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Schindler Receives Service Contract

Schindler has received a major service contract with Simon Property Group, one of the world’s largest real-estate companies. The contract will include the maintenance of more than 750 elevators and...

Honolulu Airport To Receive Terminal, Upgrades

A draft environmental assessment from the Hawaii Department of Transportation in October 2012 detailed a modernization project for Honolulu International Airport totaling US$600 million. A new terminal, concourse, cargo facility...

Eklund’s Appoints Northeast Regional Director

Eklund’s, Inc. has appointed Jason Speicher as Northeast Regional director at the company’s Lanham, Maryland, custom elevator cab manufacturing facility. Speicher is responsible for Eklund’s business operations in the northeast,...

Kings III Announces Director Of Field Operations

Kings III Emergency Communications, headquartered in Coppell, Texas, appointed Jon Daugherty as director of field operations. Daugherty will oversee the company’s service, installation and inventory management. Prior to joining Kings...

Peelle Announces New Sales Representative

The Peelle Co. has announced William J. Dunlevy & Son, Inc. as its sales representative for New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Washington, D.C. and northern Virginia. Dunlevy & Son is...

Brickell Citicentre In Miami

The June 27 groundbreaking for Brickell CitiCentre in Miami marked the start of a four-year, US$1.05-billion project. Developer Swire Properties plans for the 5-million-sq.-ft. development to include office towers, condominiums,...

Los Angeles Development Breaks Ground

J.H. Snyder Development Co.’s high-rise residential project in downtown Los Angeles started construction in May and is expected to be completed in 2014. The Vermont, located on the corner of...

Energy-Efficiency Program Includes Escalator Renovations

The Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport (BWI) in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, is to receive several renovations to improve its energy efficiency, including the upgrade of 64 escalators and moving...

United Announces Educational Topics

The hosts of United in Atlantic City 2012 have set educational topics for the upcoming event on September 10-13 in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Among the issues to be discussed...

Lift Solutions/Adams Announcements

Adams Elevator Equipment Co. announced in March that its sales and service partner Lift Solutions, Inc. would begin serving customers throughout the U.S. The companies have been in cooperation since...

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Elevator Assembly Plant Officially Opens in Belarus

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Unsworth Joins LML Lift Consultants Senior Consultant

This July will mark 40 years since the beginning of Wurtec; image courtesy of Wurtec

Wurtec Celebrating 40th Anniversary

HydraSafe surveyed 17 elevators at the Metropolitan Museum of Art with partner Claddagh, which will be providing a control system for single-plunger code compliance; photo by Hugo Schneider for Wikipedia.

HydraSafe Brake: NYC Training, a Move and a New Hire

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Hotels Prepare to Implement Recent Elevator Code Revisions