Solutions for the lift industry.

Our premium lift equipment and services have been engineered specifically with lift professionals in mind.

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New Lift Packages

Service, Goods, Platform and Passenger lift packages when food, goods and people need transporting between floors.

Lifts & Trade Services

Our new lift packages together with trade-focused support services including installation and full project management.

Lift Components

Lift Controllers and other essential lift components for the mechanical and electrical modernisation of any existing lift.

Lift Spares

Essential lift spare parts from the leading lift manufacturers for the servicing, repair and maintenance of lifts.

About us

Since 1945 the Shorts name has been an integral part of the lift industry. In that time we have evolved into experts, providing new lift packages for installation, lift component products for modernisation and lift spare parts for repair to the UK and Ireland's leading lift installation and maintenance companies.

Working closely with the world's foremost lift manufacturers and suppliers, we continually expand and adapt our product portfolio. It is this unique approach, together with the relationships we forge, that creates the perfect platform for us to provide fully tailored solutions to many conventional and unconventional lift related requirements.

Our premium lift equipment and services have been engineered specifically with lift professionals in mind.

Our History Corporate and Social Responsibility Supply Partners

Our vision

Our vision is to alleviate our customers of the difficulties and problems associated with sourcing lift equipment from multiple different manufacturers, who are located all over the world.

We will do this by being a single-source supplier, providing both equipment and services that fully support our customers across all areas of their lift related requirements; from new lift installation, lift modernisation or lift maintenance, we endeavour to make lift equipment sourcing easy.

Our work

Borough Market, London

Set within Borough Market, London this project required us to design, supply and install a large 2000kg Goods Only Goodsmover lift.

Grand Theatre, Leeds

Our installation of a Machinery Directive compliant passenger lift, within the Grand Theatre, Leeds is a great example of our range of Specialist Passenger Lifts.

Halo Building, London

Set in the Halo Building, One Mabledon Place, this project required us to design, supply and install a bank of four 20kg capacity automatic dumbwaiter service lifts.