Here’s a last look at the last party of the 2018 National Association of Elevator Contractors Annual Convention and Expo. The Dregs Party took place September 27 at The Wild Wild West bar at Bally’s Casino in Atlantic City, and the “outlaws” who took part sure seemed to have gotten into the spirit. Attendees cut…
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Clever solutions for a variety of industry challenges thyssenkrupp Digitizes Stairlift Sales Process thyssenkrupp Elevator has begun using its HoloLinc, a fully digitalized sales process for the stairlift industry. Developed in partnership with Zühlke and Microsoft, it is equipped to 120 sales representatives to, the company says, “significantly speed up the process, from measurement to…
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KONE Providing VT for Multitower Shenzhen Project KONE will provide the vertical-transportation (VT) package for Shenzhen Gemdale Center, 48- and 39-story towers connected by a skybridge in Nanshan District High-Tech Industrial Park in Shenzhen, known as “China’s Silicon Valley.” The contract includes 47 MiniSpace® and nine MonoSpace® elevators and 10 TravelMasterTM escalators, along with KONE’s…
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Orbitz Elevators, a fast-growing elevator company on Australia’s Gold Coast, signed a deal with Hitachi to become the Japanese OEM’s first Australian distributor. Orbitz founder and Managing Director Jonathan Dwayre said Hitachi had been looking to get into the Australian market for years, and determined after approximately six months of talks that Orbitz was the…
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Company Gains Greek Distributor KAPOK 88, a family-owned business based in Nottingham that provides custom and modular padded protective drapes for elevator interiors, announced GNV Automation and Elevator Spare Parts of Greece as an official distributor, selling both its made-to-measure and modular products. The partnership brings the number of KAPOK 88 European and Middle Eastern…
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Mississauga, Canada, will soon have a new tallest building, Urban Toronto reported in September, as M3 — an 81-story, 260-m-tall residential tower — is set to begin rising in the M City development. A design for the building, the third in M City, was unveiled by developers Rogers Real Estate and Urban Capital after a…
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78-Story Grande Tower Planned in Dubai’s Opera District Emaar Properties and WSP have selected SSH as the architect for the 78-story Grande Tower in Dubai’s Opera District across from Burj Park and Burj Lake, MEConstructionNews.com reported. The tower will have 866 apartments of varying sizes, amenities and retail within a promenade level, and parking for…
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thyssenkrupp to Spin Off Elevators as Part of Split thyssenkrupp announced on September 27 it would split the company into two listed entities — thyssenkrupp Industrials with roughly 90,000 employees containing the elevator, car parts and plant-engineering divisions, and thyssenkrupp Materials with approximately 40,000 employees containing metals distribution, bearings, forging and naval vessels, as well…
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Residential Tower to Make Heavy Use of Greenery Developer Crescent Heights and architecture firm ODA have released new renderings of 1045 South Olive, a 70-story residential tower planned for downtown Los Angeles, Skyrise Cities reported in September. Based on the renderings, the 247-m-tall building will be notable for its use of vegetation in landscaping and…
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Extell’s 131-Story Central Park Tower Set to Break Records Designed by Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill and developed by Extell, Central Park Tower at 217 West 57th Street in Midtown (ELEVATOR WORLD, March 2015) is set to break records, including the tallest residential skyscraper in the Western Hemisphere. In October, work had surpassed the 100th…
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