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: © 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.
Photo: © iStock / Boris Zerwann 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.
Photo: © Henning GmbH & Co. KG 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.
Photo: © Schmitt + Sohn Aufzüge 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.”
Photo: © Wittur 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.
Photo: © ELA News | August 2021 Information note about ISO 8100-1 and ISO 8100-2 A new information note was now prepared by a Task Group "ELA/CEA" composed of lift experts from the European Lift Association (ELA) and lifts experts from China Elevators Association (CEA).
Photo: © TK Elevator News | August 2021 TK Elevator: Changes in the Management Board Dr. Philipp Voet van Vormizeele will succeed retiring Dr. Detlef Hunsdiek in the position as CHRO.
Photo: © daniilpeshkov/123rf.com News | August 2021 “Those who can deliver make deals whatever the price” No sooner has the Corona crisis possibly been overcome than there is another crisis for companies to overcome: the lift sector is also struggling mightily with material shortages and raw material and component prices, which in part are going through the roof.
