A well-built lift table, goods lift or lifting platform can remain in service for decades. A retrofit gives it a second life.

A retrofit means upgrading existing equipment: restoring it, bringing it into compliance and, where necessary, adapting it to your new operating conditions. We carry out retrofits in every industrial sector, including the railway sector.

Compliance upgrades, at the heart of every retrofit

This is the most important point. Older equipment was built to the rules of its time. Since then, the regulations have changed, and its conditions of use sometimes have too. A compliance upgrade may then become mandatory: it is part of every retrofit we carry out.

Example: on equipment without a pilot-operated check valve, we fit a pilot-operated check valve at the base of the cylinder.

We draw on our command of the regulations and standards, and on our experience of the CE certification of equipment for lifting persons. If the modification is significant, for example an increase in capacity, we also study its consequences for the CE marking of the equipment.

Why choose a retrofit?

• keep equipment that is already integrated into your installation;
• bring your equipment into compliance;
• adapt it to your new needs;
• reduce material consumption by extending the life of existing equipment.

What we can upgrade

Here are some examples of work completed or in progress on pit-mounted lift tables, lifting platforms and drawbridges:

• Structure: complete platform, platform dimensions, guardrails and handrails, gates, bridging plates;
• Capacity: increase in the rated load;
• Movement: hydraulic cylinders, hydraulic power unit, lowered position;
• Electrics and controls: wiring, control cabinet, updated diagrams, connection to the building management system;
• Safety: safety relays, sensitive edges, signal lights, position switches, including for ATEX zones.

Our method

• Identification: using the serial number on the nameplate, we retrieve the manufacturing records of the equipment from our archives;
• Study: our design office defines what needs to be restored, brought into compliance or adapted;
• Manufacturing: our workshops in Saintes produce the necessary parts and assemblies;
• Installation: our after-sales service carries out the work and returns the equipment to service.

Your older equipment, our archives

Atlas Lift keeps the manufacturing records of every piece of equipment. This also applies to equipment bearing our former brand, ‘Fabrications Atlas’, or our former name, CEFAM. We demonstrated this with a lift table more than 30 years old, whose original drawing was still in our archives. We also work on equipment from other manufacturers.

Do you have equipment that needs upgrading? Note the serial number on its nameplate and contact us.