Jordi Corominas

28/8/1944-18/5/09

After a long illness, Jordi Corominas passed away on Monday, May 18, 2009, surrounded by his family.

Jordi always had an interest in everything mechanical. As a young man, his motorbike was an extension of himself. The beginning of his professional career was related to road and maritime transportation, as that was his father's business. Later, this time on his own, he continued working near large freighters, until, with the entry of Spain into the European Union –and the subsequent elimination of certain boundaries– he strove for new horizons. And in his search, he came across the lift sector, which he quickly made his own, and to which he gave the best moments of his professional and personal life. Jordi, who quickly understood the functioning of lifts and their components, and especially what their manufacturers and distributors needed, was the soul of Vertical Report from 1998.

Those who shared those moments with him recall how a publication that emerged from a fair idea was born; an idea that until then he had been unable to implement, and which finally, with a free path ahead, proved to be exactly right, both for its professionalism and for its apt guidance. Vertical Report is and will always be a publication with an international appeal, as are the other publications with which such good relations were formed, stemming from a strong sense of serving the vertical transportation sector.

In 2003, EleEspaña was also born, a trade show which has grown thanks to his encouragement and which, even in difficult economic times, has enough know-how to carry on.

Jordi Corominas entered into this industry and forged an exceptional network of good relations, with which he endeavoured to do his best for the sector from his office every day. Jordi established something more than just a business relationship with his customers. His success was always based on his kindness, proving that we can be professionals and personable at the same time. And there rests a job well done. You take nothing when you go, but he takes all his achievements with him, and leaves us with his indelible memory.