U.S. News
EESF AGM Planned for March
The Elevator Escalator Safety Foundation (EESF) Annual General Meeting (AGM) will take place on March 5-7, 2024, in Tampa, Florida. Board members will meet at Hyatt House/Hyatt Place Tampa Downtown...
VDA Hires Associate Consultant
VDA, Inc. (VDA) recently hired Tim Hind in the role of associate consultant. Hind has more than 20 years of experience in the vertical-transportation industry. Most recently, he was branch...
KEB America Releases DL4 Servo Motors in North America
Shakopee, Minnesota-based KEB America, Inc., a subsidiary of KEB Automation KG, recently announced that its DL4 series of brushless servo motors is now available to OEMs across North America. KEB’s...
ASME A17 Meeting To Be Held in January
The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) A17 Committee will meet on January 8-11, 2024, in New Orleans, Louisiana. The hotel selected for the meeting is the Hyatt Centric French...
EAOF Holds Golf Outing, Quarterly Meeting
The Elevator Association of Florida (EAOF) held its second annual golf outing on December 4. The sold-out tournament took place at The Savannahs Golf Course on Merritt Island, Florida, and...
Champion Elevator Wins HOBI Award
Champion Elevator Corp., an independently owned, full-service elevator company with locations in New York and Connecticut, recently announced that it is part of the team that won a Home Building...
Tilting Elevator Shaft Causes Construction Delay
Crews have begun to repair a Rapid City, South Dakota, mixed-use project that made news for its tilting elevator shaft after a shim failed between the foundation and precast, Construction...
NEII DEI Team Attends Tradeswomen Build Nations Conference
Members of the National Elevator Industry, Inc.’s (NEII) diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) team attended the annual North America’s Building Trades Unions Tradeswomen Build Nations conference in Washington, D.C., on...
Otis Again Named to America’s Most Responsible List
Otis Worldwide Corp. has been named to Newsweek’s list of America’s Most Responsible Companies for 2024, and this is the company’s third consecutive year on the list. Otis ranked 187...
New South Carolina Elevator Company Opens
Licensed electrician Cameron Raybourne recently announced the official opening of his new company, Alchemy Elevator. Headquartered in Charleston, South Carolina, the business will serve South Carolina, North Carolina and Georgia,...
