Jan Hamer & Co
Jan Hamer & Co was a Dutch manufacturer of elevators and stairlifts based in Amsterdam .
history
Jan Hamer (1861-1919) founded a technical trading office in Zutphen in 1886 under the name Jan Hamer & Co. In 1889, Willem Eising Mulder became his partner and he inherited Jan Hamer, who died on October 11, 1919. In 1920 Jan Hamer & Co merged with the Vulcanus iron foundry from Vaassen . During this phase of the collaboration, the lift in the Paleis Noordeinde in The Hague was also installed. In 1948 the two companies ended their collaboration and the Jan Hamer & Co lift factory moved to the Oostergas factory in Amsterdam. At that time only wood was used to build the lifts. In the 1980s the company was taken over by OTIS . In the same year OTIS also took over the Brinkman machine factory, which had developed the first stairlift in the Netherlands in 1904. The two Dutch companies were united under the name Liftefabriek Brinkman Jan Hamer and specialized in the production of stair lifts.
In 1996 the company became independent again and in 1997 was given the new name Freelift BV
At the end of 2007 Freelift became part of the Handicare Group.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Company history , handicare, accessed on March 26, 2019