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The Swedish Elevator Association and its member companies are collaborating with the Xenter Botkyrka University of Applied Sciences outside Stockholm. Now LIA period 2 (Learning on the job, equivalent to internship) for class Hiss24 is approaching and we need help introducing future colleagues to the profession! Date: March 31 – June 5 Area: Greater Stockholm and surrounding areas, other locations may be of interest to individual students Contact Jan Sätherlund, Xenter University of Applied Sciences, if […]

A large part of the activities of the members of the Swedish Elevator Association consist of various types of service activities where elevators and escalators are maintained and renovated. The work often generates small amounts of hazardous waste such as oil spills, electrical equipment and light sources. A service technician typically visits several different customers on the same day with accompanying internal transport. This means that the administrative […]

Distance learning is an important step towards meeting the needs of the industry. Today, Xenter Vocational College runs Sweden's only higher education for elevator and escalator technicians. The education, which graduates around 30 technicians each year, is highly regarded and has a high status both within the industry and among students. The education is given on site in Tumba outside Stockholm and therefore generates […]

Ida Lindvall, Sales and Marketing Director at Aritco, has been a new member of the Swedish Elevator Association's board since the autumn meeting. We took the opportunity to ask her a few questions about why Aritco is involved in the Swedish Elevator Association and what she is passionate about. Since the autumn meeting of 2024, Ida Lindvall, Aritco, has been elected as a regular member of the Swedish Elevator Association's board. About Aritco's membership and […]

The Swedish National Board of Housing, Building and Planning annually monitors inspection statistics for motor-driven devices that are subject to inspection requirements according to the Swedish National Board of Housing, Building and Planning's regulations and general advice (2011:12) on lifts and certain other motor-driven devices. The 2023 inspection statistics showed that the proportion of motor-driven devices that had some form of deficiency during a recurring inspection is at an unchanged level compared to the previous […]

The Swedish Elevator Association with Secretary General Sara Berggren has co-signed a debate article together with Åsa Strahlemon, chairman of the DHR – Participation, Action, Freedom of Movement, Oscar Sjökvist, chairman of the Association of Young People with Disabilities, Titus Fridell, chairman of the Saco student council, Elsa Berlin, vice chairman of the Swedish United Student Unions, in Altinget.se about the Swedish National Board of Housing, Planning and Planning's new building regulation proposal which states that only 20 percent of newly built student housing […]

The Swedish Elevator Association is the Swedish trade association for companies in the elevator and escalator industry. We work to ensure that all buildings in Sweden are safe, accessible and sustainable when it comes to elevators and vertical transport, to promote accessibility for everyone regardless of physical ability. We are therefore critical of the Swedish National Board of Housing, Building and Planning's proposal to ease the building requirements for student housing when it […]

The Swedish Elevator Association's Secretary General Sara Berggren has been entrusted with the role of chair of the committee SIS/TK 211 Elevators and Escalators. The greater transparency in the standardization work means that the Swedish Elevator Association will be a good representative of all member companies and can keep members informed about things that can have a major impact on their operations. The purpose of standards is to agree on clear procedures […]

On Wednesday, November 13, the Swedish Elevator Association invites its members to an autumn meeting on the theme Vital: Safe workplaces in the elevator and escalator industry to create a good safety culture in the elevator and escalator industry. The Swedish Elevator Association wants to support the elevator and escalator industry in increasing knowledge about risks and safety, increasing the skills to practically use the knowledge about risks and safety that exists, and […]

Johanna Nygårdh is Regional Director Sweden North at KONE and newly elected to the board of the Swedish Elevator Association. We asked Johanna a few questions about why they are members and what she considers to be the Swedish Elevator Association’s most important mission. KONE is one of the world’s leading companies in the elevator and escalator industry with a mission to make it easy to move around in a […]

Fredrik Bodin is CEO of Vinga Hiss and newly elected representative of the elevator group Motum on the board of the Swedish Elevator Association. We asked Fredrik a few questions about why they are members and what he considers to be the most important tasks of the Elevator Association. The Motum group was formed in 2014, but its history goes back further than that. The oldest subsidiaries ITK, Hissgruppen and Uppsala Lyft were founded […]

In last week's debate article "The EU is not an excuse for Swedish regulatory mess" (Dagens Industri, May 30), the Lift Directive was incorrectly used as an example of over-implementation of EU legislation. It may be true that Sweden sometimes over-implements EU legislation, but basing the argument on the Lift Directive shows ignorance and is extremely unfortunate. On the contrary, what Jessika Roswall (M) and Tomas […]