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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.

Photo: © Gefran

News | July 2021

New frequency converter for lift technology

Gefran has expanded its product portfolio in the field of lift technology with a new frequency converter series that is intended to cover a wide field of application and do justice to current industry demands.

Photo: © Ziehl-Abegg / Marc Weigert

News | July 2021

Ziehl-Abegg: 2020 as roller coaster ride

“2020 was like a roller coaster ride: border closures, material loss, collapse in sales and order increases all rapidly succeeded each other,” recalled Peter Fenkl from Ziehl-Abegg.

Photo: © Mahdis Mousavi, unsplash / istock / Montage

News | July 2021

The brave new world of the IT believers

Many people believe that IT-based solutions are an affordable way of being able to hand over their responsibility and solve problems.

Photo: © Hotel Savoy

News | July 2021

New coating for metallic surfaces

Aesthetics in lift building: the new CernoTex coating from Rimex Metals was developed to seal high quality steel designs.

Photo: © Ulrike Lotze

News | June 2021

Liftex 2022: Great exhibitor interest

Despite being 16 months out from the show, Liftex 2022 has sold 67% of its floor space in the first four weeks of booking.

ELA and Liftex 2019

Photo: © TK Elevator

News | June 2021

Stair lift wins Red Dot Award

The S200 stair lift of TK Elevator has won the Red Dot Award: Product Design 2021. Conceived by Business Unit TK Home Solutions and designed by Pearson Lloyd design studio.

Photo: © AFAG

News | June 2021

“We’ve been in crisis mode for over a year”

The postponement of the interlift has caused quite a stir. LIFTjournal talked to Henning Könicke, the managing director of the interlift organiser AFAG, about the background to this and the reactions of the industry.

News | June 2021

Langer & Laumann: Homepage in new look

After some “exciting and strenuous weeks involving technical, content and optical revision”, the new website of Langer & Laumann has been thoroughly modernised and renewed, the company reported.