Photo: © Aleatec News | January 2025 Final version of the VDI 6211 published The finale version of the VDI 6211 guide-line on “Ventilation installations and installations to extract smoke from lifts and lift shafts” was published in October 2024.
Photo: © Adobe Photoshop generiert News | January 2025 Smart Readiness Indicator: an explanation and estimation The Smart Readiness Indicator (SRI) rates the smart readiness of buildings or building units. Member States are now invited to contribute to the optional pilot testing of the SRI.
Photo: © KONE GmbH News | January 2025 Kone takes over two companies Kone Germany has taken over two lift companies – one in southern Germany and one in the federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate.
Photo: © Digital Spine News | January 2025 Aufzugshelden: the story continues In mid-August, Digital Spine – better known as "Aufzugshelden" (lift heroes) – filed for bankruptcy. But the story is set to continue: the Berlin-Charlottenburg district court, which is responsible for the case, is said to have approved managing director Simon Vestner's restructuring plan.
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News | January 2018 Celebrating 125 years of the escalator The world’s first escalator was put into operation on January 16th, 1893 in New York – as a so-called “incline elevator”. The escalator’s 125th birthday is a great occasion for thyssenkrupp to celebrate.
News | January 2018 Standard-compliant and safe Wieland Electric offers a wide range of products and solutions for elevator shafts and control cabinets in the field of lift and elevator technology.
News | January 2018 Under the spotlight at the Wittur Cube The Wittur Group was among the key participants at the 2017 edition of Interlift, the world’s leading trade fair in the elevator industry, which gathered together a new record of 574 exhibitors from 48 countries.
News | January 2018 Lived sustainability The lift industry is facing new challenges from the increasingly rapid pace of technical change. This is increasingly the case in relation to emergency call systems and their special fail-safe requirements.
News | January 2018 Innovative - intelligent - MiDrive Can a lift door be intelligent? The Munich lift door specialist Meiller tackled this question at this year’s interlift – and presented the door drive concept of the future.
News | December 2017 Innovative, customised shaft wiring system Weidmüller presented customised solutions for the elevator and escalator industry at "interlift2017" in Augsburg.
News | December 2017 When the stairs were still an elevator The escalator, which has transformed our cities and our lives, was born 125 years ago – it’s time to look back at the beginnings of the technology.
News | December 2017 Review of successful trade fair appearance Langer & Laumann from Nordwalde was represented with a trade fair stand at interlift 2017. More and more regular Langer & Laumann customers came to the stand just to find out about the latest developments.
News | December 2017 VDI 2566 or DIN 4150 as basis for analysis? Whether reference should be made to VDI 2566 or DIN 4150 as basis for evaluating the transmission of structure-borne sound/oscillations in buildings or not is normally decided in favour of DIN 4150 "Vibrations in buildings."
