TÜV SÜD’s lifts and machinery experts provide comprehensive engineering and inspection services throughout the life cycle of your products. We offer customised solutions to enhance the safety and availability of your equipment, mobilise reserves of performance and reduce your risk of liability. By adopting an interdisciplinary approach, we can solve even your most complex cross-disciplinary problems. For greater safety and certainty, we identify and keep pace with developments in international regulations and standards, German laws and regulations and accident prevention regulations.



Accredited as a “Notified Body” and as an “approved body” (ZÜS) under the German Ordinance on Industrial Safety and Health, we are your impartial partner throughout the European Union and beyond.

Our fields of competence

Lift and escalator:

All types of lifts (goods and passenger lifts, industrial lifts, under floor lifts, warehouse lifts)

• EC Type examination of lifts and model lifts as per Lift Directive 95/16/EC
• EC Type examination of safety components as per Lift Directive 95/16/EC
• Type examination as per Machinery Directive 2006/42/EC for escalators and moving walkways
• Energy efficiency of lifts and components as per VDI 4707.

Hoisting equipment:

All types of builders’ hoists and cranes

• Type examination of crane as per Machinery Directive 2006/42/EC

Passenger Boarding Bridge

• Third party inspection

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