February 19, 2016

Change in Senior Management following the Acquisition of Sematic



The Wittur Group announced today that following the acquisition of Sematic Group the integration and the future strategic development of the Group will be overseen by a new Chief Financial Officer. On February 22, 2016, Frank Schulkes, former CFO and Executive Vice President of GE Healthcare, will be appointed as new CFO of the Wittur Group. Daniel Wiest has resigned from his current role, effective February 22, 2016, to pursue other opportunities. To ensure a smooth transition, Mr. Wiest will remain associated with the Group in an advisory capacity.

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SHANGHAI, JANUARY 26TH, 2016

Liftismore: Wittur presents a Chinese publication about special elevator projects



Last year Wittur presented a publication focused on special elevator projects developed by Wittur with architects and consultants worldwide.
Wittur now launchs the Chinese version of this book for the convenience of Chinese readers.
The book "LIFTISMORE" aims at introducing some architectural project where the elevator design was considered not only for its usefulness, but also as an element of style: an additional space where the pen of the designer can incorporate the overall building concept.
 

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Suzhou, November 26th, 2015

Wittur awarded “Best Supplier 2015” of Schindler China



Schindler (China) Elevator Co., Ltd., one of the world's largest elevator companies, held a grand annual supplier conference in Suzhou on November 26th, 2015. Wittur Elevator Components (Suzhou) Co., Ltd.  was invited as the most important Schindler supplier and awarded the "Best Supplier 2015" of Schindler (China) Elevator Co., Ltd.
 
Mr. Herbiet, Purchasing Director for Asia Pacific of Schindler, announced the victory of Wittur.
Mr. Thomas Oetterli, CEO of Schindler Group China, presented the award to Mr. Li Shaohua, General Manager of Wittur China.

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November 4, 2015

Open Doors Day celebrated by Wittur in Portugal



On November 4th 2015, Wittur Elevator Components hosted an event in Hotel Fénix in Lisbon, Portugal, as a Wittur Open Day. The Export Team of Wittur Spain, represented by our Sales Representatives Mr. Daniel Domingos, Mr. José Alberto Gil and headed by Mr. Arnaldo Almeida, held two separate sessions for almost 100 independent Portuguese customers.
Three weeks later, an identical event took place at the remarkable framework of the Spanish Chamber of Commerce in Casablanca (Morocco). A complete Wittur Group profile as well as an overview of our whole product portfolio was shown to many customers, who greatly appreciated the capacity of empathy, proximity and service that Wittur can offer to them with respect to the increasingly demanding requirements of the market.
These Open Doors Days aim to bring our customers closer, not only to our corporate values, but also to the quality, diversity and innovation of all Wittur products, which highly strengthen our commercial relationships with all our customers.

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Oct. 20th, 2015

Wittur China celebrates its 20th anniversary with the official opening of a new showroom



On 20th Oct, 2015 Wittur China has celebrated its 20th anniversary with the official opening of a new showroom in its production facility in Wujiang near Suzhou, China. Dr. Walter Rohregger, Wittur Group CEO, Mr. Sergio Biglino, Group executive VP of Asia Pacific, and Mr. Li Shaohua Wittur China Managing Director were present at the ceremony.

Dr. Rohregger mentioned in his speech that ”the transformation of the business here over the last three years is unbelievable and the timing is brilliant, because this is an important milestone after 20 years history of Wittur in China! Never forget that the new showroom means to better present our products to customers.”

 After the ceremony, the new showroom opened for the visit of Wittur management team.


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Witturshop



Ordering elevator components and spare parts has never been so easy.

Discover the future at Wittur Shop. 

Soon available!


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October 13th-16th, 2015

Highlights from Wittur CUBE at Interlift 2015



Thank you to all the visitors who came to experience Wittur CUBE at Interlift 2015!  Have a look at what happened by browsing this gallery and don't forget: Wittur sales team is at your disposal for further information. 


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Chennai, September 19-20, 2015

Wittur India teams win Gold and Silver Awards in QCFI Competition 2015



Wittur India Quality and Production team which participated in the Quality Circle Forum of India competition 2015, won the Gold and Silver Awards respectively. The competition was held at Chennai on the 19th and 20th September 2015. This is the 24th convention of the Forum.
QCFI offers to manufacturing companies and to their employees the opportunity to share and exchange their best practices. It enables organizations to meet the business challenges and remain competitive through total employee involvement in pursuit of quality efforts. 


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Wittur and Sematic to merge in order to create a leading global supplier to the elevator industry



Combined company will become one of the significant global manufacturers of components, modules and complete systems for the elevator industry

Wiedenzhausen / Osio Sotto, 11 August 2015 – Wittur and Sematic today announced that they have agreed to merge in order to create a leading global supplier in the elevators and elevator components manufacturing industry. Bain Capital, as the owner of Wittur, and The Carlyle Group and the Zappa family, as joint owners of Sematic, have signed an agreement on the transfer of a controlling interest in Sematic to Wittur. Carlyle and the Zappa family will retain a stake in the combined entity.


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7th August 2015

Wittur CUBE: a new experience at INTERLIFT 2015



Wittur is proud to invite all professionals in the elevator business to come to the Interlift 2015 exhibition at the Augsburg Exhibition Centre from October 13th to October 16th 2015. The highlight of this year’s Interlift will be the new 1,500 m² modern pavilion, named ’WITTUR CUBE’,  exclusively dedicated to Wittur. WITTUR CUBE will be directly connected to the main entrance, Hall 1 and Hall 7.

The new building offers visitors the space required to experience a wealth of innovative elevator products, modules and solutions from Wittur’s extensive range


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