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Providing Guidance
Although escalators represent only about 3% of the total equipment installed by our industry, they are the most prominent features in the buildings and facilities in which they are installed. And, in shopping centers, department stores, airports and public-transit systems, they are essential. From their crude beginnings as freight conveyors Otis called “inclined elevators” during […]
Otis Launches CompassPlus
[…] Angeles; LUMINA, also known as 201 Folsom St., in San Francisco; and the latest Amazon building in Seattle. The first running installation will likely be a modernization project scheduled for completion in mid 2014. “In the last seven years, the industry has accepted technology,” Armas said. “What makes CompassPlus unique is it brings back […]
Thyssenkrupp Elevator Acquires Cleveland Company
[…] at Rick Husband Amarillo International Airport in Amarillo, Texas, are being replaced thanks to a roughly US$3-million Federal Aviation Administration(FAA) grant, connectamarillo.com reports. Airport officials expect the project to take about a year. The FAA is covering about 90% of the cost to replace the 20-year-old escalators. Massive San Francisco Rail Project Starts Construction […]
1906 Elevator Lives On in Revitalized Downtown
[…] partner in the U.A.E. He actively participated in various departments and worked in such disparate areas as product sales, installation, maintenance, quality assurance/quality control (QA/QC), elevator engineering, project management, operations, planning and contract management. During Iqbal’s tenure at Mitsubishi Elevator, the company had considered itself in a pioneer position in the U.A.E. elevator market. […]
Mohamed Iqbal, EW Correspondent and Managing Director of Toshiba Elevator Middle East
[…] partner in the U.A.E. He actively participated in various departments and worked in such disparate areas as product sales, installation, maintenance, quality assurance/quality control (QA/QC), elevator engineering, project management, operations, planning and contract management. During Iqbal’s tenure at Mitsubishi Elevator, the company had considered itself in a pioneer position in the U.A.E. elevator market. […]
South Korea: Asia’s Growing Giant
[…] declined, Chinese elevator companies have entered the market. One example is Canny Elevator Co., Ltd., which has been one of the largest suppliers of the Korea Subway project since 2006. To date, it has supplied more than 400 escalators to South Korea. Choi describes the country’s elevator industry as stable, because the replacement of […]
Built on Humble Roots, Sweden’s Alimak Hek Develops Rack-and-Pinion Lifts for Iconic Structures
[…] Alimak Verken becoming a dominant player in the market. The company’s introduction of its rack-and-pinion hoist ended up playing a major role in the Swedish government’s “Million Project,” Gunleiksrud said, the goal of which was to build one million housing units within 10 years. The company started by a construction worker who borrowed SEK500 […]
Elevator U at ISU
[…] upcoming features that will be presented in ELEVATOR WORLD, ELEVATOR WORLD India and on the EW websites at www.elevatorworld.com. Adam Braman of Helios ESG then explained how project- management software can be implemented and applied to all aspects of an elevator company’s business. As the 2013 EU Conference drew to a close, it was […]
Lift Expo Russia 2013
[…] companies belonging to the European associations European Lift Component Association and ANICA (Italian elevator components association). In addition, university students within the elevator industry presented their thesis projects, and a workshop about entering the profession of technical elevator maintenance was held. As stated by the participants and guests, the main goal of the exhibition […]
A Houser Horizontal Hydraulic Elevator Engine, Part One
[…] Salina Street, which, as far as the realtor knew, had no elevator. As is common when moving into a new building, Ritch pursued a number of renovation projects. One of these involved demolishing a basement wall, behind which he found an elevator engine that had been built in the early 1890s by Houser Elevator […]