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Photo: © EdmoLift News | January 2026 The EN 1570 series is expanding EN 1570-1, Safety requirements for lifting tables – Part 1: Lifting tables serving up to two fixed landings has already been available since 1998. It has undergone continuous further development over the course of time.
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News | February 2019 Customized load pins for cargo lifts WEP-Weisshaupt and Zemic Europe have worked together to develop an overload detection system which can be integrated in their cargo lifts.
News | February 2019 Railoc: the solution for temporary protective rooms Aleatec is expanding its portfolio: apart from the enev-kit lift shaft smoke extraction system, the company is now marketing the electric protective room catch.
News | January 2019 HelpyGSM and LiftTelefoon GSM-9000 are all-in-one SafeSolutions GmbH wants to simplify things for its customers, "This is why we’ve created an emergency call telephone, mounted as a complete unit on the car roof."
News | January 2019 Linear measurement system for safe shaft copying Inspired by "everything under one roof", Kübler came up with the idea of marketing a new measurement system for safe, absolute shaft copying, together with its portfolio of encoders and bearingless encoders.
News | January 2019 Lift Group Kone is top employer For the second time in a row, Kone has been honoured by Forbes Business Magazine as one of the best employers in the world.
News | January 2019 New member of EFESME The Bulgarian Association of Lift Manufacturers (BALM) is a new member of EFESME.
News | January 2019 Innovative robotic system for elevators Schindler has announced the debut of its breakthrough Robotics Installation System for Elevators (R.I.S.E), with which it hopes to pave the way for greater automation and digitalization in the lift industry.
News | January 2019 Riedl Quantum: Complete lift into serial production The newly developed complete QUANT lift developed by Riedl Quantum can now be ordered from its designers after presentation of the prototype at the interlift 2017.
News | January 2019 EFESME: General Assembly and Lift Forum The last EFESME General Assembly and Board of Directors and the SBS Lift Forum on Digitalisation were held on the 18th of December 2018, at the SBS premises in Brussels.
