Focus Topics
Hillside Access Issues Solved
Hill Hiker, Inc. was founded 20 years ago by Bill MacLachlan in Orono on the northern shores of Lake Minnetonka, Minnesota. Building on the expertise of MacLachlan’s father-in-law, a Massachusetts...
A How-To From Texacone
Your author provides an in-depth look at maintaining and troubleshooting packing for hydraulic elevators. The Texacone Co. has been supplying the elevator industry with hydraulic seal sets for more than...
Power Play
How to modernize your existing elevator to achieve net-zero energy and meet modern urban mobility and sustainability challenges Approximately 40% of total U.S. energy consumption was attributed to buildings last...
Spider Leverages 70 Years of Experience
This Product Spotlight focuses on the Seattle-based company’s hoists, false car and work basket. Spider® by Safway Group is investing in an expanded elevator product lineup. It has been bringing...
Columbia Helps Southern California Grow “Up”
Work abounds in the increasingly more upscale region. High-rise buildings, 1,000-plus-ft. in height, proliferating in southern California? That was unimaginable not that many years ago, but today, such structures –...
Square Peg for a Round Hole
Sacramento’s Capitol collaborates with Schumacher, Columbia and GAL/Hollister-Whitney to deliver unique residential project. Sacramento, California, home to approximately 450,000 (more than 2.1 million if one includes the greater metropolitan area),...
Pixel Turns Five
Details of EC’s elevator control system are revealed in this Product Spotlight. This summer marks the fifth anniversary of the introduction of the Pixel Elevator Control System from Elevator Controls...
Market Trends: Trending Up
From Southern California to Washington State, a West Coast construction boom that is transforming skylines means plenty of work for VT companies. Fueled in large part by the technology boom,...
Robotics Leader Yaskawa Plans Slovenia Factory submitted
Company behind Motoman industrial robots expects new facility to supply 80% of European demand. Japanese technology group Yaskawa Electric Corp. is preparing to build a robot plant in Slovenia, the...
Smart Machines Are Ushering In a New Generation of Production
Companies must embrace Industry 4.0 or risk falling behind the competition. Information technologies are transforming all aspects of our lives. For many people, this may be most noticeable socially, but...
