Last Glance
“You Can’t Make This Up.”
Gerry Matawa, a KONE escalator installation expert whose specialty is the vast, complex and deep escalator system for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s (MTA) subway network in New York City (NYC),...
Short but Quick
Catania, Italy, is home to what thyssenkrupp says are probably “the world’s shortest moving walks that give customers an unprecedented shopping experience.” The company installed the shortest iWalks it’s created...
Third-Generation Elevator Man Retires After 53 Years
Don Ruempler, Pittsburgh district manager for Eastern Elevator Sales and Service Co. (EESSC) in Windber, Pennsylvania, has retired after 53 years in the industry. Ruempler’s career began in 1964 with...
Hard Selling
Part of the approximately US$25,000 the Elevator Escalator Safety Foundation raised at the 68th Annual Convention & 2017 Exposition of the National Association of Elevator Contractors (p. 54) came from...
That’s My Poppy!
Many in the elevator industry are passionate about what they do and continue doing it long past typical retirement age. A perfect example is Larry L. “Poppy” Pummell. His son,...
Greetings From Old Town Lijiang
ELEVATOR WORLD China Correspondent Peng Jie loves traveling around his country seeing its stunning natural beauty and amazing historical sites. Recently, he took a long drive to the famous Old...
A Different Kind of Merger
ELEVATOR WORLD Correspondent and Managing Director of U.K.-based consultancy LECS (UK) Ltd. David Cooper married Louisa Wilson on May 6 at the Hotel du Vin in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, U.K....
Metro as Museum
When thyssenkrupp announced it had won a major maintenance contract from Azienda Napoletana Mobilita (ANM) in Naples, Italy (ELEVATOR WORLD, April 2017), it shared photographs of some of the units...
Long Service Life, Still Serviceable
Colley Elevator Co. of Bensenville, Illinois, featured this interesting installation, at 321 South Jefferson Street in Chicago, on its Twitter account. Colley’s Craig Zomchek explained the company encountered it when...
From Tuscany to Miami
Massimo Bezzi, John Antona and Gianluca Bertazzoni were able to meet in Antona’s hometown of Miami when Bezzi and Betazzoni (both from Italy) attended the Miami International Boat Show on...
