13.01.2026

Denka to Denmark

Danish church renovation specialist Dansk Kirkekalk has taken delivery of an 18 metre Denka Lift DK18 telescopic trailer lift through distributor and manufacturer Rothlehner Arbeitsbühnen.

The DK18 has a maximum working height of 18 metres, an outreach of 11.3 metres and an unrestricted platform capacity of 200kg. When stowed, its overall length is 7.8 metres, height is 1.99 metres and overall width on the road is 1.8 metres. The total weight is 1,975kg.

Rothlehner managing director, Manfred Rothlehner, said: “With the sale of over 2,500 Denka Lifts, our company has grown since we became a Denka dealer in the 1980s. Since 2014, we have been manufacturing these trailer mounted work platforms in Germany, so selling a Denka back to the country where it was born is, of course, a source of pride, especially as the Reenberg family knows the benefits of these machines very well.”

Michael Reenberg of Dansk Kirkekalk added: “We have worked with Denka Lift platforms for decades and have had the best experiences with them, even under our often very demanding working conditions. After 30 years of hard use, it was time to invest in a new machine.”

Established in 1976, Danish truck and trailer manufacturer Denka filed for bankruptcy in 2012, but the name was rescued and the product line resuscitated by Rothlehner, when it purchased the rights to the Denka Lift designs in 2013 and moved production to Massing in Bavaria. The new German built Denkas began coming offline in 2014.