December 2025 Issue

Last Glance

An Elevator to Santa

By Kathleen Farrell | December 1, 2025

If you forgot to send a letter to St. Nick, there’s a way you can get your last-minute Christmas wishes heard — Santa’s Elevator Express™ at the Natick Mall in greater Boston, Massachusetts. 

Product Spotlight

Spotlight on interlift

By Elevator World | December 1, 2025

Complete lift systems and precision metal parts among solutions showcased.

Events

Looking and Moving Forward

By Lindsay Fletcher | December 1, 2025

Record-setting attendance for Wisconsin Symposium leads to plan for bigger event next year.

Project Spotlight

Martin Place Metro North Tower

By Elevator World | December 1, 2025

Schindler lifts enhance functionality and integrate with architecture.

Continuing Education

Brake Installation, Maintenance and Troubleshooting

By Kevin Cunningham and Kyle Toan | December 1, 2025

Using the HydraSafe Brake Easy and HydraSafe Brake Plus Manual as an example

Maintenance

Jaxson Steel

By Elevator World | December 1, 2025

Young, family-driven company seeks to raise standard for excellence and inclusivity in elevator manufacturing.

History

Villa Ortiz Basualdo

By Carmen Maldacena | December 1, 2025

The first elevator in Mar Del Plata, Argentina

Maintenance

Private Equity Consolidation of the North American Elevator Service Industry Since 2018

By Dominik Sachsenheimer | December 1, 2025

Since 2018, various Private Equity Firms (“PE Firms”) have started to invest in elevator service companies in North America driven by the many attractive attributes of the elevator industry:

Maintenance

Targeted Elevator Maintenance Leveraging loT

By Rob Wurth | December 1, 2025

Achieving the trifecta of labor efficiency, profitability and customer satisfaction

Events

The 2025 Ellies Awards Winners

By Kaija Wilkinson | December 1, 2025

ELEVATOR WORLD presents the winning companies of the seventh annual competition for excellence in the North American elevator industry.

Escalators

Culture of Innovation

By Richie Deutsch | December 1, 2025

In this Readers’ Platform, your author explains how investment in R&D and people bolster KONE’s escalator portfolio.

Escalators

Escalator Tariffs (1929)

By Dr. Lee Gray | December 1, 2025

Otis Elevator Co. and Senate debate inclusion in the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act.

Escalators

Master Artisans of Escalator Handrails

By Elevator World | December 1, 2025

The unsung craft of splicing is highlighted in this Readers’ Platform.

Escalators

KÖBO USA

By Elevator World | December 1, 2025

“The Chain People” celebrate over a decade of engineering excellence in North America.

Escalators

Advancing Safety for Escalators and Moving Walks

By Eric Powell | December 1, 2025

NEII breaks down what’s new and what’s next.

Escalators

Escalator Cleaning Without Excessive Collateral Moisture

By Willem de Roeper | December 1, 2025

Protecting equipment and uptime

Escalators

Escalator Handrails

By Wayne Crosby | December 1, 2025

Principles and practices to protect passengers and improve performance

Escalators

Connecting Singapore

By Elevator World | December 1, 2025

Otis providing 336 escalators and moving walks, along with 136 elevators, for country’s longest underground MRT line.

Events

Everything Everywhere All at Once

By Kaija Wilkinson | December 1, 2025

NAEC 2025 Convention and Exposition in Houston packed with networking, education, fun, camaraderie and giving back.

Editor's Overview

No Data — No Problem

By Ricia Sturgeon-Hendrick | December 1, 2025

Project Spotlight

İzmir Üçyol Subway Station

By Löher | September 9, 2025

Precise measurement key to success for escalator modernization project in Türkiye.