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Otis India Introduces Online Order Booking for Gen3 Nova Range

Otis India, a subsidiary of Otis Worldwide Corp., has introduced online order booking for the Gen3TM Nova range of elevators. Building owners and facility managers in India can now purchase...

EW Announces 2024 Project of the Year Winners

ELEVATOR WORLD proudly announces the 2024 Project of the Year winners. Expert teams in Canada, the U.S., the U.K., Singapore and the Middle East emerged victorious by successfully completing challenging,...

India Railway Station Elevator/Escalator Construction Ongoing

Nashik Road railway station in India will get an elevator and escalator on platforms 2 and 3 in the near future, Construction World reports. The main foot-overbridge, constructed at the...

Majority of Singapore Escalator Incidents Due to User Behavior

The vast majority of safety incidents that occurred on escalators in Singapore in the first 10 months of 2023 happened because people were not using them properly, the Building and...

Otis Elevator Korea Finishes Modernization Project

Otis Elevator Korea recently finished the modernization of an elevator at the Namsan Seoul Tower, a popular tourist destination in Seoul, South Korea. Otis Korea was awarded the contract to...

Hyundai Elevator Co. Chair To Step Down

Hyundai Group Chairwoman Hyun Jeong-eun will step down in December as chair of the board of directors at the group's elevator unit to help improve its governance structure, the company...

KONE Providing 51 Elevators and More to New Development in Hangzhou

KONE has been tapped to provide a range of People Flow® solutions, including 51 MiniSpaceTM and 12 MonoSpace® elevators, to Zhejiang University Alumni Headquarters Economic Park in Hangzhou, East China,...

USIBC Launches U.S.-India “Innovation Handshake” Initiative

Near the close of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Leaders Summit in San Francisco on November 11-17, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's India Business Council (USIBC) hosted an inaugural roundtable discussion...

Schmidt Elevator Expands Presence, To Sign Agreement

Chongqing, China’s Schmidt Elevator Co., Ltd. has been actively expanding its domestic and international market presence this year, according to Yang Guang, vice president of Schmidt Elevator (Chongqing), iChongqing reports....

Elevators Closed in Pakistan Government Building

Elevators at the Shaheed-e-Millat Secretariat, which houses several government offices in Islamabad, have been closed by the Pakistan Public Works Department (PWD), The News reports. The PWD says the lifts...

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

Herrmann

In Memoriam: Tim Herrmann

Armas

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