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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 | October 2022

New Sales Manager at the Kübler Group

Michael Weingrill is the new Sales Manager for the D-A-CH area at the Kübler Group. The 39-year-old engineer has been with the company since 2016, before which he was Sales Manager at Kübler Austria.

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News | October 2022

Bernstein: new managing director in China

Jan Aßmann is the new managing director of Bernstein Safe Solutions – a Chinese subsidiary of the Bernstein AG in Porta Westfalica (Germany).

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News | October 2022

Kone: New Vice President

Joe Bao has been appointed Executive Vice President, responsible for the Greater China region and member of the Executive Board as of 8 October 2022.

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News | October 2022

How to sell your company successfully

If internal family succession is not an option, selling the company may make sense as an alternative. To ensure such a project succeeds, many aspects have to be taken into account before implementation.

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News | October 2022

New CEO at Ziehl-Abegg SE

The Ziehl-Abegg SE Supervisory Board has appointed Dr Marc Wucherer as the new CEO. The 52 years old will take over his new position in December 2022.

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News | October 2022

No end to the new standards …

In the last issue, LIFTjournal presented the new draft standards in the EN 81 series. Further important changes have occurred in the regulatory framework: five standards have now been revised and published.

News | October 2022

Updated “Blue Guide” published

The guideline for the implementation of the product rules of the EU 2022 (“Blue Guide”) was published on 29 June 2022 in the Official Journal C 247 of the European Union.