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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Photo: © daniilpeshkov/123rf.com News | August 2021 “Those who can deliver make deals whatever the price” No sooner has the Corona crisis possibly been overcome than there is another crisis for companies to overcome: the lift sector is also struggling mightily with material shortages and raw material and component prices, which in part are going through the roof.
Photo: © Liftsymposium News | August 2021 Symposium talks freely available According to the Lift & Escalator Symposium, all of the talks of the previous symposia are now freely available in its online library.
Photo: © alexandersikov/123RF.com News | August 2021 EN 81-72 and 81-73 have been harmonised At the end of july the European standards for safety rules for the design and installation of fire brigade lifts as well as for behaviour of lifts in the event of fire were harmonised.
Photo: © Dmitry Kalinovsky/123rf.com News | August 2021 Lift modernisation – but when and how? When is the right time to modernise a lift? When does it make technical and economic sense? And what rules should be followed when doing so? This is what many operators – rightly – ask themselves.
Photo: © Bernstein News | August 2021 Gisela Bernstein to retire Gisela Bernstein passed on the torch of the Bernstein AG to the third generation on 1 July – her children Achim and Nicole Bernstein.
Photo: © bloodua/123RF.com News | August 2021 Order in the renovation of the Palais des Nations in Geneva Maspero Elevatori has won the manufacturing and modernization ot the lifts for the UN Headquarters in Geneva.
Photo: © Kone News | August 2021 Five Red Dot awards for Kone The jury of the Red Dot Awards honoured Kone five times: the company's access gate system “Kone Lane” won two prizes.
Photo: © Ascendor GmbH News | July 2021 Platform stair lift in the BIM database The Austrian lift company Ascendor has recently started providing BIM data for its platform stair lift PLG7.
Photo: © Orona News | July 2021 Orona defies the pandemic According to the company, Orona improved its market position in 2020 despite the pandemic and achieved turnover of 799 million euros. The cooperative revealed this at its virtual annual general meeting.