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News | March 2024

Wittur appoints new CEO

Wittur appoints Udo Aull as new Chief Executive Officer (CEO), effective immediately. Udo Aull succeeds Tom Stephenson, who will step down after more than 3.5 years as CEO.

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News | March 2024

Ziehl-Abegg recruits manager from Kuka

Wolfgang Mayer (50) has been the new technology director at Ziehl-Abegg since February. The graduate engineer had previously been employed for 27 years at Kuka, a provider of intelligent robotics, plant and system technology.

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News | March 2024

TK Elevator: Sales growth in service and modernisation

In its third full financial year of independence, the sales of TK Elevator rose FX-adjusted by 6 percent to €8.9 billion.

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News | March 2024

The Safety of older lifts in Sweden

During autumn 2023, the Swedish government decided on new legal requirements aimed at improving the safety of older lifts.

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News | February 2024

Growth in members at Next Group

Last year, the Next Group succeeded in adding seven new members from Australia, Germany, Sweden and Turkey, as reported by Volker Hager (Hydroware) at the Annual General Meeting at the end of November.

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News | February 2024

Rising interest rates, renovation compulsion and the lift sector

Currently, we have a situation in the real estate sector that has not existed in recent years and decades. ...

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News | February 2024

LIFTjournal: New member in the editorial advisory board

Boris Marjancevic joined the nine-member advisory board of the LIFTjournal at the beginning of the year.

News | February 2024

Stuck? Not at all!

LIFTjournal published a comment by Dr Peter Hug in its 5/23 issue. In it, the managing director of the Trade Association Lifts and Escalators in the VDMA described the parking space difficulties of many lift technicians.

News | February 2024

A grand seigneur of the lift sector takes his farewell

Wolfgang Adldinger was a serious player: for more than four decades, he worked in various lift sector companies – from SME to multinational. His many years of commitment to standardisation have been honoured worldwide.

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Wittur appoints new CEO

Ziehl-Abegg recruits manager from Kuka

TK Elevator: Sales growth in service and modernisation

The Safety of older lifts in Sweden

Growth in members at Next Group

Rising interest rates, renovation compulsion and the lift sector

LIFTjournal: New member in the editorial advisory board

Stuck? Not at all!

A grand seigneur of the lift sector takes his farewell