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Hyundai to Use AI And Voice Recognition In Elevators
Hyundai Elevator Co. and KT Corp. signed a memorandum of understanding and announced that they will integrate elevators with AI, voice and face recognition and self-driving robots, The Korea Bizwire reports. Hyundai...
Otis Selected to Deliver Elevators for Tokyo Project
Nippon Otis Elevator Co., a Japanese subsidiary of Otis Elevator Co., has been selected to install 15 elevators for the Toranomon-Azabudai Project, a redevelopment project in Tokyo, the company reported...
Unitec Returns To Roots, Moves Back To Long Island City
Elevator service provider Unitec is moving from Ozone Park to a new headquarters in CityView Plaza in Long Island City, the company announced in a press release. The company was...
Visitor Center Opens With TKE Environmentally Friendly Elevators
TK Elevator (TKE) announced that it provided two environmentally friendly elevators for the Pikes Peak Summit Visitor Center on Pikes Peak – America's Mountain in Colorado. The Summit Visitor Center opened on...
Hyderabad Hit With Delays On Fob Construction
Problems, including lack of response for tender invitations and untimely delays for needed work, have led to postponement of a number of foot-overbridge (FOB) projects in Hyderabad, India, The Hindu reports. The...
Construction Begins On Tokyo Senior Residence High-Rise
Mitsui Fudosan Residential started construction on May 31 on a high-rise senior residence building on the site of the former Novartis Headquarters in Nishiazabu, Tokyo, Japan Property Central reports. The high-rise will...
Otis Launches Signature Service In U.A.E., Kuwait And Qatar
Otis has launched its Signature Service® for Gulf-region countries U.A.E., Kuwait and Qatar, the company announced in June. Noting that several customers have signed on for the service, Otis describes it...
3Phase Merges With West Virginia Elevator
Leading independent elevator and escalator service provider 3Phase Elevator announced in June that it has merged with West Virginia Elevator. Canton, Massachusetts-based 3Phase made the move after it received an...
Busy market generates work for construction and vertical-transportation industries
KONE Providing Lifts, Escalators for London High Rise KONE has won an order to supply 15 custom-made elevators and escalators for the new “Arbor” office building at Western Yards, phase...
Contracts buoy optimism
Maspero Elevatori Handling VT Portion of UN European HQ Andrea Maspero Maspero Elevatori has been awarded a more-than-EUR2.8-million (US$3.4-million) contract for the vertical-transportation (VT) portion of renovation of the historic...
