More than 20 years ago, Molift’s founder and inventor, the engineer and designer Hans Kasper Andresen, was hospitalised for a long period. And it was there, in his hospital bed, that he got the idea. Hans Kasper, among friends and colleagues only known as Kappern, quickly understood how much strain to their backs, shoulders and arms nurses suffered when lifting or moving men, quite often big and heavy.
Surrounded by sketches jotted down on napkins, scraps of newspapers and magazines, he transformed his idea into what was to become the world’s first battery-powered personal lifter. Kappern’s wife, who is a physiotherapist, provided valuable information about lifting techniques, the strain and injuries wrong lifting can lead to and the importance that lifts are performed so as to avoid aggravating the patient’s condition. Ever since the first Molift lifter was developed, this has indeed been our basic idea: we develop products with functions that copy the body’s natural movement pattern to the largest possible extent.
Today, 20 years later, we are still searching for ideas for unique functions and solutions for our products. What is most important to us is to create products that help improving people's everyday life - products that are Designed for Life.
The Molift head Office is in Oslo, Norway. Molift lifters and Molift Recliners are produced in Gjøvik/Norway, Molift Transfer System in Gausdal/Norway and Molift Beds in Svartå/Sverige.
Molift is established in Norway, Sweden, England and the USA with own companies. Molift makes very strict requirements to quality and functional solutions to all products – and also aims to provide the best service in the market to our customers and users. Our aim is that all our products will do more than satisfy all national and international standards and regulations; several of the products also carry a guarantee for up to 5 years.
• Vision: We give carers better health!
• Our business idea:Molift shall as an international brand company find, develop, market and sell products and methods for moving and handling patients within the healthcare sector.
• Values: Molift is to be
– Solution-oriented
– Caring
– Charming
– Enthusiastic
• Promises: we shall strive to:
– Understanding what is important for the customers
– Have the most satisfied customers
– Being best at our areas
– Being competent in innovation and user-friendly design
