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Light rail gets a boost; work wraps up on unique tower.
KONE Delivering 169 Units for Transit Line KONE has won an order to deliver 169 escalators and elevators to the Red Line of Tel Aviv, Israel’s Light Rail Network. The...
Important contracts for OEMs and a look to the future
Hitachi: Big Job, Plans on Horizon Escalators, Elevators for New Metro Line Hitachi Elevator has begun installation of elevators and escalators for its first rail transit project in Kunming. Kunming’s...
Changes, promotions and new ventures around the elevator world
KONE Announces Executive Board Changes Maciej Kranz has been appointed chief technology officer, executive vice president (EVP) and executive board member at KONE. Kranz succeeds Tomio Pihkala, who has been...
Company forms, skyscrapers progress in L.A., San Francisco and Oakland.
Luxury Residential Skyscraper Completed in San Francisco The Office of Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) has completed its 56-story glass tower in San Francisco’s Transbay District, the Council on Tall Buildings and...
Eklund’s Moves Northeast Facilities
Eklund’s has relocated its Baltimore/Washington, D.C., premises to nearby 4404 Lottsford Vista Road, Lanham, Maryland 20706. It serves as the Northeast office and elevator cab manufacturing facility for the company....
New York and New Jersey
Tall-building activity remains brisk, government takes action, and a supplier opens its newest branch. Legislature Pushes for Elevator Mechanic Licensing The New York state Senate unanimously passed a bill that...
thyssenkrupp in the South
OEM announces milestone, acquisition. First TWIN System in North America Debuts The 21-story, mixed-use Coda Building (ELEVATOR WORLD, June 2016), featuring the first North American installation of thyssenkrupp’s TWIN elevator...
OEM, supplier, consultancy make changes.
Lerch Bates Announces New Roles for Schultz, McGrath Lerch Bates Inc. announced Jeff Schultz, previously executive vice president (EVP) of Strategic Accounts, is now EVP of Corporate Development, focusing on...
Tokyo, Chiba are targets of new tall developments.
Tokyo Plan With 200-m-Tall Mixed-Use Tower Approved A plan to demolish older offices, apartments, houses and temples to make way for a 200-m-tall mixed-use tower on a 1.6-ha site close...
thyssenkrupp lands metro contract; big changes on the horizon for Paris skyline.
Escalator Modernization Order for thyssenkrupp thyssenkrupp won a contract to modernize 53 escalators on Line 2 of the Lille Metro in northern France, the “successful result of a longstanding customer...
