We Will See Better Days…

Dear Elevator World Türkiye readers,

As I was writing this article, I learned with great sorrow that Edip Akbayram, one of the valuable singers of our country, had passed away. May God rest his soul in peace. Unfortunately, agendas full of scandals that another country would encounter over 5-10 years can occur within only a few months in our country. The worst part is that people get used to them. As I see the situation our country has fallen into, the lyrics of late Edip Akbayram inevitably come to my mind: “We will see better days, children…”

We present you this new issue, filled with news from all corners of the world again. The Elevator Industry Report 2022, which is generally published annually by Directorate General for Industry, was quite delayed this time, with less data shared compared to previous reports. We have extensively covered the details of this report.

We closely followed all events for you, including the ISEE 2024 fair organized by Iseeventus in Mumbai-India at the end of last year, e2 China forum organized by Messe Frankfurt, and Iran International Seminar on Elevators and Escalators organized by Koosha International Center of Applied Sciences every year in Tehran.

A training event named “New Approaches in Lifts Design and Digitalization” was organized at the Kartal Machine Hangar Conference Hall of MMO in February by the team that developed the ElePort software, one of the most important and value-adding investments in the field of software, although there are hundreds of lift manufacturers in our country.

All Elevator Industrialists and Businessmen Association (TASIAD) held its 31st Ordinary General Assembly at Kartal Titanic Hotel on 29 January 2025. Following the congress, the new management of the association was decided unanimously.

In addition to events and meetings, we present valuable articles in this issue. Muharrem Bilge Çakırer touched upon the subject of “Accessible Lifts for Everyone”, while Semih Çalık and Gülay Pala offered their articles named “Türkiye Lift Market: Growth, Competition and Strategic Roadmap” and “Centers of Union in Lift Industry: Non-governmental Organizations”, respectively, to our dear readers.

We have chosen the subject of our March-April issue as Automatic Doors and Door Operators. We tried to include the industry’s leading names in this area, where we have left behind the whole world with the company population in our country. Süleyman Özcan touched the subjects that manufacturers and installers should take into consideration in his article titled “Essential Safety Requirements for Horizontally Moving Automatic Doors”, while Murat Camgöz summarized the history and development of lift doors in his article titled “Lift Doors”. Our industry’s historian and EW Correspondent Lee Gray explained the history of Dahlstrom’s metallic door development in 1925.  We wish you will also enjoy reading “Machine Learning Solutions for Monitoring Door Vandalism” by KONE Team, and “Lift Doors” by Cem Kapukaya, the “door manufacturer with years of experience”, in his own words.

We wish health, happiness, and profit to all readers…