Lifts
Destination: Augsburg
interlift 2022 promises to be the most important since its inception 31 years ago. photos courtesy of VFA-Interlift After more than a two-and-a-half-year hiatus, interlift 2022, the international trade fair...
Historic Tower’s Elevators Prompt Arguments in NYC
A more-than-80-year-old, 59-story office building in NYC is experiencing repeated problems, numerous sources, including Goad News, reported in late March. The City Bank-Farmers Trust Company Building towers in the Financial...
Sheridan Lifts Wins Three-Year Maintenance Contract
The U.K.’s Sheridan Lifts recently announced on LinkedIn that, following a public tendering exercise, the company has been awarded the lift contract for Blackburn & Darwen Council. This is a...
LEEA Annual Golf Event Announced for June
Lifting Equipment Engineers Association (LEEA) recently announced its annual golf day will be at the Hilton Puckrup Hall on June 30. Set within 140 acres of Gloucestershire countryside, the course...
A Quarter of French Elevators Need Quick Renovations
According to the Lift Federation in France, 25% of the country’s elevators are more than 40 years old and, according to a survey, 77% of the nation’s people want help...
LEEA Announces Sector-Focused Webinar Series
The Lifting Equipment Engineers Association (LEEA) has scheduled a series of free, sector-specific webinars to be held on Zoom throughout 2022. Each webinar will be geared toward end-users in the...
LECS UK Hires Ford as Project Engineer
LECS UK, a lift and escalator consultancy with offices in London and Manchester, recently hired Michael Ford as project engineer. Prior to this appointment, Ford spent eight years at Allianz...
Abstract Deadline Near for Lift, Escalator Presentations
Directors of the Lift & Escalator Symposium Trust are overseeing the 13th Symposium on Lift and Escalator Technologies and are urging those wishing to contribute to submit their abstracts by...
Lift Technician Dies In Fall In Kuala Lumpur
A lift technician fell to his death while working on a lift at a shopping mall on January 28 in Cheras, a suburb of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, TheStar reports. The victim was...
TKE Wins U.K. Project For Close To 300 Units
German-based TK Elevator (TKE) has been selected to build and install nearly 300 lifts and escalators for the four major HS2 stations, Construction Enquirer is among outlets to report. TKE has signed...
