Lift Munich

Lift Munich Caption

General information Native name: Lift Munich GmbH (?) Country: (West) Germany Established: 1967 Founder: Not known Headquarters: Munich, (West) Germany Website: Not available Status: Defunct Notes: Now known as Liftmaterial, under the ownership of Wittur Group.

Lift Munich (now Liftmaterial) is a former elevator manufacturer from Munich, Germany.

Overview

The company was established in 1967 as a supplier of elevator parts and components for the German elevator market. It also had ties with Italian elevator door manufacturer Sematic.

Between 1992 and 1998, it was part of Stuttgart based Haushahn before changed hands to Schindler after the latter took over Haushahn. Two years later, it merged with Sematic Group and at one point the company became Liftmaterial. After fifteen years with Sematic, it merged with Wittur Group in August 2015 who also owns Sematic.

It only produced traction and hydraulic elevators. Traction elevators were designed specifically for buildings with up to 15 floors.

History of Lift Munich in Indonesia

Lift Munich entered Indonesia in 1984 through Tanjung Raya Elok as its distributor. The first Lift Munich elevator in Indonesia was installed at the now demolished IBEC Building, Jakarta (demolished in 2014). It was installed in 1985 and had a serial number JG-001/85. It was probably the only elevator in Indonesia having such a unique serial number.

By 1990, TRE had installed 39 Lift Munich elevators in Indonesia.

Very little is known about Lift Munich in Indonesia throughout the 1990s, apart from installing high rise elevators in Graha Iskandarsyah and the Ministry of Transportation in Jakarta. TRE stopped importing Lift Munich elevators in 2005.

At one point Lift Munich was distributed by Ihaka Saka Nusantara, who also distributes Hosting elevators from China (since 2005) and was formerly a distributor for Haushahn from 1994 until 1997.

Elevator description (1980s to 1990s)

1980s-1990s Lift Munich elevators have no known model names. They were available as traction and hydraulic type.

A lot of Lift Munich elevators produced in the 1980s and 1990s used third party (generic) fixtures made by Schaefer; these buttons were either MT 28 push buttons or ET 28 touch sensitive buttons. Floor indicators were either segment display or LED dot matrix display. This is the only known design of Lift Munich elevators.

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  A Lift Munich elevator from 1991 at The Royal Beach Seminyak Resort, Bali.

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  Call station with Schaefer ET 28 touch sensitive buttons.

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  Lift Munich logo

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  Schaefer car station with ET 28 touch buttons.

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  Capacity plate, with the distributor name, serial number and production year.

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  Floor indicator

Known installations in Indonesia

Note: Red shaded columns denote installations that are no longer exist.

Location name	City/town	Year installed	Remarks
IBEC Building	Jakarta	1985	Believed to be the very first LM elevator installed in Indonesia, due to its very unique serial number (JG-001/85). This building was demolished in 2014 for redevelopment into a new office building called Tamansari.
Graha Iskandarsyah	Jakarta	1996	Replaced into Hyundai STVF in the 2000s, and then modernized in the 2010s. Service elevator was the last one to survive; it was replaced into a Sigma Iris NV in 2015. All elevators were modernized again in the late 2010s.
Menara Multimedia	Jakarta	Unknown year	Modernization of 1985 Mitsubishi elevators, a very rare example where Lift Munich did a modernization of older elevators. It is currently the only known Lift Munich modernization in Indonesia.
Ministry of Transportation	Jakarta	1997-1998	Project was awarded in April 1996, and completed in 1997 or 1998. Current fate unknown, but they might have been modernized/replaced by now.
The Royal Beach Seminyak Resort	Bali	1991	Probably the last surviving LM elevator in Indonesia. Two out of three passenger elevators have been modernized.
Ibnu Sina Hospital	Makassar	?	One elevator was replaced into Sigma in the early 2000s, and the other one was replaced into Otis in the 2010s.

Other notable installations which might have no longer exist by now:

• Fatmawati Hospital, Jakarta
• Persahabatan Hospital, Jakarta (modernized by Louser Lift)
• Hotel Santika, Yogyakarta (replaced into Sigma in 2009)

Trivia

• Lift Munich was the third elevator manufacturer from a German speaking nation to enter the Indonesian market after Schindler and Thyssen.

• It also had a Chinese subsidiary at one point called Chengdu Lift Munich, which was based in Chengdu, China.

• Tanjung Raya Elok, Lift Munich's previous distributor, is now known as Tanjung Raya Elok who is currently a distributor of Surapid elevators (a brand of Xizi Elevator Group) from China. Previously, TRP distributed SWORD elevators, which is also a brand of Xizi.
  • Besides Lift Munich, TRE was also a distributor of Elevadores Atlas (Brazil) and Kone elevators, which began in 1991. Also at one point, the company distributed Young Jin elevators from South Korea.

• Liftmaterial still exists today under the ownership of elevator component manufacturer Wittur Group, but their elevators are now produced in China. It seems that the products are assembled using parts bought from different Chinese companies.

Gallery

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  Lift Munich advertisement (source: Yellow Pages Indonesia, 1990)

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  Lift Munich and Elga Lift advertisement (source: Yellow Pages Indonesia, 1990)

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  Ihaka Saka Nusantara advertisement with Lift Munich and AE-Lift Hosting brands (Source: Yellow Pages Indonesia, 2009-2010 edition)

External links

• “Mutu, standar keselamatan dan pelayanan diutamakan” - KONSTRUKSI Magazine, May 1991 (PDF available in Indonesian)