Otis Elevator Company Marks 160th Anniversary
Otis Elevator Company, the United Technologies Corp. unit which powered cities skyward and moves passengers up and down structures as diverse as the Eiffel...
KONE replaceing 128 escalators in Washington D.C.
KONE Inc. is announcing a $154 million deal to build escalators for Washington, D.C.’s mass transit system at its Coal Valley plant.
That’s the largest...
World’s fastest elevator at 60 km/h
As skyscrapers get taller, elevators are getting faster.
The new ones travel as fast as a car on a city street at over 60 km/h.
In...
Schindler 3300 solar elevator
With another pace setting innovation, Schindler, one of the world’s leading providers of elevators and escalators, has introduced an elevator powered by solar energy....
Underground Storage with Elevator for Your Bicycles
Riding your bike is not only good for the environment, but it’s good for your health. However, the biggest drag about biking is the...
Kone acquires Ascent Elevator
KONE has acquired the San Francisco-based business of Ascent Elevator Services, Inc., an independent elevator company with a significant share of the service market...
Theresa Christy – The Ups and Downs
You press a button and wait for your elevator. How long before you get impatient and agitated? Theresa Christy says 20 seconds.
As a mathematician...
ThyssenKrupp introduces vegetable-based hydraulic fluid
In Georgia, ThyssenKrupp Elevator Americas has introduced enviromax, the elevator industry’s first performance-improving vegetable based-hydraulic fluid for use in hydraulic elevators.
“Enviromax is formulated from...
ThyssenKrupp Elevator Canada replacing faulty sheave jammers
A company that built more than 2,000 elevators with faulty brake devices has agreed to pay $12 million to firms that had to repair...
KONE Escalator Solutions Win Top Innovation Award
KONE Inc . is pleased to announce that Architectural Products Magazine has awarded its 2012 Product Innovation Award to two of the company's offerings,...
ThyssenKrupp World Trade Center and Time Square elevators infringing Schindler’s patents
Elevators at the World Trade Center and Times Square made by ThyssenKrupp AG contain technology that a Schindler Holding AG unit said infringes one...
Schindler’s Hurricane Sandy Recovery Plan in Action
While Hurricane Sandy affected locations spanning over 900 miles, the New York and New Jersey areas suffered the worst from this historic storm. Schindler...
Roosevelt University’s New “Vertical Campus”
One result of our ever-growing urban population is that colleges are challenging the definition of “the college campus” experience. Without an abundant horizontal space...
Police searched the headquarters of Schindler Elevator
Police searched the headquarters of Schindler Elevator K.K. in Tokyo, Japan on Monday following an accident involving one of its elevators at a hotel...
Sigma Elevator aims to increase production
Sigma Elevator Co aims to increase the annual production capacity of its factory in Dalian from 10,000 units in 2011 to 30,000 units by...
Elevator in one day
Elevator installation is one of the most problematic, expensive and time-consuming aspects of construction. Modular Elevator Manufacturing, Inc. (MEM) offers a fully operational elevator...
KONE recognized for excellence by Johnson Controls
KONE Inc . is proud to announce it has been named a leader in supplier execution and customer satisfaction by Johnson Controls. As part...
New Mitsubishi NEXIEZ-GPX line of elevators
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation announced today that it will launch the NEXIEZ-GPX, a new line of NEXIEZ-series elevator for Central and South America on November...
KONE to Supply North America’s first JumpLift
KONE has won an order from Tucker HiRise and Great Gulf to provide elevators and escalators for its One Bloor project, a 75-story, mixed-use...