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Stannah Lifts

Stannah Lifts

Elevator manufacturer

"Stannah" redirects here. For Stanah, Lancashire, see Thornton, Lancashire. For the primary school, see Stanah Primary School.

Stannah Lifts Holdings Ltd is a provider of elevators, escalators and moving walkways and manufacturer of stairlifts and platform lifts. The headquarters are in Andover, Hampshire, Great Britain. The company makes various commercial lifts, but it is best known for its stairlifts, with which its name has become synonymous.

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The company headquarters, lift distribution and service division and stairlift division are in the Portway Industrial Estate on the western outskirts of Andover. The company also operates a factory in Newburn, near Newcastle-upon-Tyne.[2]

History

Joseph Stannah founded the company in London in 1867. Initially, a manufacturer of cranes and hoists for transporting ships' cargo, the company began to make hand-powered passenger lifts at the turn of the 20th century.[3] Its first headquarters were on Southwark Bridge Road, before moving to Bankside in the early 20th century. The company remained here until the site was destroyed during the London Blitz. Leslie Stannah, the chairman at the time, built new headquarters at Tiverton Street, Southwark using compensation money awarded to the company.[4]

Stannah Lifts moved from London to Andover in 1974, produced its first stairlift in 1975, and began exporting in 1979.[5] From there, it established itself as the leading manufacturer of stairlifts worldwide, as well as Britain's largest lift manufacturer.[4] Subsidiaries were opened in the United States and The Netherlands in 1992, and Slovakia in 2003. The company also purchased distributors in Ireland in 2005, and Norway in 2010.[5] The company has produced over 700,000 stairlifts in February 2011 during a visit by the Prince of Wales to the Andover headquarters.[3]

Products

Stairlifts & Homelifts

The company's stairlift division manufactures new stairlifts as well as reconditioning old units. Models are produced for both straight, curved and external staircases, with all units using a rail fitted to the stair tread.

Commercial lifts

Stannah is a UK supplier of lift products supplying passenger and platform lifts, goods and service lifts, and escalators & moving walkways for all types of buildings, alongside providing maintenance and repair services.

Escalators - 3rd Party

Although Stannah manufacture and install their own escalators, but they also import and install escalators from different countries, such as Hong Kong. They install ANLEV escalators in TfL stations such as Tottenham Hale, Paddington, and supermarkets (ASDA, Tesco & Sainsburys).

Lifts - 3rd Party

Besides escalators, they also import and install lifts from different brands located in different countries. They install Shanghai Mitsubishi (subsidiary of Mitsubishi Electric) lifts in London Luton Airport. During the late 2000s, Stannah also installed ThyssenKrupp ISIS MRLs in the United Kingdom after ThyssenKrupp discontinued the model in Europe. Stannah used leftover stock from ThyssenKrupp for this reason, continuing a years-long parthership that started with Thyssen sharing parts. [6]

Corporate

Since its foundation, the company has remained a family-run business. At present, six fifth-generation members of the family maintain a 100% shareholding in the company.[7][8][9] Stannah Lifts was officially incorporated as a Private Limited Company in March 1961.[1] In December 2009, the company reported an annual turnover of £183,426,000 and a profit of £9,671,000.[1]

See also

References

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    "Stannah Stairlifts lifted by £500,000-a-year contract". NE Business. 8 November 2010. Retrieved 10 May 2011.
  3. [3]
    "Prince Charles makes Stannah stairlift visit". BBC News. 21 February 2011. Retrieved 4 May 2011.
  4. [4]
    "From Blackfriars to Stairlifts - How Stannah Started Out in Southwark". Southwark News. 14 August 2008. Retrieved 4 May 2011.
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    "Case Study - Stannah" (PDF). Superbrands. Retrieved 4 May 2011.
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    "Login :: Stannah". Archived from the original on 2008-09-18.
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    "Company profile - Stannah Lifts". Top Track 250. October 2010. Archived from the original on 16 March 2012. Retrieved 10 May 2011.
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    "Stannah rolls 500,000 lift off production line". Barbour. Retrieved 19 May 2011.
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    "Who we are and what we believe in". Stannah Lifts. Retrieved 19 May 2011.
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