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Photo: © ALGI

News | March 2023

New online configurator by ALGI

ALGI made its online configurator available to lift companies, specialist planners and operators at the end of 2022. It permits pre-planning of lifts in existing shafts or in new installations.

Photo: © Stephan Zülch / Schlosserei Schiemann

News | March 2023

Steel shaft challenge

Existing buildings can usually only be converted to barrier-free buildings through lift shafts installed in the stairwell or courtyard. What counts is that the lift manufacturer is familiar with the challenges associated with a steel shaft.

Photo: © TK Elevator

News | March 2023

TK Elevator: Changes in the Management Board

After more than 30 years of service, Chief Operating Officer (COO) Field and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) for the Americas, Kevin Lavallee, has left TK Elevator for retirement.

Photo: © Bosch Service Solutions GmbH

News | March 2023

Emergency calls and lift management at a glance

Emergency call systems in lifts connected to an emergency system staffed round the clock are a legal requirement. If the lifts are supervised by a lift management company, they usually operate separately from this.

Photo: © Telegärtner Elektronik

News | March 2023

TGE Group: New Marketing Management

Odo Hake is the new marketing team head at the TGE Group. Hake has been working in marketing in the lift sector for 15 years.

Photo: © Apleona

News | March 2023

Apleona and Gegenbauer Group merge

Apleona and the Gegenbauer Group are merging. This creates real estate services firm with more than 40,000 employees across Europe, servicing a correspondingly large number of elevators and escalators. Annual sales amount to around 3.5 billion euros.

Photo: © Aphithana Chitmongkolthong, istockphoto.com

News | March 2023

Airborne noise emissions on the lift

Up to now, this series has above all dealt with structure-borne noise emissions. This article will discuss and examine airborne noise emissions, taking the requirements of DIN 8989 into account.

News | March 2023

interlift 2023: International joint stands on the advance

The coming interlift 2023 will once again be able to build on its pre-pandemic successes, even if it will not quite achieve the results of the most successful event to date in 2019, according to the press release of its organizer, AFAG.