HAS Asansör Lifts

What to know about HAS Asansör lifts

HAS did not start with lifts. In 1980 Sebahaddin Şekerci set up production of rubber and plastic products, and only in spring 1987 did the first lift product appear - rubber buffers. Cars followed, then semi-automatic doors, and with them controllers and hydraulic systems. Door output grew from two hundred units a month to several thousand. The company came into lift manufacturing from the bottom up, starting with components.

It still shows today. Production is built around sheet metal processing: a CNC laser cutter, a stamping press, robotic shears, a CNC bending machine and a robotic painting line. The consequence for the client is simple: a car of non-standard size is not a problem here, as panels are cut for the specific shaft. When you measure an old shaft where every floor is off by a few centimetres, that flexibility matters more than a nice catalogue.

The factory car designs are finished in satin stainless steel or gloss panels, with mirror inserts, wooden panels, granite or PVC flooring, laser-cut ceilings and glass in stainless steel frames. The factory's list includes a controller with variable frequency control (VVVF) and an inspection control station on the car roof - things without which a modernization should not be accepted today.

One caveat. Turkish lifts are often assembled from mixed sources: the traction machine from one supplier, the controller from another, the doors from a third. That is not a flaw as long as everything is documented. We insist that the specification names the specific component manufacturers, and we do so before payment. Otherwise, a few years later, finding a service part becomes guesswork.