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Today, April 28, marks World Day for Safety and Health at Work, a day on which at MP we have joined the European Lift Safety Day initiative, promoted by EFESME and ELA.

To this end, we have organized simultaneous safety inspections across all our European sites, including key maintenance centers, major installation projects, and factories. Several area directors, country managers, and installation and maintenance supervisors are carrying out follow-up visits, aimed at:

• Highlighting management’s commitment to safety.
• Strengthening a shared preventive culture throughout the organization.
• Delivering a strong message to the sector alongside clients and associations.
• Reinforcing safety as a daily priority in our operations, beyond regulatory compliance.

At MP, we continue to move forward with a clear goal: to ensure that safety is a core value present in every decision, every action, and every day.

MP Lifts, a European company with more than 1,200 employees and operations in over 100 countries worldwide, announces that Warsaw Metro has renewed its maintenance contract with the company, reinforcing a strong and trusted partnership focused on operational excellence and service reliability.

Following the initial award of the contract in January 2023—covering nearly 300 lifts, escalators, and platform systems—Polish branch has been awarded the contract again for an additional 12-month period. The new agreement, effective February 2026, includes an expanded scope, reaching close to 400 units under maintenance.

Since that date, MP Lifts has maintained and repaired 400 multibrand units, including escalators, lifts, and accessibility platforms, covering brands such as Otis, Schindler, TKE, Kone, City Lift, and Lift Projekt.

MP Lifts appreciates the trust that Metro Warszawskie continues to place in the company. This renewal reflects a shared commitment to ensuring safe, efficient, and uninterrupted service across one of Europe’s most demanding urban transport networks.

The company’s proven capability to maintain equipment from multiple manufacturers remains a key strength, enabling it to deliver consistent, high-quality performance in heavy-duty, high-traffic environments such as metro systems.

This agreement further consolidates MP Lifts’ position as a reliable partner in the maintenance of complex mobility infrastructures, demonstrating its ability to manage diverse technologies while maintaining the highest standards of service.

About MP Lifts

MP Lifts, with more than 30 years of experience in the lift industry, specialises in the design, manufacturing, installation, maintenance and modernisation of lifts and mobility solutions for buildings. Over the years, the company has expanded its international presence and now operates in numerous markets around the world.

With more than 165,000 lifts installed worldwide and 14 million daily users, MP Lifts has become one of the main operators in the European lift sector. The company combines technological innovation with a strong commitment to safety and customer service, while continuing to strengthen its position in international markets.

MP Lifts, a European company with more than 1,200 employees and operations in over 100 countries worldwide, proudly welcomes the Czech company Výtahy Bestlift to the MP family. This step marks the beginning of a new chapter while preserving the company’s strong local roots and family-oriented spirit.

With the addition of Výtahy Bestlift, MP Lifts’ lift portfolio in the Czech Republic increases by 500 units, strengthening its position in Prague and continuing its expansion in Brno.

Výtahy Bestlift will continue operating as it has until now, maintaining its close customer relationships and commitment to personalised service. With the support of MP’s technological expertise, engineering capabilities, and international experience, the company is now further strengthened to deliver smart elevation solutions.

This new stage reinforces the combination of strong local proximity with solid international backing — creating greater value, capability and long-term confidence for employees, customers and partners.

About MP Lifts

MP Lifts, with more than 30 years of experience in the lift industry, specialises in the design, manufacturing, installation, modernisation and maintenance of lifts and mobility solutions for buildings. Over the years, the company has expanded its international presence and now operates in numerous markets around the world.

With more than 165,000 lifts installed worldwide and 14 million daily users, MP Lifts has become one of the main operators in the European lift sector. The company combines technological innovation with a strong commitment to safety and customer service, while continuing to strengthen its position in international markets.

The new MP Lifts School 2026 course begins in a few weeks, with a full schedule of live training sessions and free webinars aimed at MP Distributors. In these sessions, our experts will explain the latest product developments and updates in our sector, as well as providing a space to ask questions directly to our specialists.

The programme includes training focused on different areas of interest, including:

• New MP GO 200x lift
• New MP Flex 200 lift and scaffolding-free assembly
• Updates in the MP SERVICENTER online shop
• Updates in the MP Deby online configurator
• New MP SynGO Modern car door
• Launch of the New Style car model
• EN 81-71, EN 81-72 and EN 81-76 Standards
• Connected lifts and cibersecurity
• Modernisations and improvements in COMBI kits
• ISO 8100 Standard

At MP Lifts, we are firmly committed to continuous training. Therefore, we encourage you to review the full calendar to find the sessions most interesting to you. As every year, you will receive an email a few days before every training session containing all the information you need to get registered and access the course.

The new MP Lifts School 2026 programme is about to begin!

The Board of Directors of MP has approved the appointment of Rafael Ruiz Nieto as the new CEO of MP Lifts, effective from 27 January 2026, as part of a long-planned succession process designed to ensure an orderly generational transition and the continuity of the company’s strategic plan.

Rafael Ruiz Nieto, who has been with MP since 1999 and has served as Deputy Managing Director until now, assumes full executive responsibility with the aim of driving a new phase of profitable growth, guided by the values that define the organisation: safety, innovation, closeness, integrity and excellence.

