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News | August 2026

New Machinery Regulation will also affect lifts under the Lifts Directive

The last issue of the LIFTjournal reported extensively on the new contents of the Machinery Regulation, which replaces the Machinery Directive. In the meantime, an official letter of the European Commission and an Information Note of the ELA regarding this matter have become available.

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News | August 2026

Mourning the loss of Günter Horny

Günter Horny passed away on 29 July 2026 at the age of 76, reported the VDMA Lifts and Escalators Association in an obituary:

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News | August 2026

Protective framework for TKE employees

TK Elevator (TKE) and the German trade union Industriegewerkschaft (IG) Metall signed a process agreement a few weeks ago. This is intended to protect employees against negative consequences of the takeover by its competitor Kone.

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Photo: © LIFTjournal/Dirk Müller/KI-assistiert mit Firefly und ChatGPT

News | August 2026

From conveyance device to digital system

The lift has undergone a fundamental change in recent years. What used to be primarily a mechanical-electrical conveyance device is now a networked, data-generating and in part self- optimising system.

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News | June 2017

Tailor-made light

This year, hansen, the producer of lighting solutions, will be presenting its products for the second time at the interlift trade fair in Augsburg.

News | June 2017

Trip in caisson

Lifts for passenger and goods transports? Commonplace. Car lifts? Used to reach parking spaces in parking garages and residential blocks. And ships?

News | June 2017

Orona increases revenues

Orona, the Basque Company specialized in urban mobility solutions headquartered in Hernani, approved its 2016 financial statements at its Annual General Meeting.

News | June 2017

Emergency unlocking for door locks

New requirements will be binding for the installation height of emergency unlocking for lift doors from 1.9.2017. New regulations will then also apply to the unlocking of the shaft door from the pit ladder.

News | June 2017

Born in the depths

Other lift manufacturers test their installations in towers. Kone tests its new technologies in the (still active) Tytyri mine in Lohja in Finland, just 50 km as the crow flies from Helsinki.

News | June 2017

Averting the rolling danger

Some people are afraid to travel by lift, but the self-evident trip on the escalator is far more dangerous, warn Dekra experts.

News | June 2017

Experts for ideas made of plastic

Ascending a thousand metres with a lift: what sounds futuristic will become reality with a new kind of lift strap made of carbon fibre and plastic.

News | May 2017

Environmental certificate for the door producer

The Munich door manufacturer Meiller Aufzugtüren GmbH has been able to take receipt an environmental certificate for the first time. This was preceded by an audit by an accredited environmental assessor.

News | May 2017

Customisable service portfolio

Flexible and transparent: with immediate effect a customisable service portfolio is available from Kone Care that enables customers to combine various options related to lift maintenance with each other.

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