The spiral staircase of a historic palazzo with a glass lift at its centre, seen from below

Travelling
vertically since 1973

Lifts, escalators and platform lifts. Designed, built and maintained from Turin and Prato.

How we work
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A bespoke lift does not start from a catalogue. It starts from the shaft, from the architect's drawing and from the people who will ride it every day.

Gruppo Simet has manufactured and installed lifts in Turin since 1973. Delta Ascensori, in Prato, takes them to site in Tuscany and abroad. One counterpart from survey to handover.

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A glass and steel tower with a panoramic lift on a rooftop at sunset

How we work

From drawing to inspection, in twenty seconds

A panoramic lift from the first site visit to handover. Scroll to follow it.

01Survey

The drawing starts with the place

Shaft, structure and landscape are measured on site, before any catalogue is opened.

The glass and steel tower of the panoramic lift at sunset, with the Simet plate

02The cabin

What the passenger sees

Brushed steel, indirect light, a continuous handrail: every surface is chosen with the designer.

The steel cabin interior, with sunset light coming through the open door

03The site

Assembly follows the scaffold

The structure rises in modules and the crew works at height under ISO 45001 certified procedures.

The tower under construction with scaffolding and orange netting, a technician at the top

04The controller

Inspection runs through the control panel

The technician checks every function from the panel and the tablet, before the first passenger rides.

The technician in a hard hat in front of the open control cabinet, tablet in hand

05Electronics

Maintenance starts here

Boards and sensors log every trip: whoever maintains the lift reads the data before opening the panel.

The electronic board of the control panel, with orange terminals

06Handover

Two lifts, one counterpart

Simet builds and installs, Delta follows the site: from signature to the inspection certificate.

The two panoramic glass lifts on the rooftop at sunset

Projects

Systems that have worked for decades

The glass and steel shaft of a lift on a railway platform
Borgo Val di Taro stationExternal panoramic lift
An escalator just lowered into its well, in a shopping centre under construction
Shopping centreEscalator installation
The crane lifting an escalator truss in a square at night
Historic centreNight lift
The open control panel beside a glass lift shaft
Glass shaftControl panel
The external steel tower of a lift against a warehouse
Industrial buildingExternal steel lift
A stone staircase with metal handrails, before installation
Internal staircaseSurvey before installation

In numbers

1973the year of the first
lift in Turin
2offices,
Turin and Prato
7certificates
for public tenders
OS4 Vthe SOA class,
works up to 5.16 million
24 hthe toll-free line
always answers

The photographs are from Gruppo Simet sites.

For tenders

The paperwork in order, before the quote

Seven valid certificates and the framework agreement for maintaining public lifts across Piedmont.

  • 01 ISO 9001:2015 Quality management system IMQ, CISQ e IQNet
  • 02 Direttiva 2014/33/UE, Allegato XI Full quality assurance for lifts IMQ, organismo notificato
  • 03 ISO 14001:2015 Environmental management system SCK Certifications
  • 04 ISO 45001:2018 Occupational health and safety Sistema
  • 05 ISO 37001:2016 Anti-bribery management SCK Certifications
  • 06 SA8000:2014 Social accountability TÜV Italia
  • 07 SOA OS4, classifica V Qualification for public works Bentley SOA

Tell us what needs to go up

A shaft, a level change, a lift that has stopped. We answer within one working day.

Offices

For faults the toll-free number answers around the clock, every day, from Italy.