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Standard Summary and Additional Rail Calculations With Respect to Seismic Forces

“TS EN 81-77 Safety Rules for the Construction and Installation of Lifts — Particular Applications for Passenger and Goods Passenger Lifts — Part 77: Lifts Subject to Seismic Conditions” “TS...

Export Disaster, Import Boom!

Hello to everyone, We are about to be excommunicated from many countries due to faulty and incomplete elevator deliveries abroad. And nobody really seems to care about why this is...

Türkiye Maintained Its Second Place in ENR 250 with 40 Companies

Engineering News Record (ENR) magazine, an international construction industry publication, published the 2023 results of the "Top 250 International Contractors," which is based on the revenues generated by contractors from...

TASİS Football Field Carpet Tournament

Akkaya Lift was the champion at the football tournament organized by TASİS in Istanbul.  All-Elevator Industry Employers' Union (TASİS), founded last year as the one and only union for the...

TASFED Southeast Anatolia Meetings

The Turkish Elevator Industrialists Federation (TASFED) visited TASFED member associations in Gaziantep and Diyarbakır on August 4-6 and met with regional companies. The first meeting was between the Board of...

Following a Stagnant Summer

We are leaving behind a hot summer above seasonal norms as we enter September, and it is safe to say that it has also been a stagnant summer for our...

Reliable Brakes for Gearless Machines

No high-rise building without elevators - the architecture of our cities in particular would be inconceivable without safe vertical passenger transportation. For this to be comfortable and risk-free, the safety...

Reverse Bending and Its Effects on Lift Ropes

by Serdar Tavaslıoğlu In the assembly training videos I published, there were questions about the sheaves that cause reverse bending, which was mentioned in the machine placement section.  It was...

Suspension Means for Lifts

Steel ropes and chains compose the suspension means that should be used for suspending the lift car, counterweights and balancing weights in line with EN 81-20 standard. The standard defines...

Hyundai Elevator Launches Advanced Maintenance Service ‘MIRI’ for Elevators

Hyundai Elevator announced on the 1st of June that it plans to introduce an innovative elevator advanced maintenance service called 'MIRI,' which integrates Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence (AI),...