Why aren’t we building a space elevator?
Launching an object into space, even a small object, is incredibly expensive. The rocket fuel needed to get a space shuttle into orbit reflects...
Schindler increasing efficiency?
What if robot technology could help us further increase efficiency safety and even diversity on construction sites while allowing elevator technicians to focus-on what...
KONE will deliver elevators for Saudi Arabia’s Kingdom Tower
Elevator company KONE has won the contract to provide lifts and escalators for Saudi Arabia’s Kingdom Tower – set to be the world’s tallest...
The World’s Most Unusual Elevators
Here is few unusual elevators from around the world. If you know about any other unusual elevator, please let us know so we can...
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...
ACCEL from ThyssenKrupp
ThyssenKrupp analysis shows that people at a distance of more than 500 metres from a metro station usually opt for other means of transport,...
TK Elevator Cleaning System
TK Elevator recently received the prestigious Red Dot Design Award for its innovative "Intelligent Elevator Cleaning System," a concept developed by TK Elevator Korea....
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...
Elevator made out of composite materials
The world may soon get the first passenger elevator (enclosure) that is made out of composite materials.
Unveiled by the Singapore Lift Company (SLC) on...
Liebherr elevator for tower cranes
Liebherr is to unveil the newly developed Liebherr LiUP crane driver elevator to the world at the Intermat 2015. It is perfectly coordinated to...
Hyundai Elevator Bicycle Automatic Parking
Hyundai achieved all orders on bicycle automatic parking facility on 3 places as Yeong deung po station(captial area west office), Dae gu station(Dae gu...
Space Elevator Closer to Liftoff With Nano Carbon Cable
Professor Matteo Pasquali recently unspooled one of the longest carbon nano tube fibers from his lab in Rice University. One of the many possible...
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...
World’s first stair lift for your overweight pooch?!
With the exception of the Mediterranean minnow that is Malta, Britain is the fattest nation in Europe* – and worryingly our canine companions are...
China’s growing market
In the past decade, thanks to China's economic development and increased demand for construction projects, the elevator market in the country has grown rapidly.
Last...
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...
MULTI first rope-free elevator system by ThyssenKrupp
The era of the rope-dependent elevator is now over, 160 years after its invention. ThyssenKrupp places linear motors in elevator cabins, transforming conventional elevator...
Invisible Wheelchair Lift
Sesame Invisible Lift is the ideal solution for buildings where you need to have a wheelchair lift but you want it to be hidden, blended...