Middle East

TKE Celebrates 25 Years of VT Service at Israel Airport

TK Elevator (TKE) is celebrating 25 years of providing elevator service at Ben Gurion Airport in Israel. TKE began servicing vertical-transportation (VT) equipment at the airport in 1997 and today...

TKE Celebrates Spanish National Day in U.A.E.

TK Elevator (TKE) celebrated 2022 Spanish National Day in the U.A.E. as one of the sponsors of an event organized by the emirate’s Spanish Business Council at the Emirates Palace...

Woman in Tel Aviv Seriously Injured in Elevator Shaft Fall

A 77-year-old woman in Tel Aviv, Israel, was hospitalized in serious condition as a result of falling three stories down an elevator shaft of an under-renovation building, The Times of...

AG MELCO Wins 228-Elevator Order for Dubai Megadevelopment

AG MELCO, a division of Mitsubishi Electric Elevators, has won an order to supply 228 elevators to Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum City — District One in Dubai, Jorge Manuel...

KONE Elevators for New Jerusalem Apartment Buildings

The 24 high-ceilinged apartments in ONE DUBNOV, a pair of buildings in Jerusalem that appear to approximately five to six stories tall, will be served by four KONE elevators, according...

Contractor Appointed for Dubai’s Skyz Tower

Danube Properties has announced the appointment of Naresco Contracting LLC as the main contractor for the construction of Dubai’s Skyz Tower, a high-rise residential tower containing affordable homes, Construction Week...

Hyundai Elevator’s Global Design Contest

Hyundai Elevator holds a Global Idea Contest in five countries in order to improve its fastest, most comfortable and safe transportation experience in line with the latest architectural trends and...

Liftinstituut Announces Its 3rd Project of the Year

Submissions for the 3rd Project of the Year contest, which is the only contest in vertical transportation in Türkiye and first organized in 2017 by Solutions by Liftinstituut, are accepted....

Secularism, Democracy or Theocracy?

“Our nation is now responsible for its future, not the past.”Mustafa Kemal Atatürk Following the defeat of the Ottoman Empire and its ally Germany in the 1st World War, Anatolian...

TASIS: Türkiye’s First Trade Union in Elevator Industry

All Elevator Industry Employers Association (TASIS), which is Türkiye’s first trade union in the elevator and escalator industry, has been established on August 8, and got into action. The union,...

FATALITY IN CHINESE SHOPPING MALL AFTER GLASS RAILING GAVE WAY

Fatality in Chinese Shopping Mall After Glass Railing Gave Way

ELEVATOR CONSTRUCTION MAY HAVE STARTED RUBBISH FIRE IN L.A. BUILDING

Elevator Construction May Have Started Rubbish Fire in L.A. Building

Main entrance of the David of Sasun station of the Yerevan Metro; image from Wikimedia Commons

Two Yerevan Metro Stations Getting New Escalators

IBB INVESTIGATES MALFUNCTIONS OF VT IN ISTANBUL

IBB Investigates Malfunctions of VT in Istanbul

Çankaya station of the İzmir Metro; photo by A. Savin for Wikipedia

Overhaul of 278 Pieces of VT Nearly Complete in İzmir