Photo: © okapidesign News | May 2025 New “Aufzugshop Frano Witt” online The new webshop “Auzugshop Frano Witt” opened its digital doors. The ‘Liftshop’ promises to fundamentally change the way experts order lift parts.
Photo: © Sarai Olivier News | May 2025 Sector meeting in Dublin The Irish Lift and Escalator Association (ILEA) invited sector representatives from Europe, the United Kingdom and Ireland to Dublin at the end of February.
Photo: © privat News | May 2025 New convenor of Working Group 1 Daniel Bisang (52) has been elected unanimously as the new convenor of the working group 1 “Lifts and service lifts” of CEN TC 10.
Photo: © Telegärtner Elektronik GmbH News | May 2025 Michael Puttrus goes to Telegärtner Michael Puttrus has assumed a new position: the mechanical engineer is now Business Development Manager at the German lift emergency call specialist Telegärtner Elektronik.
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Photo: © TK Elevator News | April 2025 Change of leadership at LEIA Karis Walker, Head of Commercial at TK Elevator, has been appointed President of the Lift and Escalator Industry Association (LEIA), and Andrew Renwick, MD at Caltech Lifts, as Vice-President.
Photo: © okapidesign / Frei nutzbar gemäß Adobe Firefly-Lizenz News | April 2025 Practical implementation of the testing of firefighting lifts When a fire breaks out, the emergency services must be able to rely on the firefighting lifts working without any flaws. But in practice, there are considerable safety deficits in the operation of these lifts. The following points must be considered in practice when testing.
Photo: © VFA-Interlift News | April 2025 Cobianchi: change in the top management Stephan Rohr (48), up to December 2024 CTO at Elgo Batscale AG, assumed the management of Cobianchi Liftteile AG in January 2025. Rudolf Ramseier (59) will remain Chairman of the Management Board.
Photo: © Ziehl-Abegg News | April 2025 New Vice President Operations Central Europe In addition to his previous tasks, Sebastian Wohlleben has assumed the position of Vice President Operations Central Europe.
Photo: © Henning Scheffen / TÜV Nord AG News | April 2025 When lift inspectors talk to themselves The first lift inspectors at TÜV Nord now have the support of AI (artificial intelligence) during their work. From now on, the specialists will document defects during inspections by voice entry and no longer as before on the computer.
Photo: © generiert mit Dall.e News | April 2025 Cyber security in practice: Don’t crack a nut with a sledgehammer! The subject of cyber security did not just suddenly become a topic of conversation in the lift sector upon the entry into force of ISO 8102-20:2022, published in August 2022. The problems and tasks associated with the subject are indeed not new.
Photo: © VFA-Interlift News | March 2025 Retirement of Volker Lenzner The VFA-Interlift is saying goodbye to a longstanding companion. Volker Lenzner, who worked as the overall coordinator of the VFA-Akademie for many years, has retired.
Photo: © Liftex News | March 2025 Registration opens for Liftex 2025 The British lift trade fair Liftex will be opening its doors from June 11 to 12, 2025. It only takes place every three years and will be held for the 37th time this year. The seminar programme is now also finalised.
Photo: © osma GmbH & Co. KG News | March 2025 osma specialises in residential construction osma has now presented the residential lift “osma 1”. It was developed especially for the requirements of residential construction and forms part of the new strategic alignment of the Osnabrück company.
