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From Berlin to Barbados
A small German business has grown into a go-to provider of crucial components for elevator construction and maintenance worldwide. Anchor rails, scaffold tubes, ceiling hooks and work platforms: if it’s...
Let There Be (UV-C) Light
Startup recognized as top innovator in Germany, aims to take escalator-handrail sanitation system worldwide. Germany has quite a few business-plan competitions and companies that have won them. In 2015, there...
Technological Development of the Ultra-High-Speed Elevator with a Speed of 1,200 mpm
How the world’s fastest elevator was developed by Tetsuya Nakayama, Hideka Matsuoka, Yoshiki Higashida, Jun Ohtsuki, Keizo Nakamura and Kazuhisa Mori This paper was presented at Madrid 2016, the International...
The Extra Mile
In this Readers Platform, your authors provide a list of questions to ask yourself when handling projects that call for high-performance doors. by Carlo Ferrari and Tommaso Sala In projects...
Technology for the 21st Elevator Century
The science behind a product touting full door-area protection for passengers, freight and the door itself This paper was presented at Madrid 2016, the International Congress on Vertical Transportation Technologies,...
Whatever Happened to MAC Door Equipment?
In this Readers Platform, your author recounts the evolution of a popular door operator and the company that supplies and supports it. Many of you are familiar with MAC door...
Compact Elevator Operators
Creating more rentable space for property owners In today’s new-construction and modernization environment, it’s all about compressing time to save money and idealizing space to achieve maximized rental revenues. “To...
The Quintessential Art Deco Object
In this Readers Platform, your author explores the lush designs of elevator doors that reflect the iconic NYC buildings in which they reside. As a style, Art Deco is recognizable...
Eyes on the Future
thyssenkrupp unveils “mixed-reality” preventative-maintenance technology Microsoft HoloLens at 1 WTC in NYC. Scientists studying 3D images of the surface of Mars. Medical students learning about human anatomy from digital (rather...
Smart Inspection System
KOELSA obtains world’s first mobile-device-based elevator-inspection-system patent. Reprinted from KOELSA The Korea Elevator Safety Agency (KOELSA) obtained a patent for an “elevator safety system using a mobile device.” It is...
