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: © erhui1979/istock News | May 2022 New trends in search machine optimisation Search machines like Google change the algorithms for evaluating Internet pages several times a year. But how can companies from the lift sector improve their position in search machines with this knowledge?
Photo: © Quatronix GmbH News | May 2022 Modular remote lift monitoring retrofitting The Q-Bold is a new diagnosis box, which retrofits the remote monitoring feature in existing lifts.
Photo: © Cedes News | May 2022 New VP Special Projects at Cedes Patrick Bass is the new Vice President Special Projects and technical consultant at the Cedes Group. The position has been newly created – the engineer will work in the USA.
Photo: © Schmersal News | May 2022 First UKCA certificate for Schmersal TÜV Rheinland has issued the first certificate for the inspection of the solenoid interlocks AZ300, AZM300 and AZM300-AS of Schmersal, according to the UKCA requirements.
Photo: © Ziehl-Abegg News | April 2022 Ziehl-Abegg: New sales director drive technology Oliver Vahsen is now in charge of sales for the drive technology segment at Ziehl-Abegg. The qualified engineer has more than ten years of sales experience at the motor manufacturer based in Künzelsau (Germany).
Photo: © LEEA News | April 2022 Looking forward to LiftEx 2022 in Aberdeen The Lifting Equipment Engineers Association (LEEA) is joining the lifting industry in looking forward to the return of the LiftEx Exhibition in the UK, which will be held on 5-6 October 2022 at P&J Live in Aberdeen.
Photo: © Kone News | April 2022 Kone: New Executive Vice President Karla Lindahl has been appointed Executive Vice President, responsible for the South Europe and Mediterranean region and member of the Executive Board as of 1 April 2022.
Photo: © T-Press News | April 2022 Greek elevator fair restart The 2nd Trade Fair/Convention Ascen.tec – Elevator Technologies will take place in Athens in June 2022, announced the organizer T-Press.
Photo: © Petr Jilek News | April 2022 Comment: It remains exciting in the industry... Just a moment ago, we thought that the pandemic and the omnipresent climate crisis had led to the greatest possible distortions on the energy and raw materials markets and that the situation would soon ease.
