Photo: © Orona Niederlande News | November 2026 Orona buys two Dutch lift builders The Dutch subsidiary of the Spanish lift group Orona has taken over the UP company group. It was part of the portfolio of the investment company Karmijn Kapitaal.
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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.