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SUCCESSFUL<br />
OPERATION<br />
FOR BULACCES<br />
IN SOFIA<br />
In the around 100-year-old<br />
university in Sofia, repair works<br />
were needed on the colourful<br />
windows set in lead. The works<br />
on the 10 m high windows and<br />
on the ceiling should be carried<br />
out from a stair landing.<br />
#YourRuthmannStory<br />
Done: The BLUELIFT SA 18 HB stands at the planned place and can begin with the works - the<br />
100-year-old marble staircase survives the contribution undamaged.<br />
More than 50 steps must be overcome in<br />
the university in Sofia before the machine<br />
weighing only 2,200 kg reaches its place of<br />
operation.<br />
A big challenge but one for which<br />
our BLUELIFT SA 18 HB seemed<br />
to be made. With a weight of<br />
just over 2 tons, the load on the<br />
100-year-old marble staircase and<br />
the risk of breaking it were very<br />
low.<br />
After a thorough inspection of<br />
the site, the operation could start<br />
a few days later. By using lots of<br />
underlay material, the team around<br />
Sava Dimitrov wanted to tackle this<br />
challenge.<br />
The BLUELIFT SA 18 HB with its<br />
powerful battery rides very slowly<br />
up the numerous steps over the<br />
wooden planks always strictly<br />
observed by the team so that there<br />
are no surprises.<br />
After about one hour, it’s done:<br />
The BLUELIFT SA 18 HB stands on<br />
the planned stair landing and the<br />
works on the windows can begin.<br />
120 YEARS RUTHMANN - THE BEGIN OF A FRIENDSHIP<br />
A large painting company - neighbour<br />
of our scaffolding company in<br />
Cologne-Braunsfeld - “suddenly”<br />
had a truck-mounted working platform<br />
(Maltech = a Swiss painting<br />
company) on its premises for its<br />
own use and for rent. As a scaffolding<br />
contractor, this made me<br />
aware of the possibility of renting<br />
lifts.<br />
So we, as scaffolders from Cologne<br />
(scaffolding regular table), visited<br />
the working platforms exhibited at<br />
bauma and thus we got in touchwith<br />
the company Ruthmann.<br />
The common interest in an alternative<br />
to scaffoldings ultimately led to<br />
an association of concurrent companies<br />
founding a conjoint working<br />
platform rental company in Mai<br />
1981 which is still successful today.<br />
During the foundation phase, the<br />
name “Mobilift” working platform<br />
rental has been created.<br />
In the course of the years, a good<br />
and friendly business relationship<br />
developed with Ruthmann which<br />
ended in a visit to Ruthmann where<br />
the mutual “Du” (you) was agreed.<br />
It turned out that we Cologne<br />
people and the Ruthmann people<br />
indulge a common hobby, namely<br />
celebrating carnival. This, on the<br />
other hand, led to mutual visits<br />
to carnival events in Coesfeld or<br />
Cologne.<br />
This friendship still continues today,<br />
with business and private matters<br />
being kept strictly separate without<br />
any problems.<br />
Remembered and written down on<br />
20 th July <strong>2021</strong><br />
Udo Feldbusch<br />
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