Photo: © Kuebler Group News | December 2025 Farewell to Erika Kübler Erika Kübler, the wife of the company founder Fritz Kübler, passed away on 4 September 2025 at the age 94, according to the Kübler Group.
Photo: © Funtap/shutterstock/okapidesign News | December 2025 The latest news from the world of standards DIN EN 81-41 is now available and the Technical Committee CEN/TC10 “Lifts, escalators and moving walks” has published the draft of EN 81-28:2024. The most important changes.
Photo: © TK Elevator / Philip Schwarz News | December 2025 TKE inaugurates its “Product Competence Center” TK Elevator (TKE) held a big ceremony in Esslingen to open its new centre for lift technology. Research and development are to be bundled with the production of the latest lift technology on a site of 33,000 m2. This also accommodates a completely digitalised logistics centre.
Photo: © Clemenspool–eigenes Werk News | December 2025 EN 81-76: The practical application of the new standard In part 1 of this article series described the functionality of a lift according to EN 81-76:2025. The second part deals with its practical application and the prerequisites for a suitable lift configuration.
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Photo: © Aphithana Chitmongkolthong, istockphoto.com News | November 2022 Reduction of prestressing force in screw fittings The last article in this series considered the areas of use of elastic bearings. This one deals with professional mounting.
Photo: © Oxonox News | November 2022 Cold plasma to keep lifts and escalators virus free The British company Oxonox says it will unveil the world’s first cold plasma lift and escalator innovations.
Photo: © ratmaner / okapidesign/123RF.com News | November 2022 The biggest crisis: the shortage of skilled labour Delivery bottlenecks, shortages of skilled labour and enormous energy price increases – these crises also affect the lift sector, states Peter Zeitler, Managing Director of New Lift, in an interview with LIFTjournal.
Photo: © Meiller Aufzugtüren News | November 2022 Intelligent solutions save time and personnel Products, especially components in the lift, are subject to constantly changing market circumstances. The changed market needs bring interesting new solutions to the market.
Photo: © Guido Schwarz News | November 2022 Successors take over IBB Fördertechnik Maximilian Meierhofer and Michael Reichelt have been the managing partners of IBB Fördertechnik since 1 June.
Photo: © Ascendor News | October 2022 Ascendor lifts immediately with Thermotür With immediate effect, the Austrian lift producer Ascendor is offering thermally insulated doors for buildings for the product groups car lift QuattroPorte, vertical lift UnaPorte, vertical platform lift PLV9 and shaft lift PL/KL 10.
Photo: © Kübler 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.
Photo: © Bernstein 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).
Photo: © Kone 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.
