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‘Modernisation, service and digitalisation are our growth drivers’

Alexander Vitt has been Managing Director of the DACH region at Kone since May 2024. In an interview with LIFTjournal, he talked about strategic priorities, the challenges in the new construction market, the role of digitalisation – and why Kone was focusing on partnerships and platform solutions in the long term.

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News | September 2021

Five prejudices against home lifts

Overpriced, cumbersome, unattractive – these are the adjectives that come to many people's minds when it comes to home lifts. A manufacturer of home lifts wants to dispel these prejudices.

Photo: © Kristian Schark / alcomtec aufzugsmanagement & -notruf GmbH

News | September 2021

All IP lift emergency call: Improved safety and less effort

Today, people in every walk of life and sector are talking about digitalisation. This also encompasses lift emergency calling.

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News | September 2021

The safety award goes to Niggemeier & Leurs

ArcelorMittal honours partner companies with outstanding occupational safety standards with its Safety Award. Originally planned for 2020, the award was made later due to the pandemic.

Photo: © Windscheid + Wendel

News | September 2021

An extraordinary lighting concept for a high street property

Hansen provided the lift builder Windscheid + Wendel, based in Düsseldorf (Germany), with LED technology for sophisticated lift car lighting for a property on the well-known local Königsallee promenade.

Photo: © Meiller Aufzugtüren

News | September 2021

Fast and dust-free landing door modernisation

The Munich door specialist, Meiller Aufzugtüren GmbH, recently presented its new modernisation concept for car doors. But Meiller has also developed a corresponding solution for landing doors.

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News | September 2021

What is my company’s value?

There are many myths regarding the market value of a lift manufacturer in the lift sector. The claim is often made that the service business is decisive. But it is actually far more complex than that.

News | September 2021

The special feature of the Wearwatcher are the algorithms

How far is the development of predictive maintenance? The fifth hardware generation of Henning's Wearwatcher is designed to detect actual component wear locally on the elevator – without connecting to the cloud.

News | August 2021

S+ presents new brand emblem

The Nuremberg family company Schmitt + Sohn Aufzüge has a new brand emblem, which is intended to form part of its “communicative digitalisation process.”

News | August 2021

New technologies on the way to series production

Raloe is currently deploying several new technologies at once They are expected to offer numerous advantages for elevator manufacturers and operators.

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Five prejudices against home lifts

All IP lift emergency call: Improved safety and less effort

The safety award goes to Niggemeier & Leurs

An extraordinary lighting concept for a high street property

Fast and dust-free landing door modernisation

What is my company’s value?

The special feature of the Wearwatcher are the algorithms

S+ presents new brand emblem

New technologies on the way to series production