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News | February 2020

Door business taken over

The Siepe GmbH & Co. KG in Hallenberg has taken over the door business of Hütter-Aufzüge at the end of 2019.

News | February 2020

thyssenkrupp: "Intelligent" spare parts warehouse

thyssenkrupp Elevator inaugurate its first smart spare parts warehouse for elevator maintenance and repair in Madrid. With this the company intends to improve service for customers in Spain, Portugal and Italy.

News | February 2020

Moving out + moving in = moving

More customers, more challenges, more colleagues - for Langer & Laumann the time had come for more space: since the beginning of 2020, the company has been based in new premises in Steinfurt.

News | February 2020

Albert Schenk – an interview with LIFTjournal

2019 has been a special year for him: Osma celebrated its 100th anniversary and he himself his 70th. Albert Schenk talked about private and personal milestones and challenges in an interview with LIFTjournal.

News | January 2020

LIFTlex advertising in India

LIFTlex’s success story has a new chapter: after representatives of the Indian lift trade fair IEE Expo discovered the trade dictionary for the lift sector while attending interlift 2019, they were so enthusiastic they placed a direct order.

News | January 2020

Energy-saving system for smoke extraction

The smoke and heat extraction and ventilation specialist Aumüller Aumatic presented the BTR Lift-Smoke-Free (LSF), an energy-saving system for smoke extraction and ventilation of lift shafts, at the interlift.

News | January 2020

Robots communicate with lifts

thyssenkrupp Elevator has unveiled a new robot interface platform in the USA that permits delivery service within buildings.

News | January 2020

New door controller for maintenance and monitoring

Siemens presented Sirius and Sidoor product family applications for lifts and escalators at the interlift. Special emphasis was placed here on the new Sidoor AT40 CAN ADV door controller.

News | January 2020

Cable trends for lift building: everything in place!

Whereas in the past switches in the car had to be laboriously wired individually with relays in the control cabinet, modern time-saving bus systems have long since ruled the roost.

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Door business taken over

thyssenkrupp: "Intelligent" spare parts warehouse

Moving out + moving in = moving

Albert Schenk – an interview with LIFTjournal

LIFTlex advertising in India

Energy-saving system for smoke extraction

Robots communicate with lifts

New door controller for maintenance and monitoring

Cable trends for lift building: everything in place!