EURO - LIFT 2012 - fairs for professionals

Finished fairs EURO-LIFT 2012 confirmed that the organization of trade fairs for lifts’ professionals makes good business sense.

EURO-LIFT 2012 in figures:

  • Number of exhibitors around 130 companies from 17 countries.
  • Exhibition space - about 10% higher than in 2010.
  • Number of visitors: over 2000 people.

Meeting every two years, representatives of the manufacturers of lifts and components and the representatives of maintenance companies and inspection of notified bodies of Polish and a growing number of European and non-European countries is an excellent platform for the presentation of new technical, legal and organizational solutions.

EURO-LIFT fairs were also a great place for evaluation by lifts owners, boards of housing associations and property managers of technical progress in the field of safety and energy savings of new lifts, which should be the impetus for them to speed up the modernization of the old lifts.

Fairs received the honorary patronage of the Minister of Transport, Construction and Maritime Economy, Office of Technical Inspection, the National Headquarters of the State Fire Service and the Association of Polish Architects.

The fairs LIFT EURO 2012 was also attended by representatives of European Lift associations:

  • Mr. Luc Rivet - Secretary General of the European Lift Association (ELA),
  • Mr. Fabricio Nicola - President of the National Association of Industrial Components Lifts (ANICA)
  • Mr. Yury Radin - Vice President of the Russian Union of Lifts

During the EURO-LIFT 2012 took place an interesting seminar program. Invited by the Polish Association of Lift Manufacturers (PALM) representatives of European Notified Bodies:

  • The Polish Technical Inspection Office (UDT),
  • Liftinsituut (Holland)
  • TÜV SÜD Poland
  • TÜV Austria

presented the interesting papers on new laws and new standards as well as technical solutions and procedures to comply with these regulations.

Also, manufacturers of lifts and lift components presented a wide variety of solutions to the same problem under Annex A3 to the PN-EN 81.1 and EN 81.2.

Presented to the European statistics on accidents on the lifts did not leave the illusion that despite the fact that the alleged safety of new lift accidents on them, including fatal accidents among users and maintenance lift and installers happen.

With these statistics clearly show that the statutory and mandatory modernization lift in a number of countries entered the European Union is beginning to deliver positive results in a decrease in the number of accidents in these countries.

Discussed in several papers lift maintenance including the maintenance of historical lifts also met with great interest of the participants.

During the Fair, EURO-LIFT 2012 also distributed prizes to exhibitors in the categories of:

  • The best product,
  • The most interesting arrangement of the stand.

The jury, chaired by Professor Jerzy Kwasniewski awarded a total of 8 medals and awards.

Among the award-winning products include:

  • Vandal resistant doors company Wittur,
  • LDS LOGOS Drive System from RST Elektronik,
  • The control system for the MRL equipped with a bus SterDźwigCAN presented by the company Sterdźwig,
  • Frequency converter ZETADYN 4 - Ziehl Abegg company,
  • Telescopic automatic door panels of 2-TDE company,
  • System protection against partial and full earth fault electrical devices - WES company,
  • Drive the cabin door type SDK-2 - LIFTSERVICE S.A company,
  • PLW-1000 lift control system and SBK-02 system to detect unintended movement of the car - both products of Pilawa company.

Already, we invite all interested parties on the third edition of the EURO-LIFT Fair in October 2014.