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News | November 2020

Mourning Albrecht Hildebrandt

VFA-Interlift is mourning Albrecht Hildebrandt. He was a founder member of the association, member since 1987 and from 1997 to 2000 deputy chairman of the VFA-Interlift. He died on 16 October, aged 85.

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News | November 2020

A different look at lift emergency calls

The relevant ordinances, directives and standards formulate the requirements for lift emergency call systems. But there is also the receiver side!

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News | November 2020

Lift industry: “We need good people”

The skilled labour shortage in the lift sector is a constantly recurring topic. Has the Corona crisis changed anything about it? What are its causes? We asked Andreas Hönnige about this.

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News | November 2020

Hydroware: with IoT into the future

The modernisation package for hydraulic lifts from Hydroware works with the latest technology: this includes a high resolution interface – perfectly adapted to smartphones and tablets.

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News | November 2020

Set-up your valve with your mobile

The world becomes increasingly connected. That enable companies to redesign products as IoT devices to have Smart Solutions and remain competitive. Blain Hydraulics make use of the IoT technology and evolved the existing EV4-vvvf into the Smart-EV40-vvvf solution.

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News | November 2020

New Global Industry Manager at Kübler

At the beginning of March 2020 Yasin Bayrakli had taken over responsibility for the elevator technology division at Kübler as Global Industry Manager.

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News | November 2020

Up please: the door opener for the home lift market

Piconorm has developed a complete home lift. New Lift not only supplies the home lift controller ECO for the Piconorm Avanza, but also an app with which the home lift can be controlled via mobile devices.

News | November 2020

Via simulation to the matching converter

How will the converter behave in real operation? What sequences have to be run in the application and what converter type is appropriate? What happens in the event of overload?

News | November 2020

Small companies also have good prospects

Good employees are hard to find; the lack of skilled employees in the lift sector is a major problem. There is probably no ready-made solution for this. But there are companies that manage this problem better than others.

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Mourning Albrecht Hildebrandt

A different look at lift emergency calls

Lift industry: “We need good people”

Hydroware: with IoT into the future

Set-up your valve with your mobile

New Global Industry Manager at Kübler

Up please: the door opener for the home lift market

Via simulation to the matching converter

Small companies also have good prospects