Why to modernise your lifts and escalators with TKE

Install, service, modernise, replace – repeat. That's the product lifecycle of lifts and escalators. You don’t need us to understand its course. But at every stage you'll need an experienced partner to help you make the best decisions at the right time.

Adapting modernisation to the product lifecycle

Lifts and escalators are extremely repair-friendly and predestined for technology upgrades throughout their decades of operational life. With expert planning and the right timing, massive advantages can be achieved in operational performance as well as costs. At TKE, we make modernisation an adaptive process attuned to the product lifecycle and your needs as an owner, striving for the perfect balance between maintenance, smaller upgrades and the renewal of main components. At the end of a successfully prolongued product life of your lift or escalator, we jointly restart the cycle with our dedicated full replacement solutions.

Infographic of elevator and escalator product life cycle

New installation

After shipping from one of our European manufacturing sites and being expertly installed in your building, the "as good as new" phase of a lift or escalators lasts about a decade. The system is technically and aesthetically up-to-date and meets all user requirements. With a good maintenance plan, no surprises are expected apart from the replacement of worn parts.

Service & repair

More frequent breakdowns announce the transition: now an attentive lift and escalator service company partner and swift decisions by the owner are required. With targeted preventive measures and the execution of repairs, manageable investments bring many more years of trouble-free operation.

Modernisation

The best time to modernise a lift or escalator is when you still can choose the timing. Owners who have set up regular upkeep measures are at an advantage and can now pursue a sound modernisation concept. Even if the local authorities issue new regulations, the implementation is less costly for lifts and escalators that are well maintained.

Full replacement

There are lifts and escalators that have "survived" 40 years and more through constant modernisation. However, the rule is that at some point the gap to the state of the art can only be closed by a replacement system. An appropriately flexible product completely replaces the lift or escalator in the existing shaft or pit. After the conversion, it's like owning a new product.

Does your lift or escalator need an upgrade?

No matter whether your equipment comes from TK Elevator, thyssenkrupp Elevator or from any other company (Kone, Otis, Schindler, etc.). We can expertly maintain, modernise and replace all types and brands of vertical mobility systems.

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Adapting modernisation to your needs

From modular enhancements to comprehensive full-system modernisation, adaptive modernisation by TK Elevator helps reshape how people move around buildings and urban infrastructure. Upgrade at the right time to extend asset life, restore reliability and sustain peak performance. Transform buildings with a new generation of performance, efficiency and passenger experience.

Adapting to your needs.
To your schedule.
To your budget.

Upgrades with measurable impact. We know from 50+ years of experience that modernisation works. Each and every measure your TKE expert proposes, will have a measureable positive impact on your lift or escalator.

In step with your building and your business. There are as many ways to carry out upgrades on lifts and escalators as there are to Rome. Our seasoned experts have travelled most of them, but they will still find new ones to schedule your project around busy periods in your building or wrap it up before important dates and events.

Robust financial planning. There is no way around regulatory required modernisation, but with TKE as your partner you will be aware of all things coming your way early enough to ensure all options are available and can be tailored to your budget requirements.

To your benefit.
To your advantage.

Knowledge transparency. TKE provides a data-informed modernisation approach that proactively identifies wear, obsolescence, future regulatory compliance issues and performance drift before they become critical.

Extended product life. We all want things to last, and this is modernisations main objective. But it also ensures upkeep of performance and improves energy efficiency.

Ensured safety and comfort. Safety means compliance to norms and standards, passenger comfort means availability, reliability and a well-kept appearance.

Optimal return on investment. The ultimate bottomline: You modernise because you don't waste money. Not to modernise means chosing the more expensive route.

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Lift modernisation

Lift full replacement

Escalator modernisation

Escalator replacement

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The difference when you modernise with TKE

50+ years of experience

Our history as thyssenkrupp Elevator included, we've been shaping the vertical transportation industry for over half a century. TKE has contributed unique innovations like the TWIN elevator and the MULTI concept, we've pioneered smart maintenance with our MAX cloud, and made "green & digital" an elevator standard with EOX.

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Unique multi-brand competence

TKE's Universal Service is available for lifts and escalators from all manufacturers. Thanks to a global competence network that provides training, tools and know-how to our local service engineers and technical experts, we can service any brand as if it were a TK Elevator product – and, not surprisingly, the same applies to modernisation.

Why we can work on any lift or escalator

TKE means "Made in Europe"

Today's supply chains are global, but TKE products still bear the label "Made in Europe". We will build your new installation and modernisation escalators and moving walks at our factories in Hamburg and Asturias. Our award-winning EOX family of eco-digital lifts is made in Spain, Italy and Germany, at our new TKE Product Competence Centre.

Discover our EOX Rebuild full replacement lift

Adapting to the product lifecycle & your needs

Why to modernise with TKE

Adapting modernisation to the product lifecycle

Adapting modernisation to your needs

Adapting to your needs.
To your schedule.
To your budget.

To your benefit.
To your advantage.

Dive deeper and learn all about our dedicated modernisation and replacement products and solutions

The difference when you modernise with TKE

Read more about TK Elevator's modernisation reference projects on lifts, escalators and moving walks all over Europe

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See all our modernisation offers for lifts & escalators

Adapting to the product life cycle and your needs

Lift modernisation

Lift full replacement

Lift retrofit

Escalator partial modernisation

Escalator and moving walks full replacement and retrofit

Escalator replacement on existing truss

Universal Service by TK Elevator

Adapting to the product lifecycle & your needs

Why to modernise with TKE

Adapting modernisation to the product lifecycle

Adapting modernisation to your needs

Adapting to your needs.To your schedule.To your budget.

To your benefit.To your advantage.

Dive deeper and learn all about our dedicated modernisation and replacement products and solutions

The difference when you modernise with TKE

Read more about TK Elevator's modernisation reference projects on lifts, escalators and moving walks all over Europe

You might also be interested in...

See all our modernisation offers for lifts & escalators

Adapting to the product life cycle and your needs

Lift modernisation

Lift full replacement

Lift retrofit

Escalator partial modernisation

Escalator and moving walks full replacement and retrofit

Escalator replacement on existing truss

Universal Service by TK Elevator

Adapting to your needs.
To your schedule.
To your budget.

To your benefit.
To your advantage.