North America

EW Announces 2025 Project of the Year Winners

ELEVATOR WORLD proudly announces the 2025 Project of the Year winners. Expert teams from Asia, Australia, Europe, the Middle East, North America and the U.K. emerged victorious by successfully completing...

Alberto Sassi Partners With U.S.-Based Master Elevator Parts

Alberto Sassi SpA, headquartered in Italy, recently announced a strategic partnership with Long Island City (LIC), NY-based Master Elevator Parts. Unveiled during the United Convention in Atlantic City, New Jersey,...

Fortune India Talks to Otis CEO About Regional Market Trends

Fortune India published a piece on October 7 in which the author interviewed Otis Chair, President and CEO Judy Marks about market trends and company strategy in areas including North...

ATTA Elevators Acquires Ohio-Based Maximum Elevator

ATTA Elevators, a leading independent elevator and escalator service provider headquartered in Ontario, Canada, on October 1 announced its expansion into the Cleveland, Ohio, market with the acquisition of Maximum...

2024 Ellies Award Winners and Runners-Up Announced

Congratulations to the 2024 Ellies Award winners and runners-up. Each was announced live on-stage on September 25 at NAEC's 2024 United Convention. Winners were presented their custom Ellies trophies, and...

U.K.-Based Access BDD to Launch New Platform Lift in NA

Following the successful launch of its range of stairlifts in North America in 2021, U.K.-based Access BDD plans to showcase its Supra Linea Platform Lift to the North American market...

Toronto Skyscraper Proposal Nearly Doubles in Height

Altree Developments’ proposed 23-story tower at 1705 Weston Road in Toronto has grown since 2020 to 43 stories with nearly double the number of residential units, in line with Ontario’s...

Invertek to Showcase ASME A17.1-Compliant VFD at TES

Invertek Drives, Ltd., the U.K.-based electric motor control technology specialist, plans to showcase the Optidrive Elevator Core variable frequency drive (VFD) at The Elevator Show in Dubai on September 16-18....

ATIS Makes Inc. 5000 Fastest-Growing Private Companies List

St. Louis-headquartered ATIS, providing vertical-transportation (VT) consulting, management and inspection services across North America, has made the 2024 Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing privately held companies in America. Companies on...

Mullen Appointed Export Sales Manager at Peelle

Brampton, Ontario-headquartered The Peelle Co. announced that Steve Mullen has been appointed export sales manager. Mullen has more than 30 years' experience with Peelle, starting there as a junior drafter...

222 Broadway; photo © John W. Cahill for the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat

TEI Group Repositions Elevators for Major NYC Conversion

ARCHI-TREAD RELOCATING FROM N.J. TO FLORIDA

Archi-Tread Relocating From N.J. to Florida

Entrance to the Victoria Building, which was built in 1945; photo by SnowyBadger for Wikipedia

Halifax Hospital to Get Elevator Replacement, Upgrades

Stationslift Storingen, a website for reporting broken elevators, was created in response to the structural problem by wheelchair user Kasrt Lovers; image courtesy of X.

Out-of-Order Lifts at Dutch Train Stations Leave Wheelchair Users Stranded

FUJITEC EXPLAINS NEW STRATEGY CENTERED AROUND DIGITAL TWIN CONCEPT

Fujitec Explains New Strategy Centered Around Digital Twin Concept