Focus Topics
The Escalators with the Buffer Material as the Step Tip Part
Evaluation of an escalator model that adopts a buffer material at the front edges of its steps to enhance safety by T. Kikuchi, H. Takahashi, A. Yamamoto, S. Yokoe and...
Alternative Testing for Escalators and Moving Walks
Requirements for escalator and moving-walk speed have appeared in the ASME A17.1/CSA B44 standards since 2000 (Requirements 6.1.4.1 and 6.2.4.1). The A17.1 code, prior to harmonization in 2000, contained requirements...
A Trip Through Time & Around the World
This Readers Platform celebrates the 125th anniversary of the escalator. submitted by thyssenkrupp Elevator Imagine a world where the dream of being transported upward via a moving staircase was simply...
The Bostwick Elevator Gate
The Unlikely Story of How a Patent Acquisition became Synonymous with sliding, collapsible metal elevator gates One of the most iconic components of many late 19th- and early 20th-century elevators...
A Commitment to Energy Efficiency
Fermator Group Reduces Energy Consumption of the Door Control System There are many articles about vertical-transportation energy consumption and its economic impact within the total energy consumed in the world....
Market Booms for Code-Compliant Swing Doors
Niagara Belco positions itself to take advantage of growing trend The boom in residential elevators is bringing a burgeoning demand for code-compliant swing doors, and as North America’s oldest and...
Smooth Operators
A look at the Future of Moving elevator doors It is often said about life that when one door closes, another opens. And so it goes with elevator door operators:...
Of Hand Dryers and Elevator Door Systems
Airdri, parent company of Chicago’s Formula Systems, has interesting history, exciting future. Automatic hand dryers and elevator-door detection systems and speech annunciators may seem like strange bedfellows, but they coexist...
Multipurpose Elevator Contractor Management Solution
Rimrock’s new offering includes violation tracking for NYC vertical-transportation companies. Rimrock Corp. has unveiled FIELDBOSS Lift 2.5, a major update for its award-winning elevator contractor management solution built for the...
JM Associates/Burnham + Co.
We at JM Associates/Burnham + Co., a Division of HUB International Northeast, have been creating comprehensive insurance and risk management products for the elevator industry for more than 40 years....
