Photo: © KLST News | July 2026 Three questions to ... Markus Labruier Markus Labruier (54) has been the managing director of Detlef Klinkhammer Steuerungen und Komponente für Aufzüge (KLST) since 1 October 2025.
Photo: © LIFTjournal/Dirk Müller/KI-assistiert mit Firefly und ChatGPT News | July 2026 A wedding with strings attached The announcement of Kone’s takeover of TK Elevator has sent shockwaves through the industry. Suddenly, there is talk of a new mega-conglomerate, a potential shift in power within the service sector, and the fact that the wave of consolidation has now reached the Big Four themselves.
Photo: © Schmitt + Sohn News | July 2026 Schmitt + Sohn Aufzüge: Change in management The announcement has caused quite a stir: Schmitt + Sohn Aufzüge, one of the largest family-run businesses in the European lift industry, is restructuring its management. For the first time, an external managing director has also been appointed.
Photo: © TÜV Süd News | July 2026 “We don’t take our decisions in a vacuum” Jörg Becker has been the Chairman of the Coordination Group of the Accredited Inspection Bodies in Germany and as a result the successor of Dieter Roas for over a year.
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News | December 2019 100 years Osma – a lift family It is the sixth biggest lift company in Germany. The fourth generation is now at the helm and in 2019 it will be precisely 100 years old: we are of course speaking of Osma-Aufzüge Albert Schenk GmbH & Co. KG.
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.
