Doors

Training Tool Helps Responders Unlock Elevator Doors

A new training tool is helping firefighters and other emergency responders in Washington, D.C., quickly unlock elevator doors to rescue entrapped passengers, DC News Now reports. Recently ordered by District...

Peelle Promotes Gill to Freight Door Operations Manager

The Peelle Co., headquartered in Brampton, Ontario, recently promoted Harmon Gill from freight door production manager to operations manager. With a degree in mechanical engineering from Sheridan College in Oakville,...

Design Diversity

Not all freight storage and movement systems are identical, so it makes sense to match elevator doors with correct usage. Freight elevator door designs, such as those designed and produced...

Fire Resistant Elevator Doors

Abstract Elevator systems in use today are designed and produced to meet various requirements for their intended use. Fire-resistant lift landing doors has become mandatory after shifting from 95/16/EC to...

Landing Door Locking Devices

Introduction Article 5.3.9.3.4 of EN 81-20 says, “In the case of landing doors driven by the car door, if the landing door becomes open for whatever reason when the car...

The M-C-K Automatic Safety

This History article investigates an interlock for use on operator-controlled doors designed to prevent the car from moving if the doors were open and to prevent them from being opened...

Price Versus Cost of Stainless-Steel Elevator Sills

Warrenville, Illinois-based company details advantages of a tougher material in this Product Spotlight. submitted by Plymouth Engineered Shapes When an elevator is out of service, the minimum cost to replace...

Monitoring From the Outside in

Exploring predictive remote monitoring on doors and related sensors by Dan Bryant and Marty Blackmon Doors and Monitoring Equipment Explained Elevator doors and the equipment for automated control come in...

Open Wide

Freight elevator modernization included replacement of huge doors, the likes of which most mechanics will never encounter. Elevator modernizations almost always pose unique challenges. Current products are not always a...

All Sills, All the Time

New Jersey-based Archi-Tread finds success with a niche product. by Kaija Wilkinson A sill is a small elevator component — typically no more than a few inches wide and approximately...

TEI AWARDED CONTRACT FOR ELEVATORS AT BROOKLYN AMBULATORY HUB

TEI Awarded Contract for Elevators at Brooklyn Ambulatory Hub

Sara Marta, a refugee from Luanda, Angola, was hired in 2023 as an electromechanical assembler; image courtesy of Otis.

Otis Brazil Joins UN-Affiliated Companies With Refugees Forum

MEI-Total Elevator Solutions’ Mankato, Minnesota, manufacturing facility; image courtesy of MEI-Total Elevator Solutions

MEI-Total Elevator Solutions Investigating Fire at Minnesota HQ

Aull

Wittur Names Aull New CEO

(l-r) Legends Tower and the Boardwalk at Bricktown, designed by AO; image via the Robb Report

Developer of 1,907-Ft-Tall Oklahoma City Tower Says He’s Secured Financing