A new Wittur product seeks to serve as an ideal solution for modernization projects. This paper was presented at Madrid 2016, the International Congress on Vertical Transportation Technologies, and first published in IAEE book Elevator Technology 21, edited by A. Lustig. It is a reprint with permission from the International Association of Elevator Engineers …
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Madrid conference focuses on Spain’s small elevator businesses. The European Federation for Elevator Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (EFESME) and Small Business Standards (SBSes) jointly organized the national seminar “Standardization for SMEs: Sectoral Representation at EU Level” in Madrid on September 22. Massimo Bezzi, EFESME vice-president, opened the meeting, welcoming participants and highlighting the importance of…
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A unique system detailed in 1870s Otis drawings, which serve as the first American depiction of a passenger elevator installation from cellar to penthouse. The history of vertical transportation is filled with various “firsts” that identify key points in the development of modern elevator systems. The caution that should be used in evaluating any claim…
Read More Regenerative drives among those discussed for use in high peak current requirements With higher speed inherently comes higher power, in terms of both the energy put into elevator systems and the potential energy returned. As the number of high-rise and supertall building applications increase and higher speeds become more frequent and push new bounds, there…
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Startup recognized as top innovator in Germany, aims to take escalator-handrail sanitation system worldwide. Germany has quite a few business-plan competitions and companies that have won them. In 2015, there were 810 winners, to be exact. Competition organizer fuer-gruender.de ranked which companies were honored most frequently that year. UVIS UV-Innovative Solutions GmbH, a small business-to-business…
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R&D-driven technology has fueled faigle’s rise to become the world’s leading escalator-roller supplier. Headquartered in Hard, Austria, faigle is a plastics specialist that has developed hydrolysis-resistant, precision, durable rollers used in more than half of the escalators in the world. With 350 employees worldwide, faigle produces a broad range of components for not only escalators,…
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How the world’s fastest elevator was developed by Tetsuya Nakayama, Hideka Matsuoka, Yoshiki Higashida, Jun Ohtsuki, Keizo Nakamura and Kazuhisa Mori This paper was presented at Madrid 2016, the International Congress on Vertical Transportation Technologies, and first published in IAEE book Elevator Technology 21, edited by A. Lustig. It is a reprint with permission from…
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A urgent call for strategic planning and innovation in the European elevator industry The Seventh European Lift Congress Heilbronn’s motto was “Lifts for the Future.” The event took place on October 11-12, 2016, at the Experimenta Science Center and Insel-Hotel in Heilbronn, Germany, with about 80 participants. Nearly 50% of them came from 18 different countries.…
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NAESA members gather for valuable sessions and networking opportunities “Over the years, I think I’ve expressed my opinion of the industry, and I think it’s the greatest industry in the world. I think the people are the smartest. I think everybody that is involved in the elevator industry is multifaceted, because. . . the elevator…
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Working with partners around the globe, DOPPLER designed a lift that provides safety and comfort in one of the world’s harshest environments. submitted by Katerina Manolopoulou, DOPPLER S.A. Maersk Drilling is a global oil and gas production company that provides drilling services to oil companies around the world. The head offices are in Copenhagen, Denmark,…
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