Photo: © wrightstudio/123RF.com News | May 2025 A strong brand makes a difference A clear brand identity not only strengthens a company but also its employees and customers. This also applies to small and medium-sized lift manufacturers.
Photo: © Elsco News | May 2025 Elsco: New European Sales Manager Elevator Safety Company (Elsco) has announced the appointment of Hicham Chamseddine Naamani as its new European Sales Manager. Elsco is an international provider of elevator roller and swivel guides.
Photo: © KLST News | May 2025 “We were looking for a strong partner” The LIFTjournal once again has three questions: In view of recent events, the person we’re talking to this time is Detlef Klinkhammer, founder and managing director of “Detlef Klinkhammer Steuerungen und Komponenten für Aufzüge” (KLST), based in Zülpich near Cologne.
Photo: © VmA News | May 2025 VmA Board of Directors re-elected Udo Niggemeier has been confirmed in his office as Chairman of the Association of SME Lift Companies (Vereinigung mittelständischer Aufzugsunternehmen - VmA). The 59-year old has been heading the association since 2021.
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Photo: © TK Elevator News | March 2024 TK Elevator: Sales growth in service and modernisation In its third full financial year of independence, the sales of TK Elevator rose FX-adjusted by 6 percent to €8.9 billion.
Photo: © WhitneyLewisPhotography/iStock.com News | March 2024 The Safety of older lifts in Sweden During autumn 2023, the Swedish government decided on new legal requirements aimed at improving the safety of older lifts.
Photo: © Next Group News | February 2024 Growth in members at Next Group Last year, the Next Group succeeded in adding seven new members from Australia, Germany, Sweden and Turkey, as reported by Volker Hager (Hydroware) at the Annual General Meeting at the end of November.
Photo: © rdonar/123RF.com News | February 2024 Rising interest rates, renovation compulsion and the lift sector Currently, we have a situation in the real estate sector that has not existed in recent years and decades. ...
Photo: © LIFTjournal / Bernd Lorenz News | February 2024 LIFTjournal: New member in the editorial advisory board Boris Marjancevic joined the nine-member advisory board of the LIFTjournal at the beginning of the year.
Photo: © Schindler Deutschland / Alexander Knetsch News | February 2024 Stuck? Not at all! LIFTjournal published a comment by Dr Peter Hug in its 5/23 issue. In it, the managing director of the Trade Association Lifts and Escalators in the VDMA described the parking space difficulties of many lift technicians.
Photo: © LIFTjournal / Bernd Lorenz News | February 2024 A grand seigneur of the lift sector takes his farewell Wolfgang Adldinger was a serious player: for more than four decades, he worked in various lift sector companies – from SME to multinational. His many years of commitment to standardisation have been honoured worldwide.
Photo: © Nürnberg Messe / Heiko Stahl News | February 2024 “Great interest in interlift 2025” The number of registrations for interlift 2025 was already high at the end of 2023, reports organiser AFAG. It will take place from 14 to 17 October 2025 – for the first time at the new location in Nuremberg.
Photo: © Hohner Automation News | February 2024 Hohner commemorated its 40th anniversary Hohner Automation, headquartered in Breda, Spain, is an international family-owned business specialized in the manufacturing of incremental and absolute encoders, linear measurement systems and rotary actuators.
