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Style and Substance

IGV and Studio Marco Piva collaborate to create ON AIR, designer cabs that fight microbes. submitted by IGV Group Italian elevator manufacturer IGV Group has collaborated with design house Studio...

Custom Products, Specific Solutions

ICM Lift Components offers a variety of specialized systems. by Roberta Cosso ICM Lift Components of Trento, Italy, boasts 40 years of experience in the elevator industry. It actively operates...

“Innovation” Sums Up Last Four Years

Montanari has seen a lot of success in its 50 years of traction machine manufacturing, especially recently. submitted by Montanari Group We have thought a lot about choosing a word...

Fixtures for the World

DMG has more than six decades in the industry, but its sights are set firmly on the future. Rome-based DMG has been providing elevator fixtures, such as push buttons and...

A Tour of Italy

In this On Camera, ELEVATOR WORLD Europe highlights its visits with elevator companies throughout the country.  by T.Bruce MacKinnon and Bülent Yılmaz In early February, before the coronavirus pandemic began...

A Return to Merchants on the Mediterranean

In early February, T. Bruce MacKinnon, president and CEO of Elevator World Inc. (my son), and Bulent Yılmaz, managing director of ELEVATOR WORLD Europe went on a whirlwind Tour of...

From R&D to Application

Roadmap used by KONE for its DX line of elevators offers guidelines for the process. KONE’s DX — “Digital Experience” — elevators, available since January 2020 (ELEVATOR WORLD Middle East,...

A Prototype Robot Named “Heidi”

Your author learns about new technologies at Schindler. photos courtesy of Schindler Your author (USB) recently spoke to Christian Studer (CS) of Schindler in Switzerland about R&D at Schindler and...

Noise Abatement

Stuttgart scientists study sound in buildings, but full-fledged testing of elevators has yet to commence. Your author (USB) recently asked Professor Berndt Zeitler, Professor Heinz-Martin Fischer and Dr. Jochen Scheck...

Einstein Elevator

Earthbound test platform promises zero-gravity research. Your author (USB) recently spoke with Professor Dr.-Ing. Ludger Overmeyer (LO) and Dipl.-Ing. Christoph Lotz (CL), Leibniz University of Hanover in Germany, Institute of...