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Two ADA-Compliant Elevators Welcomed at NYC Station
NYC subway riders welcomed two new Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)-compliant elevators at the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s (MTA) Livonia Avenue station in Brownsville, Brooklyn, earlier this month, WWLP is among...
India’s NCR Installs VVVF Drives on Lifts and Escalators
India’s North Central Railway (NCR) is installing variable voltage-variable frequency (VVVF) drives on elevators and escalators at stations throughout the system to reduce power consumption, Hindustan Times reports. VVVF drives...
Industry Veteran Milefchik Named COO at Two Companies
Industry veteran Rick Milefchik has been named chief operating officer (COO) for both Access Elevator & Electric Supply in Emeryville, California, and Quality Elevator Products, Inc., in Niles, Illinois, Milefchik...
TKE Canada Raises More Than CAD500,000 for CF Nonprofit
TK Elevator (TKE) Canada raised more than CAD500,000 (US$397,360) over five years for the nonprofit Cystic Fibrosis (CF) Canada, dedicated to finding a cure for CF. Fundraising efforts were led...
2N Releases White Paper on Emergency Lift Communications
2N, an IP intercom systems specialist headquartered in Prague, Czech Republic, has released a white paper: "Emergency Lift Communications: A Guide for Lift Manufacturers, Service & Maintenance Providers." The document...
ECS Welcomes Alcott as Senior Business Consultant
ECS Corporation, headquartered in Broadview, Illinois, welcomed Michael Alcott as senior business consultant to ECS Chairman and CEO Ray Allen and Vice President Julie Allen in May. Alcott has nearly...
ATIS Adds Senior Elevator Consultant, Elevator Management Advisor
St. Louis-headquartered ATIS Elevator recently announced it hired Cory Hunter as a senior elevator consultant based in Charlotte, North Carolina, and Natalie Nordstrom as an elevator management advisor working remotely....
Six Residential Towers Nestled in Greenery Planned in Ecuador
In its first project in South America, architect MVRDV has conceived a plan that consists of six residential towers up to 470 ft tall atop a mixed-use plinth on the...
NEII Provides Code Development Updates, Recent Adoptions
National Elevator Industry, Inc. (NEII) provided code development updates and announced recent code adoptions in West Virginia and North Carolina in its latest NEII Insider newsletter. Group B Committee action...
AEG Names Dlugolecki Chief Transformation Officer
Chris Dlugolecki has moved into the newly created role of chief transformation officer at American Elevator Group (AEG), having previously served as AEG's vice president of service operations, AEG announced...
