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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 | February 2021

Euro-Lift: One stop shop for the lift industry

The 6th Euro-Lift International Lifts and Components Exhibition is to be held in Kielce, Poland, on 28 and 29 April 2021. It was originally scheduled for October 2020, but in view of the Corona pandemic, the organizers had to postpone it.

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News | February 2021

New in the Group Executive Committee at Schindler

The Schindler Board of Directors has decided to appoint Sabine Simeon-Aissaoui as a member of the Group Executive Committee responsible for Escalators and Supply Chain with effect from January 1, 2021.

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News | February 2021

Team growth at Hauer

Since 1 December 2020, Daniel Westermann has been assisting in the strategic purchasing of Hauer.

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News | February 2021

Kübler: “Through the Corona crisis in a tidy manner”

Kübler Group records only a slight decline in revenues of around 2% in 2020. The subsidiaries in China and India as well as some larger OEM customers delivered growth.

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News | February 2021

GS electronic reinforces sales team

With immediate effect, Alexandra Brandes has reinforced the sales team of GS electronic. She has ten years of experience in emergency call and service control centre GSECCC of the company.

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News | January 2021

Schum: New head of technology

Martin Brey is the new head of technology at Johann Schum Aufzugtechnik.

News | January 2021

Blain with new location in China

Blain Hydraulics has opened a new presence in China. This opens up new opportunities to expand its footprint in the biggest elevator market in the world, the company says.

News | January 2021

IGV Group: New Sales Area Manager

Since September 2020, Mario Barlassina is the new Italy Sales Area Manager of IGV Group, a lift and lifting platform manufacturing company.

News | January 2021

Sensors: the backbone of predictive maintenance

Kübler encoders and shaft copying systems meet the conditions for predictive maintenance by facilitating signal transmission via a digital interface (e.g. BISS or CAN) to the cloud.

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Euro-Lift: One stop shop for the lift industry

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Team growth at Hauer

Kübler: “Through the Corona crisis in a tidy manner”

GS electronic reinforces sales team

Schum: New head of technology

Blain with new location in China

IGV Group: New Sales Area Manager

Sensors: the backbone of predictive maintenance