International News
KONE Announces Ambitious New 2025-2030 Strategy, “Rise”
On September 19, KONE announced its ambitious new 2025-2030 strategy, "Rise," with which it aims to lead in employee and customer experience, sustainability, innovation, growth and profitability. Effective January 1,...
Demelza Chosen as 2024 LEEA Charity
The Lifting Equipment Engineers Association (LEEA) named Demelza as its charity to support in 2024. Demelza delivers top-notch care to extraordinary children and young people battling serious or life-limiting illnesses...
UK Lift & Escalator Expands With New Birmingham Location
UK Lift & Escalator Co. Ltd. recently opened a third location in the Birmingham, U.K., region, adding to existing offices in the northeast and northwest of England. Operating since 2012,...
SkyTrain Escalator Project Moves to Second Phase
TransLink is reopening the Millennium Line escalators at Commercial–Broadway SkyTrain Station in Vancouver, Canada, on September 27. On the same day, the second phase of the escalator replacement project will...
Celsius Systems Unveils Air-Operated Vacuum Elevators
Celsius Systems, a pioneer in the elevator industry since 2005, has announced the introduction of its latest innovative technology — Air-Operated Vacuum Elevators. As the sole distributor of the Pneumatic...
TKE Handling Major Cologne Subway Escalator Modernization
TK Elevator (TKE) announced on September 17 it has been awarded a major escalator modernization contract to modernize numerous escalators serving subway stations in Cologne, Germany. The project includes 23...
PPP-Maintained FoBs in Indian City Lack Working Elevators
Bharat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP), the administrative body responsible for civic amenities in greater Bengaluru, India, has found that many foot overbridges (FOBs) maintained under the public-private partners (PPP) model...
Tashkent Metro Explains High Price of New Escalators
Tashkent Metro in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, has provided answers as to why eight new escalators for three metro stations cost UZS10 billion (US$783,961), or UZS1.3 billion (US$101,914) per escalator, UZ Daily...
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...
