efficiency
LEEA Launches Membership Portal
The U.K.’s Lifting Equipment Engineers Association (LEEA) has launched a Membership Application Portal designed to streamline the association’s application process. While applications must still meet LEEA’s eligibility and standard criteria,...
TKE Implements Remote and Automated Operation of PBBs
TK Elevator (TKE) is the first company worldwide to successfully implement large-scale remote and automated operation of passenger boarding bridges (PBBs). During inter airport Europe 2025 in Munich, Germany, on...
MEBS To Launch KEGMIL Cloud-Based Platform in Singapore
Tokyo-based Mitsubishi Electric Building Solutions Corp. (MEBS) plans to launch the KEGMIL cloud-based platform to streamline elevator and escalators (E&E) field-service maintenance in Singapore in October. Developed by Singapore-based startup...
TÜV SÜD To Consolidate Two Divisions
TÜV SÜD, one of the world’s leading testing, inspection and certification providers with global headquarters in Munich, Germany, announced on July 23 it is consolidating its Industry Service and Real...
Prysmian Welcomes New Distribution Warehouse in Canada
Prysmian announced on July 23 it opened a new 25,000-ft2 distribution warehouse just steps from its Prysmian Draka EHC escalator manufacturing plant in Oshawa, Canada. Richard Parvesse, senior vice president of...
KONE Wins Two Red Dot 2025 Awards
KONE has won two awards in the prestigious Red Dot Award: Product Design 2025 competition. In the Interior Design Elements category, the award went to KONE Entrance, a programmable guiding light...
Tokyo’s MEBS Develops Innovative Elevator Hall Lantern
Tokyo-headquartered Mitsubishi Electric Building Solutions Corp. (MEBS) has developed a new elevator hall lantern for overseas markets that it says is the “industry's first elevator direction display that uses projection.”...
Schindler Unveils New MRL Elevator Schindler 5000
On April 29, Schindler announced the launch of the new Schindler 5000, a machine-room-less (MRL) elevator designed for low- to mid-rise offices, hotels, hospitals, apartment complexes and more. Available in most...
Metro Taipei Adjusts Escalators Speeds for Efficiency
Metro Taipei in Taiwan increased the speed of some escalators at high-traffic stations to improve efficiency, reports Taiwan News. The speed of 47 upward escalators at 29 major stations will...
Schindler R.I.S.E Used on First-Ever U.K. Project
For the first time, one of the five Schindler Robotic Installation System for Elevators (R.I.S.E) construction robots is being deployed on a U.K. project – the all-electric 105 Victoria Street...
