Product Spotlight
High-Tech Products Hit Market
Customization, smart solutions dominate industry’s latest offerings. Energy Efficiency for Escalators and Moving Walks Schindler UK, a leading provider of lifts and escalators, recently launched a series of innovations to...
Managing Elevator Contractor Operations
submitted by FIELDBOSS Business-management software for mobile devices helps keep elevator operations on track. As technology perpetually progresses, elevator contractors understand they can no longer rely on manual methods or...
Apps, Systems and Equipment
Time-saving solutions for both passengers and mechanics are among new offerings. Shutoff Ball Valve for Residential, LU/LA Elevators Maxton Manufacturing Co. offers a new ASME A17.1/CSA B44-compliant shutoff ball valve...
Destination Control, Remote Monitoring Facilitated
This month’s Focus Topic is represented in detector and turnstile, while a new system from Hyundai holds great potential. Evacuation Assistance During Seismic Events Draka’s Event Monitoring Device (EMD) detects...
Monitoring, Signaling and Cladding Applications
The latest technology to become available kicks off an array of products. Expanded Remote-Monitoring System SMIRC Automation has released two complementary systems to its Smart Monitoring Incorporating Relay Control (SMIRC)...
Elevator Products Launched
Valves, drives and a specially designed elevator fan are now offered. Hydraulic Lift Safety Valves London-based Apex Lifts is offering gate lock valves in an effort to minimize cases in...
Products Exhibit Diversity
New and renewed offerings for a variety of applications Wireless Controller The Peelle Co. has reintroduced its Wireless Freight Door Controller, incorporating software changes. Its control system provides constant wireless...
Lighting, Home Elevator and Safety Products
Man-D-Tec, RAM, Glazesafe and Peripheral Manufacturing tout offerings. Lighting Fixture for Cabins At a height of only 1.28 in., the low-profile fixture of Man-D-Tec, Inc.’s new EyeBeam™ is one of...
Emergency Power Units for Elevators
25-year-old Pennsylvania company provides array of entrapment-prevention products. Located in Allentown, Pennsylvania, Reynolds & Reynolds Electronics, Inc. has been in business 25 years. The company was founded in 1989 by...
Back to the Waterman
Inside the 16-story Wells Fargo office building (often called by its original name — the Waterman building) in downtown Mobile, Alabama, one finds elevator equipment dating from the mid 1940s,...