Photo: © tomas maly/tg services News | February 2026 LACS protocol offers the opportunity for an open standard The lift industry needs a common, open IP alarm protocol. The European Lift Association (ELA) has created an important basis for this.
Photo: © Nordic Lift Expo/Björn Delin News | February 2026 Nordic Lift Expo: 80 per cent already booked Applications from exhibitors to take part in the third Nordic Lift Expo have reached a new record, with 80 per cent of the exhibition space already booked nine months ahead of the event, according to the organisers of the Scandinavian expo.
Photo: © LEIA News | February 2026 LEIA appoints Laura Webb as new Managing Director The Lift and Escalator Industry Association (LEIA) has appointed Laura Webb as its new Managing Director.
Photo: © Elevator Forum News | February 2026 Elevator Forum 2026: Sustainable modernisation The Elevator Forum series of events will continue this year. The meetings take place every two years and, according to the participating companies, aim to position themselves as a ‘centre of excellence for the lift industry’.
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News | December 2019 Exclusive interview: The plans of the new Wittur CEO Why did Wittur shut down LM Liftmaterial a short time before the interlift? This is one of the questions Antoine Doutriaux, new CEO of Wittur Group, comments on in an exclusive interview with the LIFTjournal.
News | December 2019 omnicon engineering taken over At the end of October, Schmersal Holding GmbH & Co. KG took over omnicon engineering GmbH, based in Kirkel-Limbach (Saarland, Germany).
News | December 2019 Cibes appoints managing director Germany Cibes Lift Group established Cibes Lift Deutschland GmbH in autumn 2018. The group has now appointed Jaschar Mahmoudian as managing director.
News | November 2019 Digital transformation: now it’s up to the SMEs! Company groups and larger enterprises have taken note of this development and are working on solutions. But the small and medium-sized companies (SMEs) in the lift industry currently lack the resources for this.
News | November 2019 Emergency call systems: present and future From the provider point of view, lifts and emergency call systems are just a "niche". VoLTE is only now gradually becoming standard. The Swiss company Leitronic is already providing easy ways to retrofit.
News | November 2019 Inovance takes over BST BST has merged with Monarch, the lift division of Inovance, in order to form a business platform for lifts for worldwide production and R&D. The aim is to create a world leader in lift controller solutions.
News | November 2019 So that the controller can continue to do its work... Classic remote data transmission from serial interfaces is on the way out due to the conversion of telephony (land lines and mobile communications) to package-oriented technology.
News | November 2019 New: frequency inverters especially for lifts Gefran presented its new series of ADL500 inverters for elevator technology for the first time at this year's Interlift.
News | November 2019 E2 Forum Mumbai premiere Representatives of the lift and escalator industry and players from the real estate sector in India got together for the debut event of the E2 Forum in Mumbai.
