Asia
Hitachi Takes Total Holding of Elevator Company Yungtay
Tokyo-based Hitachi has all of the remaining holdings of Yungtay Engineering Co., Ltd., meaning the Taiwan-led company will engage in the manufacture, sale and service of elevators and escalators in...
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...
Large FoB Set to Open in Indian State of Kerala
After more than a two-year delay, the Indian state Kerala’s longest foot-over-bridge (FoB) at East Fort in Thiruvananthapuram is nearly set to be commissioned, The New Indian Express says. The...
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...
CINEC Campus Offers Training for Elevator Technicians
CINEC Campus has introduced a new course to train elevator technicians for the first time in Sri Lanka, The Island reports. CINEC is conducting the practical training of this course...
Hyundai Introduces Service Robot Elevator in South Korea
Hyundai Movex Co., a logistics system affiliate under Hyundai Group, introduced Roboport, the world’s first elevator dedicated to service robots, at Naver Corp.’s new office building in South Korea, The...
Work Underway for Tokyo Tower Tameike Sanno
Developers have officially begun construction on Tameike Sanno Tower, a 150-m-tall office building planned near the Tameike Sanno Station in Tokyo, Japan Property Central reports. Under the industrial firms Sekisui...
India Cruise Terminal To Be Commissioned by July 2024
Cruise ship fans are looking forward to the opening of the elevator-equipped Mumbai, India, International Cruise Terminal, an iconic ocean trip dock coming up at BPX-Indira Dock, The Free Press...
India Officials To Report on FoBs, Lifts for Elderly, Disabled
The Delhi, India, High Court has directed the Delhi government to file a status report relating to the accessibility of foot overbridges (FoBs) and other public utilities for people with...
Sri Lanka’s Aitken Spence Elevators Wins International Award
Aitken Spence Elevators, a supply, installation and maintenance company in partnership with Otis in Sri Lanka, recently won the international award “Excellence in Business Transformation” during the Business Transformation Leadership...