Meet our companies

Aritco Lift

Aritco is an award-winning manufacturer of platform lifts. They supply a wide range of lifts for homes, and public and commercial spaces. Meeting the highest requirements regarding accessibility, comfort, space efficiency, and design. The lifts are built and designed with outstanding quality, safety, and reliability in mind with various options to suit both new and existing buildings perfectly. Since the start in 1995 more than 40,000 lifts have been installed in buildings worldwide, creating possibilities for millions of people.

Motala Hissar

Motala Hissar is a leading manufacturer of elevators for buildings where space is limited. The company has one of the world’s most space-efficient elevators.

Motala Hissar started in 1972 with the production of goods lifts. Since the 1980s, the company has focused mainly on platform lifts, which are predominantly used for accessibility adaptation of buildings. Over 10,000 lifts have been delivered to customers worldwide to date.

Vimec

Vimec has been designing and building cabin lifts, stair lifts, and inclined platform lifts since 1980, improving accessibility in private and public buildings and ensuring domestic mobility, home comfort and well-being.

Gartec

Gartec started in 1994 and has been at the forefront of the platform lift industry. Gartec are the UK’s leading supplier and installer of platform lifts. Gartec continues to provide extensive Platform Lift knowledge, excellent customer service and high-quality products within the commercial, trade and home sectors. Focusing on full turnkey solutions, we offer, advice on compliance, accessibility, dimensions, costs, sustainability, design, installation and after-care.

TKS Heis

TKS Heis is a traditional total supplier of lifting equipment throughout the country. Whether you need a low-lift, stair lift or a more advanced lift solution, we are flexible and helpful in finding the best solution for you. As a supplier of all types of lifting equipment, we are committed to creating security for the customer, quality from both products and employees.

Arkel

Arkel is a leading Turkish manufacturer of components for elevators, for both new installations and the growing modernization segment. The company, founded in 1998, manufactures and sells complete control systems, integrated drive units and a broad range of related electronic components for elevators.

BS Tableau

BS Tableau is a German high-quality manufacturer of bespoke fixtures for elevator cabins and also offers a broad range of electronic components to lift operators and OEMs, mostly targeting modernization projects.

Esse-Ti

Esse-Ti is a leading manufacturer of two-way communication equipment, alarm systems, and monitoring solutions for the lift industry. Established in 1983, the company has more than 40 years of telecommunications experience.

Syntium

Syntium is a provider of state-of-the-art lift communication components with unrivalled customer focus and technical support. Since the formation in 2010 they have quickly established a reputation as a reliable and trustworthy leading company in the UK for the supply of lift communication systems. Equipped with the best products using the latest technology and a team of experienced and highly skilled professionals.

Vega

Vega is a leading Italian designer and manufacturer of passenger interface systems and electronic systems for elevators. The company was founded in 2004 and has subsidiaries in USA, Brazil and Albania.

News

Innovalift company Esse-Ti acquires Syntium Lifts in UK

19 May 2025

Esse-Ti, part of the Innovalift group, acquire 100 per cent of the shares in Syntium Lifts (“Syntium”), based in Kent in the UK, to expand its geographical reach of lift communication products for lifts and elevators.

Syntium is a leading UK specialist distributor of lift communication products for elevators, primarily for the growing modernization segment. The company, founded in 2010 by Dave O’Brien, sells complete lift communication solutions such as autodialler units, evacuation intercom systems and routers with associated SIM card services.

Innovalift AB have committed to set near- and long-term company-wide emission reductions in line with science-based net-zero with the SBTi

19 May 2025

In January 2025, Innovalift together with the individual companies further developed the joint strategic sustainability journey by as a group committing to net-zero as part of the Science Based Targets initiative. Taking climate action is a part of the strategic agenda on sustainability and we are proud to take the first step to commit to SBTi’s global movement for ambitious corporate decarbonization.

Innovalift completes acquisition of Arkel

23 January 2025

On July 19th, 2024, Innovalift AB (wholly owned subsidiary of Investment AB Latour) signed an agreement to acquire Arkel based in based in Istanbul, Türkiye to expand our geographic reach and complement our product portfolio of components for elevators. All closing conditions have now been fulfilled, and the transaction was closed on January 23rd, 2025.

Innovalift acquires lift component manufacturer Arkel, Türkiye

19 July 2024

This week Innovalift signed an agreement to acquire 100 per cent of the shares in Arkel based in Istanbul, Türkiye to expand its geographic reach and complement its product portfolio of components for elevators.

Investment AB Latour

13 May 2024

On Friday April 26th, Investment AB Latour announced a new business area in Innovalift. After the first acquisition in 2016, Latour Industries have nurtured and developed a portfolio of platform lift and lift component companies which today consists of Vimec, Aritco Lift, Motala Hissar, Gartec, TKS Heis, VEGA, Esse-Ti and BS Tableau, that are now ready to be the foundation of a 7th business area of its own.