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: © Ziehl-Abegg / Rainer Grill News | January 2021 Trainee campaign wins double gold Ziehl-Abegg was honoured twice at the German Stevie Awards: once for the best CSR event and once for the best HR team. There were a total of 450 applications from Austria, Switzerland and Germany for the German Stevie Awards.
Photo: © Meiller News | January 2021 Modernising landing doors easily and efficiently Both lift builders as well as specialist planners and operators tend to avoid modernising landing doors. Meiller has now developed a new kind of concept.
Photo: © SCHAEFER GmbH News | January 2021 CANopen for lifts CANopen is an open communication standard, which is now supported by many lift components. The uniform application profile for lifts permits integrating components of different manufacturers into lifts, simply plug and play, directly on the building site.
Photo: © IGV Group News | January 2021 Design award for "On air" “On air”, the lift concept by the Italian company IGV Group, designed by Studio Marco Piva, has been awarded the “The Plan Award 2020” in the Industrial Design category of the international prize for contemporary architecture.
Photo: © GS electronic Gebr. Schönweitz GmbH News | January 2021 New flush-mounted control panel – extra thin As soon as EN 81-28 has been harmonised, lifts must be fitted with pictograms for emergencies. GS electronic has developed a flush-mounted control panel that can be retrofitted irrespective of the controller installed.
Photo: © Ruslan Sidorov/ iStock.com News | January 2021 BIM in lift technology: where to begin? Everyone is talking about digitalization. Fundamental changes are expected for the construction industry. How can a lift sector company get involved in this?
Photo: © alphaspirit /123rf.com News | January 2021 BIM in lift technology: a change of perspective “Digital twins” of lifts and buildings represent a new dimension of digitalisation – a challenge and opportunity for everyone who plans, constructs and operates lifts.
Photo: © Raloe News | January 2021 Lift manufacturer on growth course Raloe got to work after the interlift 2019: at the beginning of 2020, the manufacturer of complete lifts established a subsidiary for the sales region of the German-speaking countries and Denmark.
Photo: © Kone News | December 2020 Changes in the Kone Executive Board Tricia Weener, BA (Hons), has been appointed Chief Marketing Officer and Executive Vice President, Marketing and Communications, as of January 18, 2021. She will join the Kone Executive Board.