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OEMs and Their Equipment
An innovation debuts, an honor is bestowed, and a baseball stadium gets a lift. KONE Follows Through With U.S. JumpLift Debut KONE has begun to utilize its JumpLift self-climbing elevator...
Nairobi, Cape Town see large projects.
thyssenkrupp, Partners Supply Nairobi Hotel, Market Joining forces with strategic distribution partners, thyssenkrupp supplied 35 units to the Greenhill Hotel and Village Market in Nairobi, Kenya, which thyssenkrupp describes as...
Subway upgrades and tower updates
Renold to Provide Escalator Drives to Busy Tube Station Renold Plc, headquartered in Manchester, U.K., has been awarded a contract to supply seven bespoke escalator drive packages to the London...
Hitachi, thyssenkrupp look to the future of growing markets.
Hitachi: Thailand Training Center, Cambodia Joint Venture Hitachi, Ltd. and Hitachi Building Systems Co., Ltd. have opened their Asia Training Center, a facility that includes classroom, virtual and hands-on training,...
Hires, repositionings take place around the world.
Ridder: New Position with thyssenkrupp Michael Ridder, former head of Media Relations at thyssenkrupp Elevator, has stepped into a new role with the company, joining thyssenkrupp’s Materials Services team. In...
Towers Around the Nation
Hope for an ailing city, momentum in Miami and something for baseball fans Detroit Tower Intended to Signal City’s Rebirth The City of Detroit’s Downtown Development Authority has approved a...
A huge door is manufactured for NASCC, and an OEM lays down roots.
Mitsubishi Electric Opens Dallas-Area Branch Mitsubishi Electric Elevator & Escalator has opened an office at 631 South Royal Lane in Coppell, Texas, to serve the growing Dallas-Fort Worth area. Noting...
Many tall-building developers will take Manhattan, and a historic elevator landmark is preserved.
63-Story Tower Rising in Midtown East A 63-story, 803-ft.-tall mixed-use tower designed by Pelli Clarke Pelli with SLCE as executive architect had risen to the sixth floor by March in...
L.A. continues its roll, inspections are an issue statewide, and a mixed-use structure is planned in San Francisco.
L.A.: 53-Story Convention Center Hotel Proposed TriCal Construction Inc. hopes to build a 53-story hotel across from the Los Angeles Convention Center’s South Hall at 1300 S. Figueroa Street, the...
“Show-Stopping” Office Tower Rising Outside Paris
What is being described by anchor tenant Saint-Gobain as a “show-stopping” 39-story, 178-m-tall office tower, designed by Valode & Pistre Architects, is rising just west of the Paris city limits...
