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: © Firmengruppe Max Bögl News | July 2021 Modular construction in the lift sector A new lift along with shaft – quickly installed: this is possible with a complete solution from one source, the Gen2 lift from Otis combined with the modular lift shaft from Max Bögl.
Photo: © Meiller Aufzugtüren News | July 2021 Easy and flexible solution for modernisation Every day, lifts transport millions of people, many of them for decades. In view of the immense number of trips that lifts complete over the course of time, ...
Photo: © Kerstin Offer, WDR News | July 2021 EMC problems due to lifts How can you ensure electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) in lifts in the susceptible environment of the Westdeutsche Rundfunk (WDR) broadcaster?
Photo: © AFAG News | July 2021 interlift 22: Over 80 percent of the space is already occupied Well over 300 elevator companies have now registered for interlift, and a good 80 percent of the available space has been booked. This is reported by the interlift trade fair organizer AFAG. There will be a kind of digital preview at the originally planned date in October 2021.
Photo: © Rocom Energie- und Kommunikationssysteme News | July 2021 Emergency call device now also with VoLTE The Helpy 2W-EWMS from Rocom is an emergency call device according to EN81.28 (2018), which offers not only emergency calls, but also extended surveillance and maintenance functions for Lift 4.0 applications.
Photo: © Hundt Consult News | July 2021 New partners at Hundt Consult Hundt Consult has reinforced its group of partners with Marcus Lehmann and Florian Stetter. They are co-founders of Lift Technology and Lift Innotec, both subsidiaries of Hundt Consult.
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.
