Telelift

Telelift GmbH
legal form	GmbH
founding	1964
Seat	Maisach , Germany
management	Karl Pühringer
Branch	Plant and mechanical engineering
Website	www.telelift-logistic.com

Typical application at a Telelift station in a hospital

The Telelift GmbH is a global company active in plant construction and mechanical engineering with headquarters in Maisach in Munich .

Foundation and company history

Telelift GmbH was founded on January 31, 1964 by Erich Wesener in Munich. In the same year the patent for the Telelift system was granted and one year later the first major order for the Schweizerische Kreditanstalt in Zurich. The strong growth of Telelift GmbH in the following years made it necessary to move to a new company building in Puchheim near Munich in 1973 . Worldwide licensing ensured that the Telelift system was widely used. In 1974 the driverless transport system Transcar for container transport in hospitals was introduced as a second product line.

In 1975 the BfA in Berlin installed the largest telelift system in Germany with 1,050 vehicles. In 1978 the longest telelift system went into operation in Johannesburg Hospital with a track length of 8.2 km. To date, around 1,300 Telelift systems have been built worldwide (as of the end of 2014).

In 1989 Thyssen AG bought Telelift GmbH, integrated its own library conveyor technology under the name MultiLift and added the light goods transport division of Siemens AG (Simacom VT systems). In 1999, Swisslog Holding AG took over Telelift GmbH and integrated it into its Healthcare Solutions Division. After changing its name to Swisslog Telelift GmbH , Telelift GmbH was re-established in 2012 under its well-known name and sold to a private investor group. In the same year, the company moved to the new company headquarters in Maisach near Munich.

Products

Telelift GmbH develops and produces rail conveyor systems for the transport of goods up to 50 kg in buildings and production plants. The three-dimensional routing is characteristic of all systems . Telelift systems are the largest market for intralogistics applications in hospitals with 150 beds or more. Around 25–30 new systems are built in hospitals every year, with the improvement of hygiene through automation playing a major role. Telelift systems are also used for transport tasks in larger libraries with more than 250,000 media, in administrative buildings and in the automotive , manufacturing and food industries.