Europe
Mitsubishi Electric Acquires Norway’s ALT Heis
Through wholly owned Swedish subsidiary Motum, Tokyo-based Mitsubishi Electric Corp. acquired all shares of Norwegian elevator company ALT Heis, Mitsubishi Electric announced on November 29. The move follows the 2023...
Lift & Escalator Symposium Issues First Call for Papers
Organizers of the 16th Symposium on Lift & Escalator Technologies, planned on September 24-25, 2025, at the Kettering Park Hotel & Spa in Kettering, U.K., have issued a first call for...
Access BDD Holds 2024 Annual Conference
Access BDD, one of the U.K.’s leading suppliers of stairlifts, platform lifts and home lifts, recently held its annual conference in Manchester. Employees from all over Europe attended the three-day...
Pias Peleteiro Appointed to Top TÜV SÜD Management Team
Paula Pias Peleteiro has been appointed to the top management team of TÜV SÜD Industrie Service GmbH. She will assume responsibility for the business areas of plant safety, energy and...
LEEA Awards 2024 Announced at “Biggest Yet” Event
The U.K.’s Lifting Equipment Engineers Association (LEEA) recently awarded the LEEA Awards 2024 at the world-famous Dorchester in London. In its sixth year, the event was proclaimed as “the biggest...
Sims4Lifts Named Finalist for UK Business Awards
Lift sim company Sims4Lifts has been recognized as a finalist for the prestigious UK Business Awards. Known as The Dons after author and journalist Don Hale, the UK Business Awards...
MP Lifts Hosts MP Open Days For U.K. And Ireland Professionals
MP Lifts organized the MP Open Days event for consultants, construction project managers and lift companies from the U.K. and Ireland. These seminars, held in Seville, Spain, in October, were...
Stannah Wins Network Rail Lift and Escalator Service Contract
Stannah, headquartered in Andover, U.K., announced it signed a new, potentially GBP50-million (US$63.7-million) five-year contract with Network Rail to service its lifts and escalators. Significantly, the contract includes escalator maintenance...
Bucher Hydraulics Acquiring Finland’s Hydman Oy
Bucher Hydraulics, the Germany-based global provider of innovative hydraulic drive and control technology for applications including elevators, announced on November 13 it is acquiring Hydman Oy, based in Tampere, Finland....
CEDES and FIELDBOSS Partner To Deliver IoT Elevator Solution
Swiss Internet of Things (IoT) pioneer and original elevator light curtain manufacturer CEDES and FIELDBOSS, the Microsoft-based field service platform for elevator contractors, on November 11, announced a "transformative" partnership....
