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: © kritchanut/123RF.com News | April 2022 What has changed since the interlift 2019? Two-and-a-half years have passed since the last interlift. Since then, the challenges for companies have increased enormously. First came the Corona pandemic, then the supply bottlenecks and price increases for material.
Photo: © VFA-Interlift e.V. News | April 2022 interlift: Forty specialist talks by international speakers The VFA-Forum interlift accompanying the interlift ’22 in Augsburg will feature more than 40 specialist talks.
Photo: © Bosch Service Solutions News | April 2022 Why the dual sense emergency call can do more The companies Bosch Service Solutions, Elfin Technology and Schaefer have developed a solution as part of a joint venture with which an existing audio emergency call device can be retrofitted as a new dual sense emergency call device.
Photo: © VFA-Interlift e.V. News | April 2022 interlift without Corona restrictions The interlift organisers are pleased: Since the pandemic emergency of national scope has been lifted for Germany as of April 2, the AFAG expects that the interlift 2022 can take place without any restrictions for exhibitors and visitors.
Photo: © B&M Noskowski, Aleksei_Derin / Getty Images / Montage/iStock.com News | April 2022 Intensive discussions regarding future cybersecurity standard The draft of Part 20 of the ISO 8102 series on cybersecurity of lifts and escalators was published recently. An article by Tim Ebeling in LIFTjournal 5/21 on this topic caused an intensive discussion between him and Max Mairle from TK Elevator on our website.
Photo: © tobrono/123RF.com News | April 2022 Thirty years in the service of the controller area network On 5 March 1992 the registered association CAN in Automation (CiA) was founded. Today, the association has over 700 members and has just submitted the third controller area network (CAN) generation for international standardisation.
Photo: © Hyundai Elevator News | April 2022 Hyundai Elevator appoints new CEO Hyundai Elevator appointed Cho Jae Chun, executive vice president of the elevator business division, as the company’s new CEO.
Photo: © pixabay / Fotomontage Ascendor News | April 2022 Digitalisation offensive at Ascendor Lifttechnik The Austrian lift builder Ascendor intends to meet the rising demand for barrier-free solutions: for this purpose, it has developed a new product configurator.
Photo: © Otis News | April 2022 Judy Marks elected as Chair The Otis Board of Directors has elected Judy Marks as its chair, effective February 3, 2022. Marks will also continue in her current role as President and Chief Executive Officer of Otis, a role she has held since June 2019.
