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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Photo: © Bode News | January 2023 Bode overspeed governors UKCA-certified Bode has received UKCA certification for its speed governor from TÜV Süd.
Photo: © Dolgachov/123RF.com News | January 2023 Six errors regarding standardisation Thomas Wollstein is a “standardiser” – and has been for about 30 years. Boring, you say? That is one of the many errors regarding standardisation.
Photo: © Gustav Wolf News | January 2023 Gustav Wolf: new management team Henning Seffers recently became the worldwide chief sales officer (CSO) at Gustav Wolf GmbH in Gütersloh (Germany).
Photo: © zsv3207/123RF.com News | December 2022 The six most common errors when looking for skilled workers The skilled labour shortage, demographic change and lack of children: a “perfect storm”. This is especially true when the rather unknown lift sector and its suppliers are looking for skilled employees.
Photo: © Hissmekano News | December 2022 HissMekano opens a warehouse in Germany HissMekano, Scandinavian supplier of spare parts for lifts, is expanding its business in Germany. The Stockholm-based company will open a warehouse in Niedernhausen, Germany, in the middle of the Rhine-Main area.
Photo: © Yaskawa News | December 2022 New LA500 AC frequency inverter for lift applications The new LA500 compact AC drive for lift applications delivers maximum travel comfort thanks to its new features and reliability. This compact drive is simple and easy to integrate into existing lifting systems, which helps save time and costs during installation.
Photo: © klss/123RF.com News | December 2022 Open standards for cloud communication The moment when the CANopen-Lift standard became established in the lift sector at the beginning of the millennium was a milestone. This meant the different components of different manufacturers had now found a common language with which they could communicate with each other. But what happens when the data leave the lift?
Photo: © TK Elevator News | December 2022 TK Elevator to cut 500 jobs at German plant 500 of the 800 jobs at TK Elevator's German lift plant in Neuhausen are to be cut within the next two years. The company speaks of a "realignment" of the lift plant, the local Esslingen chapter of the trade union IG Metall calls it a "watershed moment".
Photo: © Hydroware News | December 2022 Styrbjörn Andrén joins Hydroware Starting in January 2023, Styrbjörn Andrén will join Hydroware as Head of Products and Learning. He should mobilise the company for its coming expansion.
