Photo: © Henning Stauch News | September 2024 New managing director at Kone DACH Alexander Vitt replaced Erik Kahlert as managing director for the region of Germany, Austria and Switzerland (DACH) at Kone on 1 May 2024.
Photo: © THOR Industriemontagen GmbH & Co. KG News | September 2024 Danger of falling while working on lifts Work on lifts is frequently carried out at heights above one metre. From a height of more than 100 cm, there is a risk of severe injuries in the event of a fall. What must an employer take into account?
Photo: © Langer & Laumann News | September 2024 Update for the L&L TSG V4 400 lift door drive Langer & Laumann offers more than 500 different conversion kits for the repair or modernisation of lift doors. An update has now been launched: the TSG V4 400 lift door drive for Rathgeber wire ropes.
Photo: © Elevcon News | September 2024 Who wants to speak at Elevcon 2025? The next Elevcon will take place from 17 to 19 June 2025 in Lisbon (Portugal). Anyone interested in giving a talk there: The organisers have extended the abstract submission deadline from 15 to 30 September.
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News | January 2017 Low investment – lots of energy saved In lift shafts inside the thermal envelope warm air flows through the gaps of the landing doors into the shaft. Reinforced by the chimney effect, it escapes to the outside uncontrolled through the smoke vent opening. Considerable heat losses and high heating costs are the consequence.
News | January 2017 Flat belts for efficiency Otis recently sold the 500,000th unit of the Gen2 model. The ropes used in conventional lifts have been replaced by flat belts here. This creates more travel comfort, greater reliability, more economic operation and increased energy efficiency.
News | January 2017 Success for Euro-Lift The 4th Euro-Lift 2016, the international trade fair of the lift industry, took place in Kielce in central Poland. A total of 108 exhibitors presented their products to almost 2000 interested visitors.
News | January 2017 Honored with horizontal transportation solutions ThyssenKrupp has been presented with the "Project of the Year” award by Elevator World, for its innovative iwalk moving walks installed at Prince Mohammad bin Abdulaziz Int. Airport in Madinah (Saudi Arabia).
News | January 2017 Everything under control: machine-to-machine networks The desire for remote control and monitoring of machinery and systems is growing continually. There are many different reasons for this, such as increasing availability, cutting costs or expanding new service business models.
News | January 2017 Parking place at a dizzy height The Hamilton Scotts Apartments are one of the best residential addresses the city-state of Singapore has to offer.
News | January 2017 Exhilaration of height We live in a world of superlatives. Cars and trains are supposed to get ever faster, people live ever longer and skyscrapers get higher and higher. There are to be no exceptions – including lifts.
News | January 2017 interlift 2017: Continuity as success factor The interlift 2015 was the biggest one so far. With 540 exhibitors, 20,440 visitors and 42,500 m² of occupied space it was able to set three new records. These will probably already be history in 2017.
Photo: © Kone / Christian Augustin News | October 2015 The arched escalators of the Elbe Philharmonic Hall They are unique in form and technology: the arched escalators of the Hamburg Philharmonic Hall which will be handed over to the guests in October 2015. From November 2016 they are to transport the members of the audience to the "Plaza” viewing platform. From here there is a fascinating view of Hamburg, the harbour and the Elbe. The overall complex will open in January 2017.