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2 months ago | 
elevatorworld.com | Events Sun |Angie Baldwin |Madeleine Olausson |Mitsubishi Electric
From the heart of Rovereto, Italy, just a few kilometers from the Austrian border, comes a success story that has revolutionized the elevator industry in Europe. Sicor Italy S.r.l., an Italian company founded in 1981, is today synonymous with quality, innovation and reliability in the production of traction machines for elevators.
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2 months ago | 
elevatorworld.com | Vijay Pandya |Events Sun |Angie Baldwin |Madeleine Olausson
submitted by Mitsubishi ElectricAiming to further strengthen its elevator and escalator business in Europe via mergers and acquisitions (M&A), Mitsubishi Electric Corp. announced in December 2024 it acquired all shares of Norwegian elevator company ALT Heis, headquartered in Bergen, Norway, on November 29 through wholly owned subsidiary Stockholm, Sweden-based Motum.
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2 months ago | 
elevatorworld.com | Events Sun |Angie Baldwin |Bülent Yılmaz |Madeleine Olausson
The winter chill so evident in India’s financial capital during November 2024 witnessed a thaw as the last month of the calendar year commenced.
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Jan 2, 2025 | 
elevatorworld.com | Madeleine Olausson |TK Elevator |Bülent Yılmaz
Hello everyone, I would like to greet you with a long-continued comparison: the difference between sales and marketing. As someone who knows both of these structures closely, I would like to start with a question we encounter in several professional training while addressing the subject from a practical perspective and with a few unrefined, organic examples. Question: What is “abundant” for marketers and “insufficient” for salespeople?
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Sep 3, 2024 | 
elevatorworld.com | Madeleine Olausson |IoT’s Role |Vikram Mehta |Thomas Salter
submitted by Access BDDAccess BDD, in conjunction with one of its North American business partners — 101 Mobility — helped a New Jersey family continue to live in their home by installing a Flow X curved stairlift. Robert Anderson had been finding the stairs increasingly challenging, and his wife, Judith, noticed that he was becoming weaker due to muscle wastage.
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Sep 3, 2024 | 
elevatorworld.com | Thomas Salter |Madeleine Olausson |Lindsay Fletcher |IoT’s Role
The U.K.’s largest event for the built environment, UK Construction Week (UKCW) London made a welcome return to ExCeL London last week with a string of exclusive launches, a star-studded line-up of speakers, international pavilions from across the globe and a host of new features.
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Sep 3, 2024 | 
elevatorworld.com | Angie Baldwin |IoT’s Role |Vikram Mehta |Madeleine Olausson
The survival of a 1927 specification and tender for an electric goods lift, prepared by Smith, Major and Stevens, Ltd. for the Atlas Works (Shrewsbury), provides a unique opportunity to examine vertical-transportation (VT) industry business practices in the late 1920s. Part one of this article (1927 Smith, Major & Stevens Specification & Tender (Part 1)) offered an overview of the history of Smith, Major and Stevens from its founding in the early 1800s to the 1920s.
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Sep 3, 2024 | 
elevatorworld.com | Kathleen Farrell |Lee Gray |Lindsay Fletcher |Madeleine Olausson
Recently, ELEVATOR WORLD Editor-at-Large Ricia Sturgeon-Hendrick wrote that she believed many of us are just a little afraid of AI. She said: “I think it is the lack of humanness. We are accustomed to getting information from computers but believe they have been educated and programmed by humans. Somehow, generative AI is different — beyond human.
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Dec 5, 2023 | 
elevatorworld.com | Albert So |Undine Stricker-Berghoff |Angie Baldwin |Madeleine Olausson
At the end of August, your author visited the Niederfinow ship lift on the Oder-Havel Canal, approximately 60 km northeast of Berlin, Germany. For safety reasons, life jackets were worn during the tour. In beautiful summer weather, the landmark could be seen towering high in the flat, sandy surrounding countryside from a distance.
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Dec 5, 2023 | 
elevatorworld.com | Madeleine Olausson |Angie Baldwin |Muharrem B. Çakirer |Undine Stricker-Berghoff
Submitted by Control TechniquesWhen considering elevator drive packages, one of the most consequential elements of control is the Variable Frequency Drive (VFD), which provides power, speed and torque control to the elevator motor. Advancements and optimization in VFD technology for the elevator industry have opened the possibility for improved monitoring, troubleshooting and predictive maintenance schedules. Overall reduced downtime can be leveraged through these improvements.
