Bucher Hydraulics is a leading international manufacturer developing and producing customised system solutions for Elevator hydraulics. With its production facilities and distribution companies operating worldwide they ensure proximity to their customers. Its parent company, Bucher Industries, is a Swiss-based globally-operating technology group maintaining manufacturing facilities around the world with some 7,900 employees and total sales of $ 1.5 billion in 2010. The Elevator branch provides airports, railway stations, shopping centres, residential blocks and commercial buildings with the extremely reliable hydraulic elevator drives with electronically controlled valves, designed for travel heights up to 25 m and payloads from 320 kg to 40 000 kg or more.