Lifts by Cibes Lift

What to know about lifts by Cibes Lift

Sweden's Cibes has no ropes, no counterweight and no machine room. The platform travels along a screw shaft: a screw stands at the centre of the structure, and a driven nut moves the platform up or down. Hence its key feature: the structure is self-supporting. The shaft arrives as a ready-to-install kit and is assembled directly on the prepared floor, with no need to dig out a pit.

The power supply depends on the model. The mini platform for a private house can run on a single-phase 220-240 V supply via a variable frequency drive, with a motor rating of about 2.2 kW; there is also a three-phase 400 V version with a 16 A starting current. It is the single-phase option that makes Cibes convenient in an existing house: there is no need to run a separate power supply line. Installation takes less time than for a conventional lift in a shaft, and we give a specific schedule after visiting the site.

Now for what a screw-driven lift cannot do. It is slow: 0.15 m/s, or nine metres per minute. The mini model has a rated load of 300 kg, and travel is limited to four stops and roughly thirteen metres. The doors are single-leaf and open outwards by hand, and a gate may be fitted instead. For an apartment block entrance with a morning rush, it is not an option.

In western Ukraine, these platform lifts mostly go into refurbishment projects: old houses, institutions in historic districts, small clinics and offices where there is nowhere to cut in a conventional shaft but wheelchair access still has to be provided. The enclosure is either solid steel painted to a RAL colour or glazed; in residential interiors, glass is the more common choice.