Germany
TKE’s New Brand Identity Wins Two Red Dot Awards
Since February 2021, newly identified TK Elevator (TKE) of Düsseldorf, Germany, has presented itself as a leading global provider of elevators and escalators under its new brand identity and design....
TKE Reorganizes Communications, Marketing Department
Düsseldorf, Germany-based TK Elevator (TKE), has reorganized its Communications and Marketing department, the global company announced in October, a move that installed four key executives. Dr. Anahid Rickmann was named...
Berlin Renovation Features Wood-Encased Escalators
Architecture firm OMA has completed the first quadrant of its masterplan and renovation of the Kaufhaus Des Westens (KaDeWe) department store in Berlin, Designboom reports. The project, launched in 2016, saw the transformation of a 90,000-m2 historic building into...
Market Updates: Germany and Austria
A look at each country’s economic situation and the impact on their VT sectors The German elevator industry has weathered the COVID-19 crisis well so far but is increasingly threatened...
TK Elevator Announces Changes To Management Board In Germany
TK Elevator (TKE) has announced two new changes to its management board in Germany, effective October 1. Dr. Phillip Voet van Vormizeele will succeed Dr. Detlef Hunsdiek, who is retiring,...
Germany’s Kubler Group Achieves Record Turnover
Elevators are among industries "feeling a revival," according to Villingen-Schwenningen, Germany-based Kübler Group Managing Director of Sales and Marketing Martin Huth. This revival helped usher in a successful first quarter...
92 Otis Escalators Part of Munich Metro Modernization
Through 2026, Otis Germany will install 92 heavy-duty NPETM escalators at 18 stations of the Munich Metro, bringing the number of escalators the OEM has supplied to the system since 1985...
Ingenuity by Design
The evolution of an elevator handrail installation system is detailed in this Company Spotlight. A machinist by trade, Hans Joachim Lindemann of Selingenstadt, Germany, created the first sketches of what...
Skyline Plus “ONE”
High rise under construction in Frankfurt, Germany, uses KONE high-performance elevators. ONE office and hotel tower by investor and developer CA Immo, 190 m tall, 49 stories high and standing...
Elevator Technology in the Time of the Coronavirus
Standards-focused Heilbronn Lift Days has hundreds turn out despite early pandemic effect. Due to the first signs of the coronavirus pandemic, only about 200 of the 300 registered participants attended...
