Hydraulic Elevators
Piston-driven lifts for low-rise buildings — minimal headroom, no load on the roof structure, exceptionally smooth.
- Ideal for 2 – 6 floors
- No load on the roof structure
- Low headroom requirement
- Manual lowering on power failure
Overview
Why our hydraulic range
For two to six floors, hydraulics remain the practical answer. The load goes into the pit rather than the roof, so there is no overhead machine structure and the building takes less structural design effort.
We use single- and telescopic-ram configurations with soft-start valves for a ride that is difficult to distinguish from a modern traction lift at these travels.
Typical applications
- Low-rise commercial buildings
- Heavy goods lifts in factories
- Heritage buildings with structural limits
- Car and automobile lifts
Technical specifications
- Capacity
- 400 kg – 5000 kg
- Speed
- 0.15 – 0.63 m/s
- Travel
- Up to 18 m (typically 2 – 6 floors)
- Ram type
- Direct, telescopic or side-acting
- Headroom
- From 2700 mm
- Power pack
- Remote cabinet, up to 10 m from shaft
- Rescue
- Manual gravity lowering
- Roof load
- None — load transferred to pit
Specifications are indicative. Every dimension, finish and control configuration can be customised to your building — send us your shaft drawing for an exact proposal.
Features
What is inside the specification
The engineering decisions that make the difference between a lift that works and a lift that keeps working.
Direct or side-acting rams
Single-stage, telescopic or side-acting jack arrangements chosen to suit pit depth, travel and available shaft space.
Soft-start valve control
Proportional valves ramp pressure smoothly so starts and stops are gentle even under full load — a big advantage for freight duty.
Compact power pack
The tank, pump and valve block sit in a small cabinet that can be located up to 10 m from the shaft, including on a lower floor.
Gravity lowering
On power failure a hand valve lowers the car to the nearest landing under gravity — simple, reliable rescue with no batteries required.
Questions
Hydraulic FAQs
Cannot find your question? Call us — we would rather talk it through than have you guess.
Are hydraulic lifts more expensive to run?
They draw more power on the up trip and almost none going down. For low travel and low-to-moderate cycle counts the difference is small; for busy high-rise duty we would specify traction instead.
Next step
Request a quotation for hydraulic elevators
Send us the shaft dimensions and number of stops and we will return a layout, specification and itemised price.
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