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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...

CLASS PROJECT TO TRANSFORM OHIO RESIDENTIAL BUILDING’S ELEVATORS

Class Project To Transform Ohio Residential Building’s Elevators

Ciel Tower; image © NORR Group

CTBUH Best Tall Building MEA 2025 Is Dubai’s Ciel Tower

image via Facilities Management Journal

Stannah Welcomes New Generation of Apprentices

Centris Towers; image courtesy of Studio Vertebra Architects

Otis Uzbekistan Distributor Secures 35-Unit Contract

LATEST KARACHI ELEVATOR ACCIDENT POINTS TO LARGER ISSUE

Latest Karachi Elevator Accident Points to Larger Issue