News

An Array of Projects for NYC

Condos, hotels continue to multiply in the Big Apple. KONE to Handle Historic Modernization in NYC KONE has been hired to renovate 28 elevators and install four escalators and two...

Companies on the Move

An Australian firm reinforces its commitment to safety, shares are acquired, experts are hired, and a U.K. company moves into a new location. Bain Announces Wittur Acquisition Bain Capital Europe...

NYC Surging

New York YIMBY: Condos, hotels on drawing board. “San Francisco’s Worth” of New Skyscrapers for NYC Developers intend to add a “San Francisco’s worth” of new skyscrapers to New York...

Old Building, New Purpose

Liberty Elevator and Peelle collaborate on interesting and satisfying revitalization project. With its great views of lower Manhattan and the new World Trade Center skyline, the East River area in...

Business News from around the World

A shakeup among U.K. firms headlines a section including Chinese market news and the founding of a magazine by a major OEM. Lerch Bates and MovvéO in the U.K. Lerch...

ThyssenKrupp North America has new leadership; companies tap regional managers.

Bass Now CEO Patrick Bass, formerly head of R&D for ThyssenKrupp Elevator in Essen, Germany, is now CEO of ThyssenKrupp North America, Inc., headquartered in Chicago. Bass fills a position...

Events around the World

The venerable Interlift continues to grow in Germany, as Dubai, U.K. and Iran prepare other gatherings for 2015. Interlift Announcements Interlift 2015 organizer AFAG Messen und Ausstellungen GmbH has announced...

Companies hire engineers on U.S. mainland and beyond.

Magnetek Hires Two for Engineering Segment Magnetek, Inc., an elevator drives manufacturer in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin, has announced that Gene Jansen and Joe Koren have joined the company as application...

European Activity

ThyssenKrupp Elevator, with a new pedestrian transportation system and test tower, highlights recent happenings. ACCEL Accelerated Moving Walk Unveiled in Spain In October at its Innovation Centre in Gijon, Spain,...

NYC and Environs Continue Hot Streak

Significant residential towers are on the drawing boards in Manhattan and Brooklyn. Tall-Building “Permit Frenzy” in September Demand coupled with imminent building-code changes are the drivers behind what New York...

HITACHI ELEVATOR TO FOCUS ON SMART BUILDING IN CHINA

Hitachi Elevator to Focus on Smart Building in China

(l-r) Todd Christensen and Craig Clabaugh

Metro Elevator Opens in Office in Iowa

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Passion for Acting Leads to VT Career

The extension will include three new stations; image courtesy of Otis.

Otis Taiwan to Supply 65 VT Units for MRT Extension

Different views of the proposed tower; images courtesy of RSHP

54-Story City of London Tower Approved