2005 Hydraulic components for the Heathrow Airport Terminal 5 (T5) in London.

2005 Hydraulic components for the Heathrow Airport Terminal 5 (T5) in London. Heathrow is the world's busiest international airport and T5 is designed to alleviate congestion at Heathrow's other terminals, which are all slated for refurbishment or replacement in the coming years. Terminal 5 was officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II on the 14 March 2008 and opened to passengers on 27 March 2008: special lifts without pit needed to move disabled people from the jumbo arrival. They are designed to move upward and downward with speed of 1 m/s or 0,15 m/s in order to reduce the operating times. The choice of the speed is based on the presence of passengers inside the lift. For each of the twelve lift we supplied one telescopic cylinders ø 50 2 stages and a specially designed power units with double pump 3/9 kW and special configuration.

1993 The system for disabled people located at the Louvre Museum in Paris. It is an important work of art, a unique handicapped platform lift which, encased in a spiral sculpture, descends inside architect I.M. Pei’s famous glass pyramid to the museum’s central entrance.

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Heathrow Airport where there are special platforms hoisting materials to load Air France Jumbos: a platform lifting without guides up to the loading hatch of the Jumbo Cargo. The guiding system is made by means of the cylinders themselves.