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 | May 2017 Symposium: The new and the tried-and-tested The Schwelm Symposium in June, the long-standing lecture event of the lift industry, now also has the LIFTjournal as a new media partner.
News | May 2017 Moving story (-ies) from Valparaíso It clatters and creaks, shakes and grinds. Older passengers sit on a bench in the shaking car while next to them others stand closely packed.
News | May 2017 Yaskawa among “Top 100 Global Innovators” Founded in 1915, Yaskawa Electric is one of the pioneers in the fields of drive technology, industry automation and robotics.
News | May 2017 Starting shot for the Schindler campus Schindler Germany is going to expand its company headquarters in Berlin in the next few years. The starting signal for the project was given in the presence of the district mayor, Angelika Schöttler.
News | April 2017 New managing director of KEB Automation KG KEB has shaken things up in the drive and automation industry with a new face. Curt Bauer has been in charge as the new managing director since the beginning of the year.
News | April 2017 Schmersal: New top manager for Asia Schmersal Group has named Uwe Seeger as Director Asia-Pacific-Middle EAST (APME).
News | April 2017 Small expense – big effect Whether cranes, centrifuges or lifts: where a braking resistor is replaced and the excess energy generated is to be fed back into the grid, the R1000 Yaskawa regenerative unit is an especially efficient solution.
News | April 2017 Kone Germany with new top management Kone Germany has new management: Erik Kahlert became the chairman of the board of management on 1 March 2017 of Kone GmbH with its headquarters in Hanover.