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: © Peters Research News | June 2022 Lift and Escalator Symposium will be held in person The 13th Lift & Escalator Technologies Symposium will take place on 21 - 22 September 2022 in Northampton. It will be held in person and online.
Photo: © Conta-Clip News | June 2022 New managing director at Conta-Clip Jörg Nowastowsk-Stock has been the new managing director sales and marketing of Conta-Clip since March this year.
Photo: © KW Aufzugstechnik News | June 2022 KWeb: digital added value for all concerned KW Aufzugstechnik has for some time now been fitting its controllers as standard with gateways and an LTE network connection.
Photo: © LIFTjournal News | June 2022 AFAG: "Run on the interlift 2023" The interlift organiser AFAG reports unusually strong interest in the interlift 2023: "The team cannot remember a run like the current one for the interlift 2023," it says in a recent press release.
Photo: © Bode Components News | June 2022 New management at Bode Components Uwe Wiemer and Volker Trein have formed the new management team at Bode Components in Dusseldorf since the beginning of March.
Photo: © Natali_Mis/iStock News | May 2022 Company succession planning: the earlier the better! Planning one’s own succession is one of the most important tasks of all for family entrepreneurs and SME owners, for whom the long-term existence of their life’s work and their employees are close to their hearts.
Photo: © Motum News | May 2022 Mitsubishi acquires Motum On 7 April 2022, it was announced that Mitsubishi Electric Corporation has entered into an agreement to acquire 100% of the shares in Motum AB. The deal has now been approved by the Swedish Competition Agency and has therefore been closed.
Photo: © Orona News | May 2022 Orona: Growth in difficult times Orona's sales in 2021 increased by 4.1% year-on-year €832 million. The cooperative's order intake grew for the fourth year in a row. This numbers were presented during Oronas annual Partners’ Meeting, held in person in the Anoeta velodrome.
Photo: © Schindler Deutschland News | May 2022 Fast and innovative: modular design lifts Time is always short on building sites. Schindler Germany hopes to provide genuine added value with a new assembly method, which the company developed in cooperation with Menzel Beton-Bausysteme.
