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News | January 2018

Great performance in a small space

Ziehl-Abegg has developed a new frequency converter, which permits the construction of space-saving switch cabinets for lifts.

News | January 2018

Easier mounting of lift ropes

End-customers continue to expect more and more from the lift industry. It is not just a question of standards and guidelines, such as the Operational Safety Ordinance, having to be observed.

News | January 2018

Celebrating 125 years of the escalator

The world’s first escalator was put into operation on January 16th, 1893 in New York – as a so-called “incline elevator”. The escalator’s 125th birthday is a great occasion for thyssenkrupp to celebrate.

News | January 2018

Standard-compliant and safe

Wieland Electric offers a wide range of products and solutions for elevator shafts and control cabinets in the field of lift and elevator technology.

News | January 2018

Under the spotlight at the Wittur Cube

The Wittur Group was among the key participants at the 2017 edition of Interlift, the world’s leading trade fair in the elevator industry, which gathered together a new record of 574 exhibitors from 48 countries.

News | January 2018

Lived sustainability

The lift industry is facing new challenges from the increasingly rapid pace of technical change. This is increasingly the case in relation to emergency call systems and their special fail-safe requirements.

News | January 2018

Innovative - intelligent - MiDrive

Can a lift door be intelligent? The Munich lift door specialist Meiller tackled this question at this year’s interlift – and presented the door drive concept of the future.

News | December 2017

Innovative, customised shaft wiring system

Weidmüller presented customised solutions for the elevator and escalator industry at "interlift2017" in Augsburg.

News | December 2017

When the stairs were still an elevator

The escalator, which has transformed our cities and our lives, was born 125 years ago – it’s time to look back at the beginnings of the technology.

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Great performance in a small space

Easier mounting of lift ropes

Celebrating 125 years of the escalator

Standard-compliant and safe

Under the spotlight at the Wittur Cube

Lived sustainability

Innovative - intelligent - MiDrive

Innovative, customised shaft wiring system

When the stairs were still an elevator