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Product Of The Year 2025 Winners
EW’s fifth annual Product of the Year Award recognizes the outstanding development achievements of manufacturers whose products are considered particularly noteworthy or innovative. The product(s) should represent any of the following qualities:
- A significant advancement in a technology or its application
- An exceptionally innovative design
- A substantial achievement in price/performance
- Improvements in design performance
- A potential for new product designs/opportunities.
2025 PRODUCT OF THE YEAR WINNER
Hyperion Solutions
TITAN DUAL PLUNGER RETROFIT BRAKE KIT
New and Improved
Innovation is at the core of the elevator industry, and ELEVATOR WORLD is proud to again recognize the achievements of manufacturers whose products — brought to the vertical-transportation market between March 2024-July 1, 2025 — are considered particularly noteworthy or innovative for the fifth annual Product of the Year Award. The products featured represent advances in technology or application, innovative or improved design, price/performance improvements and potential for further development. This special section contains detailed listings of the six products up for consideration this year, and you have the opportunity, along with an impartial panel of experienced industry experts and professionals, to help choose this year’s winner by voting online in October at elevatorworld.com. The winner and two finalists will be announced in November with an email blast and news in ELENET, along with receiving a framable certificate, a digital awards decal to use in marketing and a feature in the 2026 Elevator World SOURCE Directory. The winner will also receive a Product of the Year trophy to keep and display in the office or at industry events.
TITAN DUAL PLUNGER RETROFIT BRAKE KIT HYPERION SOLUTIONS
The Titan Dual Plunger Retrofit Brake Kit is a purpose-built, code-compliant modernization solution for legacy elevator machines. Designed for both geared and gearless traction applications, this kit provides a streamlined and safe method of upgrading aging single plunger braking systems without removing the machine from service.
For geared traction machines that rely on single plunger brakes, Titan’s kit eliminates the single point of failure both mechanically and electrically by building in redundancy. For gearless machines, the kit enables an upgrade to emergency braking functionality for Ascending Car Overspeed (ACO) and Unintended Car Movement (UCM) protection, enhancing passenger safety and compliance.
This solution allows building owners and contractors to keep well-maintained legacy equipment reliably in service without costly field modifications, engineering expenses, or full machine replacements. Instead of extensive downtime, Titan delivers a fully pre-engineered, drop-in system that is quick to install and significantly improves safety and reliability.
The Titan Dual Plunger Retrofit Brake Kit meets ASME A17.1/CSA B44 requirements and complies with A17.3 code changes in applicable jurisdictions such as New York City. This certification ensures that the modernization not only enhances performance but also meets the highest safety standards in the industry.
Hyperion Solutions | Titan
Email: [email protected]
Phone: (718) 361-7848
Website: www.hyperion-solutions.com
2025 PRODUCT OF THE YEAR FINALIST
A100 PIT FLOOD PROTECTION SYSTEM
ARGUS ELEVATOR
The Argus A100 Pit Flood Protection System is the simplest way to protect any elevator, new or old, from flooding.
More than just an alarm, the system takes action. It combines the A100-PFD Pit Flood Protector with the A100-PFS Pit Float Switch to sense rising water and respond automatically. When water is detected, the system automatically triggers audible and visual alarms and moves the elevator to a designated safe floor, opens the doors for passenger exit, and then disables the elevator until it is reset. This helps prevent costly equipment damage, safeguards passengers, and reduces service interruptions.
The A100-PFS is a rugged float switch housed in a waterproof enclosure with sealed fittings and liquid-tight conduit. Mounted 6 to 12 inches above the pit floor, it signals the A100-PFD as soon as water triggers the float.
Compact and easy to install, the A100- PFD protection system works with all elevator controllers, whether based on relay logic or serial communications. Its bright touchscreen interface uses icon-based indicators for each input and output to simplify setup and diagnostics.
Together, the A100-PFD and A100-PFS provide a reliable, no-maintenance solution for protecting elevators from flooding, while helping building owners meet safety codes, keep insurance eligibility, protect passengers, and reduce costly downtime.
To learn more about the Argus A100 Pit Flood Protection System, call
877-837-0893 or
email [email protected]
BALANCE
VERTIMA GmbH
Hydraulic rope equalizer which ensures: eliminates the need for manual measurement of rope tensions.
- This means that regular readjustment of the ropes and documentation of rope tensions are no longer necessary.
- Independed of the rope diameter and rope quantity, all ropes will be
- balanced to the same level. That guarantees no more longer unsteady
- tensioned ropes and no more longer unsteady outweared traction sheaves.
- No deflection by steel springs or rubber buffers. As consequence direct load
- transmission and as further consequence a higher accuracy at the stops of the lift.
- If requested with integrated load measuring system.
- If requested easy detection of slack rope.
VERTIMA GmbH
Daimlerstr. 22
72649 Wolfschlugen Germany
Tel.: +49 7022 5029390
e-mail: [email protected]
web: www.vertima.de
Contact person: Markus Stucke
2024 PRODUCT OF THE YEAR WINNER
SEES Inc. / Southern Elevator & Electric Supply
2023 PRODUCT OF THE YEAR WINNER
F1 Cab Shell by MAD Elevator Inc.
2022 PRODUCT OF THE YEAR WINNER
Elevator interiors - INPRO®
2021 PRODUCT OF THE YEAR WINNER
MosaicONE Video & Messaging System by MAD Elevator
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