About LiFTCORE
Brand story
Timeline Overview
Born from Expertise,
Built for the Future
LiFTCORE’s story is not a story of rapid expansion.
It is a story of three decades of accumulated expertise, unresolved technical pursuit, and a team of industry veterans choosing to rebuild vertical mobility from the core.
Every great global engineering brand starts from a legacy. LiFTCORE was founded by the industry’s most experienced Sino-German technical team — widely known as the “Elite Trio” — who spent decades commanding the R&D and engineering cores of the world’s elite vertical transportation giants.
Li Mo
Co-Founder & CEO
Andreas Hoennige
Co-Founder & Advisor
Alexander Klein
Co-Founder & CTO
1990s
The Foundation
Forging Expertise in Global Industry
During the 1990s global elevator industrial revolution, the entire vertical mobility field was dominated by European and American established giants.
At that time, Li Mo, Alexander Klein, and Andreas Hoennige started their careers within the ultimate tier of German elevator conglomerates respectively.
Li Mo grew up with the rise of China’s urbanization, mastering full-lifecycle elevator engineering and localized industrial iteration.
Alexander Klein, a German electrical engineering prodigy, devoted himself to elevator core control technology research.
Andreas Hoennige stepped into industrial R&D and global market operation, later serving as President of the European Elevator Association and Dean of the European Elevator Academy.
For over 20 years, the three elites worked side by side across Germany and China.
They witnessed the industry’s growth, mastered top-tier German engineering standards, and accumulated comprehensive global manufacturing and market experience.
2000-2011
The Insight
Seeing the Industry Bottleneck
While working at the international industrial giant, the team achieved countless landmark projects worldwide:
Nuclear power engineering standards, global supertall buildings, international airport fleets, and mass urban public transport systems.
However, after decades of deep industry involvement, the team clearly recognized the inherent limitations of traditional multinational enterprises:
Core technologies remained closed;
Global product solutions were overly unified and insufficiently flexible;
User experience and intelligent upgrading lagged behind the era’s evolution.
The industry needed new breakthroughs — but rigid multinational systems could not deliver innovation fast enough.
In 2011, Li Mo officially ended his decade‑long tenure as Engineering Director of a top‑tier multi‑national elevator corporation’s China section, starting to prepare for independent technological innovation.
2011-2014
The Preparations
Building a Full
Industrial Ecosystem
While laying the technical foundation, Weiqi Zhong spent more than ten years building a complete elevator supply chain and industrial system in Greater China.
She established mature manufacturing, sheet metal processing, component R&D, and global supplier networks creating a complete industrial foundation that most new brands could not possess.
At this stage, the four future founders completed their respective field accumulation:
Strategy + Core Technology + Global Market Resources + Full Industrial Chain.
All conditions for creating a new global elevator brand were fully ready.
The Birth of LiFTCORE
A New Chapter of
Independent Innovation
In 2015, driven by a shared belief in redefining vertical mobility, the four industry veterans officially joined forces.
The team completed the acquisition of a German core elevator technology enterprise LiFTCORE and officially launched the independent global brand LiFTCORE Elevator.
Unlike ordinary start-up brands that start from assembly and sales,
LiFTCORE was born with core German technology, complete industrial chain, and global market vision.
From day one, LiFTCORE’s mission was clear:
Break the technical barriers of traditional giants, and deliver more precise, safer, smarter vertical mobility solutions for the global market.
2015
2016-2023
The Development
Global Layout &
Technology lteration
In the following years, LiFTCORE rapidly completed its global strategic layout:
Established R&D and manufacturing hubs in Germany Stuttgart, China Zhongshan, Suzhou,Zhengzhou, and the United States
Formed a global production capacity of 80,000 sets annually
Led by CTO Alexander Klein, the technical team iteratively upgraded four generations of self-developed full independent elevator control systems, achieving a historic leap from technology following to global leading.
Adhering to unified German engineering standards, LiFTCORE obtained TUV, CE, CSA andfull international certifications, officially entering mainstream European, North Americanand global emerging markets.
2024-Now
The Innovation
Al Revolution &
User-Centric Upgrade
We launched the industry’s first AI intelligent elevator system and realized predictive maintenance, intelligent perception, and humanized interactive travel experience.
In 2026, completing the transformation from a pure engineering manufacturing brand to a global user‑centric intelligent mobility brand.
Our Core Belief
Most elevator brands focus on selling equipment.
LiFTCORE focuses on redefining the travel experience itself.
Rooted in German engineering heritage,
empowered byindependent core technology,
supported by a full global industrial chain,
and driven by a decades-experienced international founding team.
LiFTCORE continues to rewrite the new standard for global vertical mobility.
