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‘Modernisation, service and digitalisation are our growth drivers’

Alexander Vitt has been Managing Director of the DACH region at Kone since May 2024. In an interview with LIFTjournal, he talked about strategic priorities, the challenges in the new construction market, the role of digitalisation – and why Kone was focusing on partnerships and platform solutions in the long term.

News | April 2018

New Filler two for EsCare

Damage to the ribs of escalators frequently results in the entire system coming to a standstill during routine maintenance work.

News | April 2018

Smart door drives

Wherever people are on the go, Langer & Laumann ensure that they can get ahead quickly. Compact and architecturally integrated, Langer & Laumann open all kinds of lift doors with their door drives.

News | April 2018

interlift: World’s leading trade fair with top scores

The international lift industry will get together once again in Augsburg from 15 to 18 October 2019.The review of the interlift 2017 is gratifying: it was the most successful since the premiere in 1991.

News | April 2018

Access solutions: thank goodness for radio

Doors as well as locks are among the things we use every day. Even if they seem at first glance to many to be unspectacular and in part inconspicuous, they often have an important function:

News | April 2018

On the way up

If we are to believe what experts from the CTBUH (Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat) are telling us, the future of building technology is going to rise to new heights.

News | April 2018

New control stations for the toughest conditions

The Italian company Pizzato Elettrica presented two new control stations at interlift 2017 in Augsburg.

News | April 2018

Investing in homelifts

Etna France, familiar under its export brand name EtnaLift, invented the lift for private households in 1986 and the private lift with direct hydraulic drive in 2008.

News | April 2018

Women in the Lift Industry in Europe

Five years of professional life in the lift business in Germany brought up the plan to look into the topic of women in the lift industry in Europe.

News | April 2018

Escalators: Adjustment of standards and guidelines

EN 115-1 “Safety of escalators and moving walks – Part 1: Design and Installation” was revised by the responsible European working group and published by CEN in July 2017 in the English reference edition.

‘Modernisation, service and digitalisation are our growth drivers’

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New Filler two for EsCare

Smart door drives

interlift: World’s leading trade fair with top scores

Access solutions: thank goodness for radio

On the way up

New control stations for the toughest conditions

Investing in homelifts

Women in the Lift Industry in Europe

Escalators: Adjustment of standards and guidelines