Bass Now CEO Patrick Bass, formerly head of R&D for ThyssenKrupp Elevator in Essen, Germany, is now CEO of ThyssenKrupp North America, Inc., headquartered in Chicago. Bass fills a position formerly held by Torsten Gessner. ThyssenKrupp’s largest and most important foreign market, ThyssenKrupp North America had turnover of US$10.3 billion in fiscal 2012-2013 and has…
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Twenty-six years ago, Marty McFly went to 2015 – the future – on a “hoverboard” in the movie Back to the Future II.[1] There, he stirred up a great deal of trouble that only Christopher Lloyd could get him out of. Now, an elevator system designed for the future of high-rise building is taking a…
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How these phenomena affect the elevator industry and steps that can be taken to mitigate their effects by Dr. Albert So and Dr. W.L. Chan Your authors were first inspired to look into the issue of voltage sags in 2004 after a serious sag due to a heavy thunderstorm in Hong Kong caused more than…
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This Readers Platform traces the history of the modern residential elevator and looks to its future. Elevators, once found primarily in commercial and institutional environments, in apartment buildings and the occasional private mansion, today are on the way to becoming mainstream in the individual residential space. No longer is it startling to see an elevator…
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In this Readers Platform, your author talks about home-elevator safety and how his company’s products supply solutions to the problem. With news of small children being severely injured or even killed in some types of home elevators, home elevator safety is a hot topic these days. Some incidents are due to poor maintenance, bypassed safeties…
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Elevator collective Symmetry Elevating Solutions provides built-to-order home and LU/LA elevators. Owned by a group of experienced residential elevator companies throughout the U.S., Symmetry Elevating Solutions provides custom home elevators and limited-use/limited-application (LU/LA) units with features such as user-friendly car-operating panels (COPs), quiet drive systems and furniture-quality cabs. Symmetry’s residential units offer: Multiple drive systems,…
Read More In this Readers Platform, Elevator Boutique’s Les Katz discusses the restrictions of the U.S. code for private-residence elevators. Standards follow innovation but often to its detriment. Once applied, standards tend to inhibit creativity and new ideas, and are often anti-competitive. Henry Ford didn’t have a driver’s license when he developed the Model T; the Wright…
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In this Readers Platform, your author examines vertical transportation’s ever-increasing role in a more urban, environmentally conscious future. We live in a world of astounding and ever-increasing change. In the U.S., slogans from both the right and left call for change without specifying content. Change in itself is the desired goal. Does that apply to…
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Italian home lift manufacturer debuts DomusLift Corner in Miami with an array of code-compliant models. A pair of DomusLift® cabs, one with Swarovski® elements and the other with Art Deco mosaic tiles, distinguished the debut of Milan-based IGV Group’s DomusLift Corner at Simple Steps showroom in the historic Ironside district of Miami on December 3.…
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Time, money and manpower can be saved using a new testing method. by Wang Weixiong, Liu Yingjie, Wu Xingjun, Wang Xinhua, Xie Chao, Song Yuechao and Li Gang edited by Peng Jie, EW Correspondent Elevators play an important role in vertical transportation to facilitate the daily life of people. With the number of elevators increasing,…
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