Product Spotlight

Diverse Offerings Hit the Market

Xizi leads the pack of new and updated products for both elevators and escalators. Noise-Reducing Brakes With Xizi Noiseless Brakes, working air-gap noise stays below 58dB, reducing air-gap noise by...

Wittur Group Unveils New Products, Strategy

Wittur Group CEO Dr. Ing. Walter Rohregger speaks with EW on his company’s focus and future. While in Augsburg, Germany, for Interlift 2013, your reporter was invited to visit the...

Reimagining the Future of Vertical Transportation

DigiGage’s new products, partnership spur the realization of the company’s high ambitions. Ever since the basic concept of a safe elevator was introduced by Elisha Graves Otis in 1854, we...

New and Updated

This month’s products, including three from CEDES unveiled at Interlift and others from Carlo Gavazzi, Inc., Energy Zero S.r.l., and Lightspeed Lift Solutions, cover a wide range of applications, from...

Sematic Aesthetic Elevator Configurator

During Interlift 2013, Sematic Elevator Products unveiled the online cabin and door design tool Aesthetic Elevator Configurator. Available at configurator.sematic.com, it allows users to create customized elevator cabins in 3D...

Avire Rolls Out New Wiring Looms For Memcom

Lift safety and communication systems provider Avire has developed new wiring looms for its Memcom emergency alarm system, intended to make integrating Memcom into installed lifts quick and simple. The...

Lighted Push-Button Switch With Added Options

Electro-Mech Components, Inc. (EMC), has expanded its SW44895 quad-lamp push-button switch to include multiple options, such as a rubber dust-boot panel and enlarged lens, to meet industry requirements. Offering dual-...

Otis Launches CompassPlus

The company touts its destination-management system as a fundamental change to the way people move through buildings. In August, ELEVATOR WORLD had the opportunity to talk with Otis team members...

Calexa Elevator Software

The Institute for Vertical Transportation (IVT) has released software for calculation and examination of lift design and safety. CALEXA® is intended for consultants, designers, installers, supervisors, Notified Bodies and inspectors...

Modular Motor Protection System

Carlo Gavazzi Inc. has released DMPU, a new modular motor protection system. This evolution of its current-, voltage- and phase-monitoring devices is intended to complement the company’s other motor-control products...

SEA-LEVEL RISE THREATENS NEW YORK HOUSING AND TALL BUILDINGS

Sea-Level Rise Threatens NYC Housing and Tall Buildings

HOUSTON SENIOR APARTMENT COMPLEX SUFFERING ELEVATOR BREAKDOWNS

Houston Senior Apartment Complex Suffering Elevator Breakdowns

Herrmann

In Memoriam: Tim Herrmann

Armas

Otis Appoints Armas as President U.S. and Canada

Example of Mogilevliftmash elevator interior; image courtesy of Mogilevliftmash

Elevator Assembly Plant Officially Opens in Belarus