Columns
Texas Strong
With safety as a constant guide, RICO Elevators grows and meets challenges with a focus on heavy industry. Receiving the Award of Safety Excellence 2022 from Texas Mutual Insurance Co....
Clean and Safe
Gianni Cotteta (GC), president of Ad Rail USA™, tells your author (KF) how the company’s Safe2Touch GBAC STAR™ Registered program is benefiting facilities and passengers. photos by Ad Rail...
1973
ELEVATOR WORLD celebrates its 20th year. It is interesting to note that ELEVATOR WORLD founder William C. Sturgeon did not acknowledge or celebrate the fact that the magazine had entered...
Opportunities for All
How Otis is addressing a labor shortage through supporting women. by Dot Mynahan and Erika Goldstein In the past few years, Otis redesigned professional uniforms and invested in new safety...
10 Questions (Plus a Bonus) With “Your Elevator Pal” Ed Rivera
LinkedIn personality takes some time to answer your author’s questions. I believe one of the hardest parts about writing this column is determining the next interesting person to answer my...
“Is There Even More?”
3D printing in elevator manufacturing Your author, Undine Stricker-Berghoff (USB), recently talked to Oliver Simmonds (OS), graduate engineer (University of Applied Science) in mechanical engineering and principal engineer at Schindler...
Make Way for Modular
Modular Elevators Manufacturing, Inc. offers solutions to meet increasing demand for modular elevators. California-based TL Shield & Associates, Inc., a full-service vertical-transportation company owned by Tom Shield, began distributing modular...
CAN XL at Germany Tradeshow and Beyond
CiA association says evolving communication platform holds promise for the elevator industry. The nonprofit CAN in Automation (CiA) association hosted a booth and Bosch, NXP and Vector presented running CAN...
California Proposed Elevator Code Changes
Your author states that, if adopted, there will be far-reaching consequences. by Richard Blaska The state of California boasts the fourth-largest economy in the world, with a population of nearly...
VT Legislation Updates
NAEC reports on legislative in-session updates. submitted by NAEC The National Association of Elevator Contractors (NAEC)’s mission is to serve the interests of the vertical-transportation (VT) industry by promoting safety...
