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: © Olivier Le Moal / Adobe Stock News | July 2022 A question of preparation How much is my own company worth? Owners ask themselves this question at the latest at the end of their career. What is clear is that those who make their assessment by the book often miss the mark by a wide margin - and potentially give away a lot of money.
Photo: © E2 Forum / Messe Frankfurt Exhibition GmbH News | July 2022 “Elevate your knowledge” – with the experts of the E2 Forum Innovation, digitalisation and sustainability – opportunities for buildings of today and tomorrow: the E2 Forum Frankfurt on 21 and 22 September 2022 will offer the latest knowledge on these topics.
Photo: © Brugg Lifting News | June 2022 New products from Brugg Lifting at interlift 2022 Brugg Lifting unveiled several new products and services at interlift 2022. The company aims to empower customers in this way to become technology leaders in the lift industry.
Photo: © Schmersal Böhnke + Partner News | June 2022 Schmersal Böhnke + Partner and View Elevator cooperation Schmersal Böhnke + Partner and the Austrian start-up View Elevator have agreed to cooperate in the worldwide distribution of their products for the lift industry.
Photo: © Acla-Werke News | June 2022 New generation of Acla Lift buffers "XL series" The new generation of Autan XL lift buffers from Acla-Werke offers significantly improved performance compared to previous buffer series.
Photo: © Schaefer Group News | June 2022 Too little, too late and too expensive… Two topics now dominate many discussions: the raw material/material shortage and price increases. LIFTjournal interviewed the deputy chairman of the VFA-Interlift and managing director of the Schaefer Group, Michael Gubisch, about this.
Photo: © Hauer News | June 2022 Spare part case with safety technology In cooperation with “Hauer the elevatorshop”, service technicians receive an “emergency case” with Bernstein products, which is intended to cover a multitude of conceivable deployments in the field: the Emergency Switch Case (ESC MMXXII).
Photo: © Ascendor GmbH News | June 2022 New version of the QuattroPorte Ascendor has further developed its shaftless lift QuattroPorte and launched version 5 with numerous new features.
Photo: © Meiller Aufzugtüren News | June 2022 Meiller: Pandemic phase used for new developments The Munich door specialist Meiller exploited the difficult phase of the Corona pandemic to engage in further development of solutions in the field of doors and tackle and implement ideas for new products.
