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TKE Develops Initiative To Improve Escalator Safety
TK Elevator (TKE), along with vertical-transportation branding company MotionIcon UK, has developed special safety signage to make escalators safer. The initiative seeks to increase awareness of potential hazards through pictograms...
U.K.-Based Cooper Awarded MBE for Services to Lift and Escalator Engineering
David Cooper, CEO of London-based vertical-transportation consultancy LECS UK, received the Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE) recognition in the King’s 2023 birthday honors list,...
14 Injured in Mumbai Elevator Fall
At least 14 people were injured after an elevator collapsed from the fourth floor to the ground floor in the Trade World Tower C in Mumbai, India, on the morning...
142nd ASME President Begins Term; New Member Announced
American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) announced at its annual June 6 meeting in St. Louis that its 142nd president, Thomas Kurfess, has begun his term. The organization also welcomed...
US$11.5-Million Elevator Project at San Francisco’s Castro Muni Station Set To Begin
Construction on a long-awaited, four-stop elevator at the Castro San Francisco Municipal Railway (Muni) station in the city's LGBTQ District is set to start in early July, The Bay Area...
GT Providing Five MRL Elevators to Kelowna Development
Global Tardif (GT), headquartered in St-Augustin-de-Desmaures, Quebec, Canada, tells ELEVATOR WORLD it has been tapped by Elpro Elevators to provide four duplex machine-room-less (MRL) elevators making 13 and 17 stops and a...
TKE Global CEO Uday Yadav Visits Cleveland Jobsite
TK Elevator (TKE) global CEO Uday Yadav recently visited the Cleveland Clinic Neurological Institute jobsite in Cleveland, Ohio, speaking with representatives of general contractor Turner Construction and members of the...
Early Bird Registration Deadline for Lift & Escalator Symposium Approaches
The 14th Symposium on Lift and Escalator Technologies will bring together vertical-transportation experts on September 20-21 at the Hilton Hotel in Northampton, U.K. An early registration discount is available until...
International CAN Conference Issues Call for Papers
The program committee of the 18th International CAN Conference, chaired by Holger Zeltwanger, CAN in Automation (CiA) managing director, has issued a call for papers. Organized by the nonprofit CiA,...
Wittur Hosts WiConnect Events in Slovakia and Mexico
Wittur Group, the Germany-headquartered supplier of components for lifts, elevators, doors, engines and lift cars, held WiConnect events at Wittur plants in Krupina, Slovakia, and Monclova, Mexico, on June 6...
