Category: 50 years

50 years of lift table engineering and design

Computer-aided design workstation in the Cefam design office in 1989

Since Cefam Atlas was founded in the late 1960s, the design office has been one of the pillars of the company’s smooth running. Both the number of draughtsmen and their working methods have changed considerably over 50 years. Here are the three main stages in the history of the design office: THE PAPER AGE: In the early days, in the 1970s, drawings were produced by hand by the draughtsmen on drawing boards, then traced out as clean copies by the…

1977: aeronautics at the service of CEFAM!

Row of yellow mobile lift tables in the workshop, 1977 Cefam archive photo for the aeronautics sector

CEFAM Atlas would go on to become a major player in its sector, offering ever more innovative lift tables. Discover this remarkable year! The year 1977 was marked by major technical changes in lift table design. The most important of these concerned the positioning of the hydraulic cylinders. Until then, the base-frame cylinder technique had been used: this method consisted of placing the foot of the cylinder on the base frame and pushing against the table platform. The new technique,…