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ACME Home Elevator Responsibility Shifts From Stannah to Arrow

Stannah, the U.K.-based home accessibility leader, and Arrow Lift, with four California, U.S., locations, announced in March responsibility for ACME Home Elevator's home elevator and repair business in central and...

California Fire Department Practices Technical Elevator Rescues

The Chico Fire Department of Chico, California, conducted a specialized training exercise simulating a rare, high-risk elevator rescue scenario on April 1, KRCR reports. The drill, performed at Chico State’s Whitney Hall,...

DeSimone Acquires San Francisco-Based KP Elevator Consulting

DeSimone Consulting Engineering, headquartered in NYC, announced on April 2 it acquired San Francisco-based KP Elevator Consulting, part of an ongoing strategy to broaden its multi-service platform. The acquisition will...

Total Access Expands L.A. Area Footprint Through Acquisition

Total Access Elevator, headquartered in Santa Fe Springs, California, and backed by private-equity firm Century Park Capital Partners, announced the acquisition of Simi Valley-based Vertical Elevator Solutions on March 13,...

Elevator Hobbyist Expands Elevator Database To Cover 10% of The U.S.

Logan Ober, a Petaluma, California, resident and systems engineer for the Novato Unified School District, announced earlier this year that he expanded his U.S. elevator database, The Elevator Database, to include...

Castro Station Escalator Down for Two and a Half Weeks

The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency announced that starting the week of February 17 the south escalator at the Castro Muni Station will be out of service for two and...

Maintenance Worker Rescued From Elevator in California

California fire department crews rescued a person stuck in an elevator at a cement plant in the Lebec area on Monday while performing maintenance on it, Bakersfield Now reports. On January 21,...

Costs For San Diego Government Tower Elevator Repairs Soar

San Diego City Council members approved a contract extension with Otis that adds US$1 million to the original US$3 million budget for emergency repairs to the elevators serving the Civic...

BART’s Top 24 Accomplishments of 2024 Include Escalator Updates

In a recent press release, Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) shared its top accomplishments from this year in enhancing customer experience, improving safety and cleanliness, and investing in the future,...

Liftech Elevator Partners With Axxiom Elevator

Liftech Elevator has partnered with Axxiom Elevator, a rapidly expanding independent elevator services company doing business across Arizona, California, Florida and the Washington D.C. area. Liftech Elevator Service was founded in...

Ribbon cutting for the Ahmedabad warehouse; image courtesy of Wittur India

Wittur India’s Ahmedabad Warehouse Completes First Dispatch

Barcelona skyline, including the famous Sagrada Família basilica designed by Antoni Gaudí; photo by jarmoluk for Pixabay

Historic Spain and Portugal Power Outage Affects Elevators

Images courtesy of the Gale family

In Memoriam: Pat Falk Gale

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Mitsubishi Electric Acquires Ireland’s Ascension Lifts

Thea Bowman House at the DeSales Center; image courtesy of theabowmanhouse.org

Elevator Completed at Child Care Center in NY