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News | December 2020

A cloud of their own for SMEs

In an interview with LIFTjournal, Rudolf Ramseier from the VFA board of directors announces a dedicated cloud for the SMEs. Read the full-length interview about digitalisation in SMEs here.

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News | December 2020

Breaking ground for new company headquarters

At the end of September, Serapid laid the foundation in Martin-Église in France for the “OneSerapid” project at the new location of the company in the Eurochannel II zone.

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News | December 2020

New employee at Langer & Laumann

Antje Holbein joined Langer & Laumann in mid-July. The 48-year old reinforces the sales back office.

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News | December 2020

Assa Abloy sells Cedes

The private equity investor capiton AG together with the management led by Cedes CEO Christian-Erik Thöny has bought the company from its previous owner, the Assa Abloy Group.

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News | December 2020

E300 frequency converter with CANopen

Control Techniques has now adopted the newly developed CANopen interface with the CiA417 user profile for the Elevator Drive E300 in its delivery range.

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News | December 2020

New software modules for the lift sector

Creative Software Team GmbH develops software for the lift sector. It has now brought out a new contractual and planning module, a maintenance app and an info portal.

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News | November 2020

New functions for service technicians from digitalisation

Meiller has expanded the user functions of MiDrive and the app for the diagnosic tool. The remote support tool has been further expanded and now offers additional video and audio recording.

News | November 2020

Kuhse Industrial Components: New head of design/development

Daniel Cohrs the new head of design/development for Kuhse Industrial Components GmbH. He will be primarily concerned with the development and design of customer-specific solutions.

News | November 2020

Automatic creation of lift drawings

Johann Schum Aufzugtechnik GmbH has issued a new version of the Marsdesigner, the calculation tool for the Mars product line, with which automated creation of lift drawings is possible.

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A cloud of their own for SMEs

Breaking ground for new company headquarters

New employee at Langer & Laumann

Assa Abloy sells Cedes

E300 frequency converter with CANopen

New software modules for the lift sector

New functions for service technicians from digitalisation

Kuhse Industrial Components: New head of design/development

Automatic creation of lift drawings