Today, 13th February 2017 eight companies came together in Düsseldorf to found the NeXt group. After an intensive discussion about the structure, membership fees and the rules of the organization, the participants of the meeting voted unanimously to found the NeXt group, the rules of the Verein and the membership fees.
Then the board of NeXt group was voted. Chairman is Kjell Johansson (Hydroware, Sweden), director of the Business committee is Geert Maurissen (SafeLine Europe) and director of the Technical committee is Jörg Hellmich (ELFIN, Germany).

In the last month we worked out the ideas, the structure, the rules and the rules of contribution of the NeXt group.
On Monday 13th February 2017 the founding members will meet in Düsseldorf to found the new industrial consortium NeXt group. After the registration of the association we will invite everybody to become a member too.

On September 2nd six companies met in Dusseldorf to discuss details to found the NeXt group. 

At the SafeLine partner seminar SafeLine announced the Thor project, an open hardware and software platform for lifts.