Feature articles

Big, bigger, Zenit® Xtreme

A sliding lift door with 8.0 m clear width and 5.0 m clear height? This is now reality, not just wishful thinking. At the beginning of 2019, Meiller Aufzugtüren GmbH, the innovative lift door manufacturer from Munich, introduced the new oversized sliding door Zenit® Xtreme onto the market.

Lift forums again a great success in 2018

Four component manufacturers well-known in the lift industry: Meiller Aufzugtüren, Algi Hydraulik Systeme, Danfoss, and Kollmorgen Steuerungstechnik once again held a series of lift forums this year. The events were held in Munich at the Meiller company headquarters, Utrecht in Holland (two events) and Cologne, as well as in London and Manchester in England, and Hamburg and Eltville, at the headquarters of Algi Hydraulik Systeme.

ZenitXtreme – a new dimension in lift doors

They have been available since the beginning of the year: doors in extra-large dimensions for heavy duty industrial lifts are now available from the lift door specialist Meiller Aufzugtüren GmbH in Munich: ZenitXtreme.

MiDrive – digitalisation is making progress

At interlift 2017, Meiller Aufzugtüren GmbH unveiled its new MiDrive door drive to the world public. This is the beginning of a new chapter and an important new step that has been taken towards a digital future for lift components, according to the Munich-based Company.

Explosion-proof lift doors according to ATEX 2016/34/EU

The ATEX Directive 2016/34/EU entered into force on 20 April 2016, creating a revised legal framework that redefines explosion protection in Europe. The existing Directive 94/9/EC at that time became ineffective when the new directive took effect.

RepKit: the fast, easy way to repair the car door drive

Most of the approximately 750,000 lifts in Germany are more than twenty years old. They are subject to natural wear and suffer more or less frequent malfunctions. One of the most frequent causes of malfunctions are the landing and car doors. These moving parts are in direct contact with users. Consequently, they are exposed to vandalism and increased wear.

New Meiller RepKits for repairing car door drives

In Germany alone, there are approximately 750,000 lifts in operation, the vast majority of which are more than twenty years old. They are naturally subject to wear and tear, which in turn leads more or less to frequent disruptions in service.

Doors with extremely low transom height for modernisation

Meiller Aufzugtüren GmbH has been offering professional solutions for modernisation for many years. As a result, it has developed many concepts, such as car doors with skates, which have been adapted to third-party landing doors or even to its own earlier generations of doors. At the 2017 interlift, Meiller presented a new product in its line of modernisation solutions: the Compact door series.

Door drive with extremely high energy efficiency

At last year’s interlift in October, the innovative firm Meiller Aufzugtüren GmbH from Munich presented its forward-looking MiDrive door drive.