BASE is the independent UK specialist for Nami platform and accessibility lifts, covering indoor, outdoor and Equality Act accessibility units plus the legacy pre-2000 installed base. Nami has built lifts in Tollarp, Sweden since 1944 — we service the UK base independently, with no OEM tie and 24/7 emergency call-out.
BASE Lift Services is the independent UK specialist for the Nami installed base. We are not part of any Nami distributor network — which means our service contracts, parts pricing, and modernise-versus-replace advice arrive without an OEM commission line attached. The same engineers also look after the passenger lifts in the building, so a mixed portfolio gets one contract and one phone number.
Nami is one of the rare lift brands where the manufacturer story is genuinely useful information for a UK building owner. The company is multi-generational, single-site, and engineering-led. Tractor trolleys taught the workshop how to build load-bearing machinery. Hydraulic platform lifts for Carl Ljungberg in the mid-1970s taught it how to scale a vertical-accessibility product. Forty years later, the result is a low-speed, advanced-pre-assembly platform lift that finishes quickly on a UK site — indoors or out.
BASE services the UK Nami installed base, managed by a multi-discipline team and Technical Director with approaching four decades of platform and passenger lift experience. We are not a Nami distributor and we do not earn commission from Tollarp on parts or new units. That independence is the entire point: the recommendation we give on a modernise-versus-replace question is the one our engineer would give on a lift in his own building.
The same engineering team also covers passenger lifts in the buildings where your Nami platform lift lives — Otis, Kone, Schindler, ThyssenKrupp, Orona, Mitsubishi, Stannah — so a mixed-fleet building gets one contract, one quarterly report, and one phone number.
Nils P Jonsson establishes Nami in southern Sweden, beginning with the production of tractor trolleys. The discipline of building load-bearing machinery for working farms shapes the engineering culture the company carries into lifts decades later.
A new modern workshop is added under Ivar Jonsson, the second generation of the Jonsson family. The workshop is the production base from which Nami's lift programme is developed.
Nami begins producing metal hydraulic platform lifts for Carl Ljungberg in the mid-1970s. By 1980 platform lifts are the company's core focus — a deliberate shift from agricultural plant into vertical accessibility.
Nami enters the wider European and UK markets in 1998. Today, with offices and production facilities in Tollarp, Sweden, the company is recognised across Western Europe for tailored platform and accessibility lifts — indoor and outdoor, low-speed, with advanced pre-assembly for fast site finishing.
Every spec below comes from real engineer time on Nami platform and accessibility lifts across the UK, not a datasheet. The "common faults" column is what our engineers stock on the van for first-visit fix on each configuration.
Nami indoor platform
Indoor metal hydraulic platform lift (current production)
Nami outdoor platform
Outdoor / weather-rated platform lift
Nami accessibility / disabled lift
Accessibility-spec platform (Equality Act / Approved Document M)
Legacy Nami units (pre-2000)
Early UK / European installed base
Indoor metal hydraulic platform lift (current production)
Common faults
Common faults we attend: power-pack solenoid, level-sensor alignment, hall-call communications, door interlock micro-switches, COP keypad refurbishment.
Outdoor / weather-rated platform lift
Common faults
Common faults: weather-seal degradation, drain blockage at the pit, heater control on cold-start, outdoor COP corrosion. We stock weather-rated replacements.
Accessibility-spec platform (Equality Act / Approved Document M)
Common faults
Common faults: pressure-mat fault, key-switch wear, override/key-fob failure, audible signalling boards. We carry parts compatible with the Tollarp production set.
Early UK / European installed base
Common faults
Common faults: obsolete relay logic, ageing PLC outputs, button-pad assemblies discontinued by the OEM — we source tested UK-compatible replacements domestically.
If your Nami unit predates the 1998 UK market entry, or sits on a controller revision not listed above, send the serial number and a photograph of the controller to enquiries@baselifts.co.uk. We will confirm whether it sits inside the scope of our standard contract or needs a one-off specialist assessment.
80+ years of continuous Swedish lift engineering. The Jonsson family started with tractor trolleys, refined the metal hydraulic platform lift, and built a brand UK building managers still buy today.
BASE is managed by a multi-discipline team and Technical Director with approaching four decades of platform and passenger lift experience. Most of the current UK Nami installed base sits inside that working memory — controller revisions, common faults, parts compatibility.
Emergency call-out for Nami platform and accessibility lifts. Senior engineer triage on every inbound call. Same-day London visits the norm.
Production facility in Tollarp, Sweden; independent UK service team in London. We hold the most-requested Nami consumables on the van for first-visit fix.
“We inherited a Nami platform lift on the rear entrance when we took over the building. The previous contract had lapsed and no one in the UK seemed to want to touch it. BASE turned up, identified the controller revision in fifteen minutes, and had the lift running cleanly the following week. It's been on a quarterly contract ever since.”
Stephen K.
Estates Manager
Mixed-use retail / office, West London
“Our accessibility lift is a Nami outdoor unit and it had been failing on cold-starts every winter. The previous service company kept replacing the same board. BASE traced it to the heater control and a corroded outdoor COP, replaced both, and the lift has gone through two winters without a call-out since.”
Maria L.
Care Home Director
Residential care home, Surrey
“We were being quoted a full replacement on a Nami unit that, frankly, didn't need it. BASE surveyed the lift, refurbished the power pack, replaced the COP keypad, and saved us a five-figure capex line. Independent advice on a Swedish-built platform lift is rare in the UK and worth holding on to.”
David O.
Facilities Director
Listed building portfolio
Every Nami contract starts with a survey, not a price list. Tell us the configuration (indoor, outdoor, accessibility, or legacy pre-2000), the building, and the current contract position — and a senior engineer will respond inside 24 working hours with a fixed annual figure.
Or email enquiries@baselifts.co.uk with the lift serial number and a photo of the controller