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Sep 16, 2024 | 
elevatorworld.com | Ehtesham Ahmed |Philip W. Grone |Cem Kapukaya |Hale Nur AKDENİZ
submitted by interliftinterlift will take place at a new location for the first time in 2025: From 14 to 17 October 2025, the lift industry will meet at Messe Nürnberg. It is already clear that the world’s leading trade fair and the new location are winning over the industry. Numerous exhibitors, including some newcomers, have already registered to take part in interlift in Nuremberg in 2025. It is therefore becoming apparent that interlift will grow in terms of exhibition space.
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Apr 1, 2024 | 
elevatorworld.com | Kaija Wilkinson |Kevin Brinkman |Philip W. Grone |Andrew Goodwin
by Afonso GappoThis paper was presented at the 2023 International Elevator & Escalator Symposium in Edinburgh, Scotland. The JK Square building in São Paulo City, Brazil, consists of two towers. The first tower is a 21,400-m2 office building with 24 floors, four floors of garage and 14 elevators. The second tower consists of a hotel and residential apartments; the hotel has 130 rooms on the first 15 floors, and floors 17-24 are the residential areas with 57 apartments and seven elevators.
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Apr 1, 2024 | 
elevatorworld.com | Michael Ryan |Kaija Wilkinson |Kevin Brinkman |Philip W. Grone
Your author has known Don Gelestino, CEO and president of Champion Elevator Corp., for some time now — first when he owned Ver-Tech Elevator and now leading Champion Elevator. He and I share a passion for the NYC elevator industry, mainly for giving us our careers and for the amazing skyline it has created. Given the state of NYC and its struggles to get back on track and recover from the pandemic, I thought it was time for a “10 Questions” between two NYC elevator guys.
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Apr 1, 2024 | 
elevatorworld.com | Lee Gray |Kevin Brinkman |Philip W. Grone |Ricia Sturgeon-Hendrick
The elevator industry accommodates unique applications of every kind, including freight. Door and door operators are critical components to these applications. During The Peelle Co.’s 119-year history, it has accommodated low overheads, shallow pits, multiple vertical and slide-up configurations and widths up to 30 ft through 0 in. wide. Peelle was recently tasked with a challenging modernization due to our ability to provide a heavy-duty solution in a demanding application.
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Apr 1, 2024 | 
elevatorworld.com | Matt Jackson |Kevin Brinkman |Philip W. Grone |Kaija Wilkinson
by Andrew GoodwinThe American technological revolution of 1880 to 1890 produced a wave of new inventions that helped architects build higher than ever before. Bessemer steel, formed into I-beams, enabled taller and more flexible frame design than cast iron; newly patented sprinkler heads allowed buildings to avoid strict height limits that were imposed to control the risk of fire; and the patenting of AC electricity allowed elevators to be electrically powered and rise to 10 or more stories.
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Apr 1, 2024 | 
elevatorworld.com | Kevin Brinkman |Philip W. Grone |Ricia Sturgeon-Hendrick |Angie Baldwin
Headquartered in Bridgeport, Connecticut, with manufacturing facilities both there and in Kansas, Columbia Elevator has been a well-known and respected provider of elevator cabs, entrances and doors for nearly 60 years. Now, partnering with US Door Equipment Corp. (USDE), a greenfield investment and autonomous entity of Fermator solely dedicated to serving the North American (NA) market, Columbia is offering complete door systems and more to the open market.
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Apr 1, 2024 | 
elevatorworld.com | Kaija Wilkinson |Kevin Brinkman |Philip W. Grone |Lee Gray
images courtesy of AmtrakChances are the vertical-transportation (VT) professionals involved in the recent transformation of New York Penn Station’s busiest entrance at 7th Avenue and 32nd Street in Midtown Manhattan — a key part of a station that sees the rough equivalent of the population of Atlanta pass through each day — dreamed about the project while it was going on.
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Apr 1, 2024 | 
elevatorworld.com | Kaija Wilkinson |Kevin Brinkman |Philip W. Grone |Andrew Goodwin
The editorial this month will be a little different. The April issue is one of several this year that will help tell the story of how the National Association of Elevator Contractors (NAEC) came to be 75 years ago. For 70 of those years, ELEVATOR WORLD has been helping write their history and that of many other organizations in the industry. I want to write today about those few years in between when a group of men began to think a contractor association was needed.
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Feb 1, 2024 | 
elevatorworld.com | Angie Baldwin |Lindsay Fletcher |Ricia Sturgeon-Hendrick |Philip W. Grone
It was during the last National Association of Elevator Contractors (NAEC) convention in Reno, Nevada, in September 2023, that I sought to meet some new candidates for the 10 Questions column I write for ELEVATOR WORLD. One of the more social aspects of the convention is the pilgrimage to the hotel bar. The bar is the gathering place after dinner, after hours and after-after hours to talk, break bread, people watch or just plain socialize.
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Aug 1, 2023 | 
elevatorworld.com | Philip W. Grone |TK Elevator |Kaija Wilkinson |Carmen Maldacena
This year’s ELEVATOR WORLD Photo Contest hit some highs! The 388 photo submissions are the most-ever (as far as we know), and the Illustrations category got more submissions than ever before due to the expansion of the category to include one of this year’s most-talked about (even if not always positively!) topics: AI. We also added a brand-new category this year — Elevator Company Factories/Facilities — and the submissions did not disappoint.
