Product Spotlight
Car Door Drive Repair Kits
Preparation for the most common cause of lift breakdown can reduce downtime, even when only one technician is available. The vast majority of the millions of elevators that operate worldwide...
New Innovations
Improvements in space savings, residential installation, monitoring and metering join a new steel-belt-cable MRL system. MRL Elevator for Low- to Mid-Rise Buildings thyssenkrupp has launched evolution 200, a cost-effective machine-room-less...
Improved Technology
A new hoist, compact cylinder and sensor join a simulator used to optimize building transportation. High-Capacity Traction Hoist Power Climber has added the UpPro P2514 VFD 5-18, what it calls...
Applied Technology
Apps lead the way in design, management and more New Elevator Range, VR Design App Spain-based MP Lifts’ new elevator range FULL AMBIENTUM is an enlargement of the company’s CARevolution...
New Equipment Released Around the World
New elevators and escalators, communications components, and more Otis Launches Advanced Service Solutions, High-Rise Gen2 MRL and Escalator Otis launched two service-related products in May. First is its Otis ONE™...
New Releases and Updates
Drives and useful tools hit the market. High-Performance Door Drives Langer & Laumann’s door drives developed the “smart” L&L QKS 6 door drive. The company said it used its 20...
Traffic Analysis for High Rise Buildings to Be Modernized
New KONE product improves analysis for projects during and after modernization. by Darren Batey and Mikko Kontturi This paper was presented at Madrid 2016, the International Congress on Vertical Transportation...
Digitalization and Lift Doors
Meiller innovation makes door drives intelligent. Digitalization is a fact of the modern world, with more and more “intelligent” devices coming into use and changing people’s lives. While its implementation...
Meeting Needs
Escalator components join a new digital platform and jobsite aid. Escalator Steps and Step Chains Adams Elevator Equipment Co. escalator steps and step chains are designed and built to ensure...
New Modules, Changes to Elevator Portal
Multiple calculations, functions and more supplement counterweight guide-rail calculations. According to EN 81-20/-50, now in effect in Europe, the tare weight of guide rails for counterweights must be considered: small...
