Photo: © Kone News | September 2026 Kone: two new members in the Board of Directors At the Extraordinary General Meeting of Kone on 3 June, Ranjan Sen and Bruno Schick were elected as new members of the Board of Directors.
Photo: © Dirk Müller, KI-assistiert / LIFTjournal News | September 2026 The concentration process in the European lift industry continues The consolidation process in the European lift industry is continuing: Alongside the Finnish-German mega-deal of Kone and TK Elevator, other cross-border takeovers and mergers have taken place in Europe. Here a selection of these.
Photo: © Langer + Laumann News | September 2026 Conversion package for Varidor 15 Mechanically fully compatible and completely without drilling: Langer + Laumann have added a new conversion package for the door drive system Varidor 15 from Schindler to their product range.
Photo: © Dirk Müller/KI-unterstützt/LIFTjournal News | September 2026 CANopen Lift specification updated The four-part CiA 417 application profile specification for lift control systems has been revised.
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Photo: © Ziehl-Abegg News | September 2020 CANopen Lift car drive units If you design lifts using devices from different manufacturers, interoperability is essential. This keeps effort low when integrating third-party products. Especially, standardized interfaces for car drive units would help.
Photo: © Ulrike Lotze News | September 2020 Euro-Lift postponed Euro-Lift 2020 has now also postponed its event date. The elevator trade fair was originally scheduled to take place in Kielce, Poland, from October 14 to 15.
Photo: © Otis GmbH & Co. OHG News | September 2020 “Enhance safety with innovations” It all began with the invention of the crash-safe lift. Ever since the foundation of Otis in 1853, safety has come first.
Photo: © Arnolds News | August 2020 Arnolds to retire Klaus Arnolds is retiring. The first technician of the Westdeutsche Runfunk broadcaster was one of the co-founders of the LIFTjournal and was a member of its advisory board from the start.
Photo: © Thilo Schumann / CAN in Automation (CiA) e.V. News | August 2020 CiA board of directors re-elected The members of the nonprofit international CAN in Automation (CiA) users’ and manufacturers’ association re-elected the board of directors as well as the members of the CiA business committee and the CiA technical committee.
Photo: © Langer & Laumann News | August 2020 Otis door drive conversion solution developed In recent years, Otis has integrated various activation versions in its door controllers.
Photo: © N.L.C. NOVA LIFT News | August 2020 Solution for compact shafts Raloe has developed a complete lift that manages both with a shaft head height of 2400 mm and simultaneously with a pit depth of just 265 mm.
Photo: © mayr Antriebstechnik News | August 2020 Mayr: Commitment to climate protection Mayr Antriebstechnik from Mauerstetten (Germany) has been climate neutral since 2020. For this purpose, the mechanical engineering company relies on a wide catalogue of measures.
Photo: © Martin Schulze News | August 2020 Better adjustment of rope and drum In a current doctoral thesis at the Institute of Mechanical Engineering of TU Clausthal, a new approach has been developed on how to analyze the behaviour of ropes on multi-layer spooled rope drums and better adjusting the system components with each other.
