International News
Union Club of British Columbia Getting New Elevator
The elevator at the Union Club of British Columbia (BC) in Victoria, BC, Canada, will soon be removed for a new “state-of-the-art” elevator, according to the Times Colonist. In the past...
LEIA Announces President and Vice President
Karis Walker, head of Commercial at TK Elevator (TKE), has been appointed president and Andrew Renwick, managing director (MD) at Caltech Lifts, has been appointed as vice president of the...
Robots Integrate With Otis Elevators at MMUH in U.K.
Otis’ New Equipment team enabled the integration of Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs), or robots, with seven of 28 Otis elevators serving the new Midland Metropolitan University Hospital (MMUH) in Smethwick...
U.K.’s HSE Celebrates 50th Anniversary
Great Britain’s Health and Safety Executive (HSE) celebrated its 50th Anniversary on January 1, half a century after its official launch on the first day of 1975. The HSE was...
KONE VT for Resort and Commercial Hub in Cambodia
KONE announced on January 9 it was awarded a comprehensive vertical-transportation (VT) contract by Chinese foreign-investment firm Peninsula Bay Investment Co., Ltd., to provide a suite of People Flow® solutions to...
Japan Elevator Service Holdings Opens New Regional Head Office
Japan Elevator Service Holdings Co., Ltd. opened a new regional head office, in Kita Shinetsu, in Nagano, Japan, on January 1, 2025, the Business Insider reports. The company aims to enhance its...
AKE Project Manager Transitions from Türkiye to Germany
AKE Aufzuge & Fahrtreppen GmbH Project Manager Çağri Kanar announced on LinkedIn he has "officially swapped kebabs for pretzels" and is assuming the same position for AKE in Germany. "After...
ATTA Elevators Completes Rebuild of Schindler Units in Ottawa
ATTA Elevators, a full-service independent elevator and escalator company based in Ontario, Canada, announced it has completed rebuilding two Schindler inclined moving walks in collaboration with Leading Edge Escalators (LEE)....
Inspectors Face Unique Challengers in War-Torn Israel
Yuval Valiano-Rips of Israel-based elevator inspection and consulting firm Rips Elevators Group says his team of elevator safety inspectors are facing the unique and challenging task of assessing elevators in...
In Memoriam: Stephen Fall
Stephen Fall, managing director, International, of Lerch Bates (LB) with offices in Europe, the U.K., India and Dubai, passed away suddenly on December 23, 2024, of natural causes. Based in...
