Focus Topics

Only One Way: Upward

Through technology, Inovance is partnering with others to help India expand its elevator design. Inovance, one of the largest providers of elevator integrated solutions in India, combines an integrated drive...

Balancing Price-Quality Equations

An elaboration on this long-lived endeavor of the Indian housing market Real estate customers can’t be merged into a single bucket. Each has different levels of requirements and experiences. Investors...

The Two Modes of Failure of Escalator Braking Systems

This paper was first presented virtually at the 12th Lift & Escalator Technologies Symposium in September 2021 and printed at the symposium website at liftsymposium Keywords: Escalator braking systems, runaway...

Transporting London

Acknowledging the years of experience and specialist knowledge of the TfL internal escalator team Transport for London (TfL) is a massive transportation operation that keeps an eye on everything transport...

Is the Hydraulic Lift Dead?

Though still in use, the one-time fluid-raised elevator appears to be on its way out. Almost five years ago, in the March 2017 edition of Subir & Bajar, Ángelo Martini,...

Scissors Lifts Are Facilitating

by Ertuğrul Kurt Scissors lifts has many applications in industry. They are sometimes used for leveling in front of a machine, sometimes for carrying loads between the floors and sometimes...

Robotic Freight Elevator by Pera Mühendislik

Pera Mühendislik is drawing great attention with its robotic freight elevator at Acıbadem Project Management, Istanbul Acıbadem Maslak Hospital, designs manufactured in line with the customer’s private technical demands as...

Sayal Vinç Prefers a Panoramic Hydraulic Lift

Sayal Vinç, which carries out projects, manufacturing, installation and after-sales services for overhead travelling cranes, gantry cranes and lifting equipment, replaced the vertical transportation unit at the office in its...

Advantages and Disadvantages of Hydraulic Lifts

Hydraulic lifts have been used as vertical-transportation (VT) element for a long time. Hydraulic machines use liquid fluid power to perform work as it moves in proportion with the flow...

The Passenger Elevator’s First Decade

The 1860s promoted a growing expansion of passenger elevator use in the U.S. The period between 1860 and 1870 witnessed the gradual expansion of passenger elevator use in the U.S....