera. Based on customers’ reports, in 10% of SOS calls nobody answers to the operator.
News | June 2018 Invertek Drives: Strengthening the US team Invertek Drives, has announced it is strengthening its presence in North America with a new US headquarters near Chicago.
News | June 2018 Multi-talents for service and modernisation Schaefer has supplemented four switch and display styles with new versions. The elements referred to by the brief, inconspicuous name affix "MOD" are genuine multi-talents.
News | June 2018 General Data Protection Regulation: you have to act! The EU General Data Protection Regulation entered into force on 25 May 2018. It imposes heavy fines for non-observance. Companies have to act.
News | June 2018 Made in Germany: the home lift kit Thanks to the patented 6:1 linear axis drive and a remote control ECO controller, lift builders can benefit from the home lift growth market.
