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KONE Wins Order For Eight Stations for China’s New Line S2

KONE has won an order to supply a suite of people flow solutions for the new metro line S2 on the Nanjing to Ma’anshan intercity rail in East China. The...

Hitachi Awarded Largest Contract in Singapore for 450 Lifts

Hitachi, Ltd. announced that Hitachi Elevator Asia Pte. Ltd. has been awarded the supply and installation of 450 lifts by the Housing & Development Board (HBD) in Singapore for high-rise...

TEI Provides Five-Elevator System for Brooklyn, NY, Tower

TEI tells ELEVATOR WORLD it is providing a five-unit elevator system for 98 Dekalb Avenue, a 610-ft-tall, 49-story tower designed by SLCE Architects and developed by Rockrose Development in Fort...

Knowsley Lift Services Celebrates Completion of Wales Job

Liverpool, U.K.-headquartered Knowsley Lift Services Ltd. recently celebrated the successful completion of a project that involved installing a new, 650-kg, five-floor lift manufactured by CTV Lifts of Málaga, Spain, for...

MET Sponsors PropertyGuru Thailand Property Awards

Mitsubishi Elevator (Thailand) (MET) is a Platinum Sponsor of the PropertyGuru Thailand Property Awards, planned on September 20 in Bangkok, for the third consecutive year. The 19th iteration of the...

Nidec Announces New Identity for Elevator Business

Nidec Corp. has announced a new, streamlined, unifying identity for its elevator business: Nidec Elevator, headquartered in Rancho Cordova, California. The business unit boasts a legacy of business brands, including...

Cibes Lift Group To Acquire Morning Star Elevator

Cibes Lift Group has entered into an agreement to acquire Colorado-based Morning Star Elevator, a leading distributor in the residential elevator and vertical platform lift segment. This strategic acquisition aims...

Access BDD Attends NDA Conference in Atlanta

Access BDD U.K. team members recently attended the annual Next Day Access (NDA) Conference in Atlanta. As one of NDA’s leading North American business partners, Access BDD showed its support...

Otis Selected by SMRT Trains to Service 498 VT Units

Singapore's SMRT Trains has selected Otis to service 498 vertical-transportation (VT) units — 446 escalators and 52 elevators — on the North-South and East-West Lines (NSEWL) for five years, Otis...

South Dakota National Park Getting Elevator Rebuild

Wind Cave National Park in southwest South Dakota will suspend cave tours on May 1 to accommodate a “complete overhaul of the elevator system,” which has been problematic for several...

NEW JERSEY TRANSIT BOD PLAN TO REPLACE ESCALATORS

New Jersey Transit BoD Plan to Replace Escalators

WEEF HOLDS SECOND IN-PERSON MEETING IN FRANKFURT

WEEF Holds Second In-Person Meeting in Frankfurt

The Torch at 640 Eighth Avenue takes its place on the Midtown Manhattan skyline; rendering courtesy of ODA and SLCE Architects

TEI Group Awarded Major 30-Unit Contract at The Torch

TKE CONSIDERING US$22.7-BILLION IPO IN U.S. IN 2026

TKE Considering US$22.7-Billion IPO in U.S. in 2026

Hiyaa Towers; image courtesy of Architecture Association Maldives

Progress Made on Elevator Installation in Maldive Towers