Custom Products, Specific Solutions

ICM Lift Components offers a variety of specialized systems.

by Roberta Cosso

ICM Lift Components of Trento, Italy, boasts 40 years of experience in the elevator industry. It actively operates in three continents and four markets: Europe, Southeast Asia, the Middle East and Australia. Its main products are metal shafts for lifting applications, home lifts and goods lifts. ICM invests into research and innovation to create customized products and specific solutions. Its engineers and technicians work with its production team to follow projects from beginning to end. In the last 15 years, ICM has also developed a range of products, including customized elevators, home lifts and dumbwaiters for luxury yachts. This has allowed the company to establish itself in the marine elevator market for yacht installations.

Metal Shafts

Metal shafts are suitable for elevators and home lifts and can be installed either indoors or outdoors. Their differences lie in their sheet-metal treatment. In indoor applications, a steel profile with RAL powder coating is utilized. Outdoor installations use the same profile treated with a hot galvanizing; then, it is protected against corrosion with a second treatment of powder painting with RAL colors. The design is studied and manufactured to provide the best possible longevity and performance in accordance with EN 1090.

Home Lifts

ICM’s home lifts are in compliance with the Machinery Directive, Directive 2006/42/EC, with a speed of 0.15 m/s or with the standard EN 81-41 regulation for the models on which such regulation is applicable. They can be installed in spaces as narrow at 600 mm in either hydraulic or electric traction configuration. The former uses a 2:1 piston that allows travel up to 20.5 m. The control panel and hydraulic pump unit can be supplied in a metal cabinet as an option and located next to the shaft or within 8 m of the shaft. The electric traction system is roped 1:1 and allows travel up to 18 m through a small gear in the headroom atop the guide rails. 

Two configurations are available. First is manual (hold to run) with hinged landing doors and no cabin doors, or with swing doors (at landing) and folding doors (in the cabin). (The former meets EN 81-41, if requested.) Second is a fully automatic version with sliding landing and cabin doors.

Goods Lifts

Goods lifts are often intelligent solutions for small companies as alternatives to elevators. Like its home lifts, ICM’s goods lifts comply with Machinery Directive 2006/42/EC, with a speed of 0.15 m/s intended for short travels and limited daily use. This solution uses a hydraulic traction design with control panel and pump unit to be located near the shaft. The maximum capacity load is 2,000 kg, and it is manufactured to carry both goods and persons, or goods only.

A goods elevator is primarily sold with two door configurations. First is with hinged landing doors and a light-curtain barrier for cabin protection and hold-to-run operation. The second option is fully automatic with automatic sliding doors. This product is intended for industrial use and can be customized if necessary.

Conformance and Standardization Participation

All the products manufactured comply with current regulations and norms, such as EN 1090 for steel structural components that are Conformité Européene marked, per by European Union (EU) Regulation No. 305/2011, EN 1090-1 and Machinery Directive 2006/42/EC. It is also in conformity with EN 81-41, where applicable, for the home lift.

ICM has active and direct involvement in the standardization processes, both at the national level with UNI (Italian national standards body) and at the European level in European Committee for Standardization (CEN)/TC 10 working groups.