Elevators
Elevator Shaft Fall Fatal for Man in the Florida Panhandle
A fall down an elevator shaft at an under-construction home on Highway 30a in Walton County on the Florida Panhandle was fatal for a man on July 20, WEAR-TV reports....
NEII Provides Code Development Updates
National Elevator Industry, Inc. (NEII) recently provided updates on the A17.1/CSA B44 Safety Code for Elevators and Escalators. The public review period for changes to the 2022 edition has closed,...
Taiwan Power Outages Lead To Elevator Entrapments
Regional power outages in Taiwan recently snarled traffic as emergency workers responded to calls for rescue, including those trapped in elevators, Taipei Times reports. The Taipei Department of Economic Development said that...
KONE Suspends Parts, Service Deliveries To Russia
Russian military actions against Ukraine have prompted KONE to temporarily block delivery to Russia beginning March 3, the elevator/escalator construction and modernization reports. The company has also, for the time...
TfL Concerned About HS2 Euston Station Design In London
Transport for London (TfL) has raised “several concerns” about HS2 Ltd.’s latest designs for London’s Euston Station, one of the stations serving the new HS2 high-speed railway that will form...
TKE Opens Its Center In India, Its 11th In 25 Years
TK Elevator (TKE) has opened an International Technical Service (ITS) center in Pune, Maharashtra, India, the 11th location globally since launching the centers 25 years ago, the OEM announced on...
Indian Rails Plan to Maintain Elevators, Escalators
Delhi Metro Rail Corp. (DMRC) in New Delhi, India, plans to use the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) model to promote enhanced installation and service operation of elevators and escalators along priority...
KONE Stamp is on Metro Lines from Asia to Europe
KONE will supply and install more than 70 elevators for the Grand Paris Express metro project in Paris, the capital of France, and will deliver 107 escalators to the first...
Thyssenkrupp Elevator Acquisition Completed
Transfer transactions of thyssenkrupp Elevator, which was recently acquired by a consortium of three private equity firms (Advent International, Cinven and RAG-Stiftung), have been completed. The process that started with...
Elevator Ride Quality Adjustment With A VFD
Properly used, software functions can eliminate effects of rollback and increase speed-control response. Many people take ride quality for granted when they use an elevator, but a smooth and responsive...
