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KONE Lowers Outlook Due to China Market

Elevator maker KONE has lowered its sales and profit outlook for this year due to lower-than-expected second quarter sales and a weakened new equipment market outlook in China, Yahoo Finance...

2022 Skyscraper Competition Winners Announced

eVolo Magazine recently announced the winners of its global 2022 Skyscraper Competition. The jury selected three winners and 20 honorable mentions out of 427 project nominations. First place was awarded...

KONE to Equip First Phase of Metro 10 in Zhengzhou, China

KONE has won an order to supply units for the first phase the Metro 10 line in Zhengzhou, China, the company announced on June 30. The system, a suite of...

KONE Wins Three Red Dot Awards in 2022 Competition

KONE announced on June 22 it won three prestigious Red Dot Awards in the Product Design 2022 Competition for a series of elevator interiors inspired by Indian culture, a voice-operated...

TKE Supplies Voice/Gesture Controlled Elevators for Chinese Airport

TK Elevator (TKE) is expanding its portfolio of safe and convenient mobility services for passengers and airport visitors in China with more than 100 elevators customized with voice and gesture...

TKE Introduces milift, Hong Kong’s First Modular Elevator

TK Elevator (TKE) has introduced miliftTM, the first commercialized modular elevator system in Hong Kong, in support of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China's...

More Than 230 Otis Units for Shanghai’s New Bund

Otis recently highlighted how it is facilitating mobility in the New Bund Area in Pudong, Shanghai's second CBD, with more than 230 elevators and escalators, including 50 in the New...

Hitachi Elevator Provides 219 VT Units to Four Chinese Hospitals

Guangzhou, China-headquartered Hitachi Elevator provided 219 pieces of vertical-transportation (VT) equipment to four hospitals in Beijing, Hefei and Suzhou, China, Equal Ocean reports. At the Chengnan Campus of Peking University...

Winning Design for China Octagonal Supertall Announced

Büro Ole Scheeren has won an international design competition to build the 350-m Nanjing Jiangbei New Financial Center Tower in China, Arch Daily reports. The octagonal-silhouette skyscraper merges local tradition...

TKE Launches MAX in China

TK Elevator (TKE) has introduced its cloud-based IoT predictive maintenance solution MAX in China, TKE announced on April 20. Launched in North America and select European markets in 2015, MAX...

SEA-LEVEL RISE THREATENS NEW YORK HOUSING AND TALL BUILDINGS

Sea-Level Rise Threatens NYC Housing and Tall Buildings

HOUSTON SENIOR APARTMENT COMPLEX SUFFERING ELEVATOR BREAKDOWNS

Houston Senior Apartment Complex Suffering Elevator Breakdowns

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Otis Appoints Armas as President U.S. and Canada

Example of Mogilevliftmash elevator interior; image courtesy of Mogilevliftmash

Elevator Assembly Plant Officially Opens in Belarus