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Start Elevator’s O’Shea Discusses 2025 Business Drivers, Challenges

Jack O'Shea, owner and president of Bronx, NY-based Start Elevator, recently discussed with ELEVATOR WORLD what's driving business and creating challenges for his company in 2025. With a roughly equal...

NAESA Accepting Nominations for Eastern Region Chair

NAESA International invites members in good standing to apply to be nominated as chair of the Eastern Region, a position currently held by Christopher M. Dodds of ATIS. The deadline...

CTBUH 2025 Awards Program Carbon Pilot Launched

As part of its commitment to reducing carbon in the built environment, the Council on Tall Buidlings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) has launched the CTBUH 2025 Awards Program Carbon Pilot,...

Deadly Apartment Fire Leaves Elevators Waterlogged

Residents of 35 Brock Street, one of the Marina Towers, in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, were without operational elevators for at least 24 h due to a fatal fire that occurred...

Registration New Open for 51st CECA Convention

Registration is now open for Canadian Elevator Contractors Association’s (CECA) 51st Convention, hosted by Alcor Elevator, to be held on June 9-12 in Niagara Falls. The convention will be held at...

KONE to Provide Elevators for High-Rise Mumbai Complex

KONE announced on January 28 it received an order to provide 21 passenger elevators for Aga Hall Estate in Mumbai, India, which consists of 45- and 56-story towers containing 349...

Cobianchi Liftteile Names Rohr as New CEO

Stephan Rohr, former chief technology officer of ELGO Batscale AG, has been named CEO of Cobianchi Liftteile AG, a Switzerland-based company engineering and manufacturing progressive safety devices for all kind...

Fermator Christmas Celebrations Held Throughout Europe

In addition to Brazil, Spain-based automatic lift door manufacturer Fermator highlighted Christmas celebrations held throughout Europe to bid farewell to 2024 as it “looks forward to an even brighter 2025.”...

Otis to Install 303 Elevators for Sobha Realty in Dubai

Otis announced on January 23 it has been selected by Sobha Realty to supply and install 303 elevators in its five major projects in Dubai. Later this year, Otis will...

KONE Australia Debuts High-Rise MiniSpace DX in Melbourne Building

KONE Australia has introduced the High-Rise MiniSpace DX with the cutting-edge solution debuting in BLVD, the third tower of OSK Property’s Melbourne Square precinct, currently under construction by Multiplex, Inside Construction reports....

EIT Oxford Interdisciplinary Research and Development campus; image courtesy of Foster + Partners

Otis to Install 18 VT Units at New EIT Oxford Campus

The Jackson-Medgar Wiley Evers International Airport in Jackson, Mississippi; image courtesy of Visit Jackson

Nine New VT Units for Mississippi Capital Airport

OTIS LOWERS EARNINGS EXPECATIONS ON CONTINUED WEAK DEMAND IN CHINA

Otis Lowers Earnings Expectations on Continued Weak Demand in China

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In Memoriam: James Mikel “Jim” Brown

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Education Submissions for CECA Convention Due Monday