Switzerland
SOM Partners With Swiss Company To Develop Renewable Energy-Storing Skyscraper
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), the Chicago-based architecture and engineering firm behind some of the world's tallest towers — including NYC's One World Trade Center, Chicago's Willis Tower and the...
ELA Renews Board Members During Annual Conference In Istanbul
The European Lift Association (ELA) renewed all board members during its General Assembly at the Annual Conference in Istanbul, Türkiye, on May 16-17. With the theme of "sustainability," the conference...
CEDES Announces Partnership With Langer & Laumann
CEDES, a global leader in elevator door safeguarding, has announced a new partnership with Langer & Laumann. Langer & Laumann offers the most frequently used modernization solution for elevator door...
CEDES Group Welcomes Haussmann as New CFO
CEDES Group recently welcomed Pascal-Olivier Haussmann as its new chief financial officer (CFO). With considerable experience with ERP (enterprise resource planning) software implementation and Internet of Things (IoT) financial services,...
CEDES Names Smans President of Business Development, IoT and Digital Products
Switzerland-headquartered sensor specialist CEDES AG recently named Daan Smans president of business development, Internet of Things (IoT) and digital products. Smans' professional experience includes being product director at relayr, where...
The Extra Mile
At Schindler HQ in Switzerland, a pilot program is bringing an unexpected benefit to employees. It's the end of an exceptionally long workday, the refrigerator at home is all but...
Second Swiss Elevator Day
Gathering provides a compact interconnection of expertise and contacts. Following the first event in 2021, approximately 80 participants met on June 6 at the Swiss Safety Center Academy of the...
Interlift 2023 Expects More Than 500 Exhibitors To Completely Fill Halls
AFAG Messen und Austellungen GmbH, organizer of interlift 2023 on October 17-20 in Augsburg, Germany, said on July 4 that this year’s event is already 47% ahead of the previous...
Europe, Germany and Switzerland
In-depth discussions provide insight on the respective economies and the impacts on the elevator industry. Traditionally, every year a report on the elevator and escalator markets in Europe's German-speaking countries...
Different Names, Same Issues
Some call them lifts and others call them elevators, but the issues besetting the vertical transportation (VT) industry in Europe are eerily the same as those in the U.S. and...
