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News | November 2020

Kuhse Industrial Components: New head of design/development

Daniel Cohrs the new head of design/development for Kuhse Industrial Components GmbH. He will be primarily concerned with the development and design of customer-specific solutions.

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News | November 2020

Automatic creation of lift drawings

Johann Schum Aufzugtechnik GmbH has issued a new version of the Marsdesigner, the calculation tool for the Mars product line, with which automated creation of lift drawings is possible.

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News | November 2020

Mourning Albrecht Hildebrandt

VFA-Interlift is mourning Albrecht Hildebrandt. He was a founder member of the association, member since 1987 and from 1997 to 2000 deputy chairman of the VFA-Interlift. He died on 16 October, aged 85.

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News | November 2020

A different look at lift emergency calls

The relevant ordinances, directives and standards formulate the requirements for lift emergency call systems. But there is also the receiver side!

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News | November 2020

Lift industry: “We need good people”

The skilled labour shortage in the lift sector is a constantly recurring topic. Has the Corona crisis changed anything about it? What are its causes? We asked Andreas Hönnige about this.

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News | November 2020

Hydroware: with IoT into the future

The modernisation package for hydraulic lifts from Hydroware works with the latest technology: this includes a high resolution interface – perfectly adapted to smartphones and tablets.

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News | November 2020

Set-up your valve with your mobile

The world becomes increasingly connected. That enable companies to redesign products as IoT devices to have Smart Solutions and remain competitive. Blain Hydraulics make use of the IoT technology and evolved the existing EV4-vvvf into the Smart-EV40-vvvf solution.

News | November 2020

New Global Industry Manager at Kübler

At the beginning of March 2020 Yasin Bayrakli had taken over responsibility for the elevator technology division at Kübler as Global Industry Manager.

News | November 2020

Up please: the door opener for the home lift market

Piconorm has developed a complete home lift. New Lift not only supplies the home lift controller ECO for the Piconorm Avanza, but also an app with which the home lift can be controlled via mobile devices.

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Kuhse Industrial Components: New head of design/development

Automatic creation of lift drawings

Mourning Albrecht Hildebrandt

A different look at lift emergency calls

Lift industry: “We need good people”

Hydroware: with IoT into the future

Set-up your valve with your mobile

New Global Industry Manager at Kübler

Up please: the door opener for the home lift market