Escalators
KONE to Renew Operating Model in Changing Environment
Effective July 1, KONE plans to implement a revised operational structure and executive board to "increase its competitiveness and customer focus in a changing operating environment." The aim, KONE said,...
ATIS, Liberty Elevator, KJA Merge to Form ATIS Ascenda Partners
ATIS, Liberty Elevator Experts and KJA Consultants have merged into ATIS Ascenda Partners, LLC, creating North America's largest provider of comprehensive vertical-transportation (VT) management and advisory services, the companies announced...
Apex Lifts Announces Interactive Client Portal LiftWatch
U.K.-based Apex Lifts has introduced LiftWatch — formerly known as CALM — an interactive client portal allowing users to find in-depth information about their lifts and escalators. Available on any...
Chicago Blue Line Station to Get Elevator
A multi-million-dollar project will bring an elevator and other upgrades to the Avondale neighborhood of Chicago’s Belmont Blue Line station, which locals say has suffered from a lack of accessibility,...
Deep Metro Station in India With 26 VT Units Nearly Complete
With 95% of the work complete, according to My Pune Pulse, the Maha Metro's Civil Court interchange station in Pune is expected to open in approximately one month. Quoting a...
KONE to Provide 17 VT Units to New Stockholm Metro Station
KONE has been selected by NCC Sweden, general contractor for the new Hagastaden station of Sweden's Stockholm Metro, to provide a range of PeopleFlow® solutions, including 17 vertical-transportation (VT) units....
Skywalks With Vertical Transportation to Open in India
Mehdipatnam, a popular residential area in the southwestern suburbs of Hyderabad, India, is set to get a 390-m-long skywalk to facilitate pedestrians, and it will be equipped with 11 elevators,...
KONE Receives EUR200-Million Loan to Support R&D
In December, the European Investment Bank (EIB) announced it signed a EUR200-million (US$216.4 million) loan with KONE to support R&D for more energy-efficient and intelligent elevators, escalators, moving walks, components...
WMATA Station Reopens With New KONE Escalators
The north entrance of the Silver Spring Washington Metropolitan Transit Authority (WMATA) and Maryland Area Regional Commuter train station in the Washington, D.C., suburb of Silver Spring, Maryland, reopened on...
interlift 2023 Expects More Joint Participation
AFAG Messen, organizer of interlift 2023 on October 17-20 in Augsburg, Germany, expects more joint participation than in 2019, as well as several countries that will be represented in new...