The current CEO, Eugenio Barroso, will remain connected to the company in a non-executive role, focused on institutional support, knowledge transfer and corporate representation, facilitating a gradual transition aligned with the group’s future.

MP Lifts is an industrial, technological and services company specialising in elevation solutions, with revenues exceeding €178 million, more than 1,200 employees, and operations in over 100 countries.

Eugenio Barroso and Rafael Ruiz Nieto

Bringing European engineering excellence to India’s vertical mobility industry

YugX Lifts Private Limited (“YugX”), India’s emerging premium elevator brand, has officially signed a strategic partnership with MP Lifts, one of Europe’s leading elevator manufacturers headquartered in Seville, Spain.

This collaboration marks MP’s formal entry into the Indian market, bringing its globally acclaimed technology, design expertise, and safety standards to India’s fast-evolving vertical mobility sector.

A new era of connections

Under the partnership, YugX will represent and distribute MP’s complete range of elevator systems across India, offering solutions for residential, commercial, and infrastructure projects. The partnership aims to combine MP’s world-class European engineering with YugX’s local market expertise, installation capability, and service network to deliver elevators that are safer, smarter, and more aesthetic — designed for India’s diverse architectural landscape.

“For us, this partnership isn’t just about business expansion — it’s about setting new benchmarks for quality and experience in the Indian elevator industry” said Anurag Gupta, Founder & Managing Director, YugX.

“Many expected our next move to be a bigger step into the lift industry, and I believe this collaboration with MP — one of Europe’s most respected elevator companies — is that step forward.”

European innovation, made for India

MP Lifts, with over 165,000 installations across more than 100 countries, is recognized for its cutting-edge engineering, smart digital services, design innovation, and long-standing reputation for reliability. The company’s entry into India through YugX represents a strategic milestone in its international expansion, aligning with the country’s growing demand for modern, efficient, and safety-driven elevator systems.

“India is one of the most exciting and dynamic markets in the world for vertical mobility,” said Eugenio Barroso, CEO, MP Lifts.

“Partnering with YugX allows us to combine our European heritage in technology and design with local expertise and on-ground commitment. Together, we are confident of redefining the elevator experience for Indian customers.”

Building for the future

YugX, backed by a strong domestic network and an experienced leadership team, plans to establish MP-certified experience centers and service infrastructure across key Indian cities. The company’s strategy includes developing a franchise model and a thorough phased validation to ensure reliable installation, after-sales service, and training aligned with MP’s global quality standards.

The partnership reinforces YugX’s brand purpose — “Elevating Lives, Connecting Spaces” — and reflects a shared vision between the two companies to make every journey between floors safe, effortless, reliable, and beautifully human.

About MP Lifts
Founded in 1988 and headquartered in Seville, Spain, MP Lifts (Mac Puarsa) is one of Europe’s leading manufacturers of elevators, components, modernisation solutions and smart digital services. With presence in over 100 countries and a strong R&D culture, MP is known for its emphasis on safety, innovation, design, and closeness.

About YugX Lifts Private Limited
Based in Vadodara, India, YugX is a premium elevator brand dedicated to redefining vertical mobility through technology, service, and design. With a clear focus on customer experience and engineering excellence, YugX aims to bridge global innovation with local needs to create sustainable growth across India’s elevator industry.

MP Lifts has signed a financing agreement with five of Europe’s leading financial institutions, thus marking a decisive milestone in its history. This agreement provides the company with a sound and flexible financial structure, which will allow to deploy in a guaranteed way its new Strategic Plan 2025-2027, recently approved by the Board of Management.

This plan sets the course for the next three years with a focus on profitable growth, increased productivity, operational excellence and digital transformation. All this, with a value proposal centred on the customer and safety as core principles. After successfully developing the strategic plans of the last few years, MP is once again looking to the future with responsibility and renewed ambition.

A forward-looking plan

The company’s 2025-2027 Strategic Plan is articulated around five main lines of action. Firstly, financial soundness and inorganic growth, as the new financing will enable strategic acquisitions in the maintenance area to be undertaken and economies of scale to be optimised.

Also noteworthy is commercial growth; through the consolidation of the main European markets and the drive to modernisation, MP lays the foundations for tackling the new challenges demanded by the market, especially in terms of modernisation and tailored maintenance of the existing pool of lifts.

Another of its strengths is operational excellence and digital transformation, with projects for optimising processes, and implementation of artificial intelligence for improving productivity and service quality.

Furthermore, it is developing an update of its product portfolio, with new ranges of products with proprietary technology to adapt to the challenges of accessibility, urban rehabilitation and energy efficiency.

It also seeks to strengthen its commitment to people and sustainability, by reinforcing MP’s appeal as an employer and integrating sustainability into its day-to-day operating procedures.

Leader in customised solutions

MP Lifts is thus positioned as a company at the forefront of intelligent solutions for the mobility of people in buildings, with a strong technological base and a presence on all five continents, a highly integrated network of distributors and a clear focus on service and the long term.

With this new financing and the roadmap outlined in its 2025-2027 Plan, MP is more than ever ready to face the challenges of the sector and lead a period of profitable growth with a positive impact on people and the environment.