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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.

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News | January 2023

Gustav Wolf: new management team

Henning Seffers recently became the worldwide chief sales officer (CSO) at Gustav Wolf GmbH in Gütersloh (Germany).

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News | December 2022

The six most common errors when looking for skilled workers

The skilled labour shortage, demographic change and lack of children: a “perfect storm”. This is especially true when the rather unknown lift sector and its suppliers are looking for skilled employees.

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News | December 2022

HissMekano opens a warehouse in Germany

HissMekano, Scandinavian supplier of spare parts for lifts, is expanding its business in Germany. The Stockholm-based company will open a warehouse in Niedernhausen, Germany, in the middle of the Rhine-Main area.

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News | December 2022

New LA500 AC frequency inverter for lift applications

The new LA500 compact AC drive for lift applications delivers maximum travel comfort thanks to its new features and reliability. This compact drive is simple and easy to integrate into existing lifting systems, which helps save time and costs during installation.

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News | December 2022

Open standards for cloud communication

The moment when the CANopen-Lift standard became established in the lift sector at the beginning of the millennium was a milestone. This meant the different components of different manufacturers had now found a common language with which they could communicate with each other. But what happens when the data leave the lift?

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News | December 2022

TK Elevator to cut 500 jobs at German plant

500 of the 800 jobs at TK Elevator's German lift plant in Neuhausen are to be cut within the next two years. The company speaks of a "realignment" of the lift plant, the local Esslingen chapter of the trade union IG Metall calls it a "watershed moment".

News | December 2022

Styrbjörn Andrén joins Hydroware

Starting in January 2023, Styrbjörn Andrén will join Hydroware as Head of Products and Learning. He should mobilise the company for its coming expansion.

News | December 2022

Kübler Group growing in difficult environment in 2022

Despite high energy prices, rising costs for raw materials, logistics chains and inflation, Kübler Group also achieved rising turnover figures in the current financial year.

News | December 2022

Brexit deadline extended

European companies will get two more years before they have to use the new UKCA marking for the introduction of products to the United Kingdom. Grant Shapps, the British secretary of state for business, announced this in mid-November.

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Gustav Wolf: new management team

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HissMekano opens a warehouse in Germany

New LA500 AC frequency inverter for lift applications

Open standards for cloud communication

TK Elevator to cut 500 jobs at German plant

Styrbjörn Andrén joins Hydroware

Kübler Group growing in difficult environment in 2022

Brexit deadline extended