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CECA Scholarship Renamed to Honor Past Member Guderian
The Canadian Elevator Contractors Association (CECA) Board of Directors (BoD) decided at its recent meeting to rename one of the CECA Elevating Devices scholarships in honor of past member the...
CEDES Names Bayrakli E&E Account Manager EMEA
Switzerland-headquartered CEDES recently welcomed Yasin Bayrakli to its sales team as elevator and escalator (E&E) key account manager for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Bayraki joins CEDES from...
Russian Elevator Manufacturer To Produce Premium Units
Russian elevator manufacturer Meteor (part of S8 Capital Holding and formerly Otis) will produce premium Aurus elevators developed by the designers of Aurus cars — the Central Scientific Research Automobile...
API Group Completes Acquisition of Elevated Facility Services Group
Minnesota-headquartered APi Group Corp. on June 5 announced the completion of its previously announced acquisition of Tampa, Florida-headquartered Elevated Facility Services Group for approximately US$570 million from a fund managed...
Schindler’s Martin Joins ASME A17.1 Standards Committee
Norman Martin, a vertical-transportation industry professional with nearly 40 years' experience, has joined the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) A17.1 Elevator and Escalator Main Committee as a voting member....
KONE Part of Modernization of Iconic Thirty High in London
KONE announced on June 6 it has been selected to provide a suite of vertical-transportation (VT) solutions for the modernization of the 1960s, 101-m-tall Thirty High skyscraper (formerly Portland House)...
Ground Broken on 190-M-Tall Mixed-Use Tower in Mexico
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), in collaboration with Mexico City-based Estudio AMA and interior designer Esrawe Studio, has revealed a new 190-m-tall mixed-use tower in Guadalajara, Mexico, which broke ground...
Lawsuit Casts Shadow Over Billionaires’ Row Supertall
A lawsuit filed by owners of condominiums in the 96-story, 1,296-ft-tall 432 Park Avenue on Billionaires' Row in Manhattan is casting a shadow over the future of one of the...
Rebuilt Schindler Escalators Now Serve BART Market Street Stations
On May 31 and 30, Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) introduced a rebuilt escalator and a new canopy on Market Street at the Embarcadero and Montgomery stations, respectively, Hoodline was...
K.A. Schmersal Receives Great Place To Work Certification
Taking part in the program for the first time, Wuppertal, Germany-headquartered K.A. Schmersal GmbH & Co. KG has been awarded the Great Place to Work® (GPTW) certification, the Schmersal Group...
