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News | November 2022

Cold plasma to keep lifts and escalators virus free

The British company Oxonox says it will unveil the world’s first cold plasma lift and escalator innovations.

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News | November 2022

The biggest crisis: the shortage of skilled labour

Delivery bottlenecks, shortages of skilled labour and enormous energy price increases – these crises also affect the lift sector, states Peter Zeitler, Managing Director of New Lift, in an interview with LIFTjournal.

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News | November 2022

Intelligent solutions save time and personnel

Products, especially components in the lift, are subject to constantly changing market circumstances. The changed market needs bring interesting new solutions to the market.

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News | November 2022

Successors take over IBB Fördertechnik

Maximilian Meierhofer and Michael Reichelt have been the managing partners of IBB Fördertechnik since 1 June.

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News | October 2022

Ascendor lifts immediately with Thermotür

With immediate effect, the Austrian lift producer Ascendor is offering thermally insulated doors for buildings for the product groups car lift QuattroPorte, vertical lift UnaPorte, vertical platform lift PLV9 and shaft lift PL/KL 10.

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News | October 2022

New Sales Manager at the Kübler Group

Michael Weingrill is the new Sales Manager for the D-A-CH area at the Kübler Group. The 39-year-old engineer has been with the company since 2016, before which he was Sales Manager at Kübler Austria.

Photo: © Bernstein

News | October 2022

Bernstein: new managing director in China

Jan Aßmann is the new managing director of Bernstein Safe Solutions – a Chinese subsidiary of the Bernstein AG in Porta Westfalica (Germany).

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News | October 2022

Kone: New Vice President

Joe Bao has been appointed Executive Vice President, responsible for the Greater China region and member of the Executive Board as of 8 October 2022.

News | October 2022

How to sell your company successfully

If internal family succession is not an option, selling the company may make sense as an alternative. To ensure such a project succeeds, many aspects have to be taken into account before implementation.

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Cold plasma to keep lifts and escalators virus free

The biggest crisis: the shortage of skilled labour

Intelligent solutions save time and personnel

Successors take over IBB Fördertechnik

Ascendor lifts immediately with Thermotür

New Sales Manager at the Kübler Group

Bernstein: new managing director in China

Kone: New Vice President

How to sell your company successfully