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| | ELEVATOR WORLD Europe's September-October 2023 Issue | Features: Sustainability in Spain; "A Heritage of Unsuspected Richness"; A Usual Certainty; A Return to Greatness; Beauty in Bellavista
Events: Schwelm Symposium 2023; WEE Expo 2023 Shanghai
Columns: CEDES iDiscovery; Condition Monitoring of Elevators Using Deep Learning and Frequency Analysis Approach; Open Data Platform for Lift Optimized Service: An Opportunity for SMEs in the Lift Industry; A Move Toward Standardization; Monolith Publishes First-Ever "State of AI in Engineering" Study; Challenges of Elevator Modernization; Safety, Reliability and Innovation; Like New: Modernizing Hydraulic Elevator Systems | | | EW EUROPE TO FOCUS ON DIGITALIZATION | | | The January-February 2024 issue of ELEVATOR WORLD Europe will focus on Digitalization (AI, automation, simulation, BIM, digital twin and more) and feature the 2024 Project of the Year winners. There will be bonus distribution at Smart Lift & Mobility World 2024 on March 1-3 in Bengaluru, India. Submissions will be accepted through January 2. The Advertising deadline is January 8. Contact Bülent Yılmaz for editorial submissions and editorial and advertising inquiries within Europe. Those outside of Europe may contact Angela C. Baldwin for editorial and T. Bruce MacKinnon for advertising. | | | KONE PRESIDENT AND CEO ROLE TO TRANSITION FROM EHRNROOTH TO DELORME | | | Finland-based KONE announced on October 25 the president and CEO role will transition on January 1, 2024, from Henrik Ehrnrooth to Philippe Delorme. Ehrnrooth will continue as an executive advisor through March 2024 to ensure a smooth transition. Ehrnrooth joined KONE in 2009 as chief financial officer, assuming the roles of president and CEO in 2014. Read more here | | | NTERLIFT TO MOVE FROM AUGSBURG TO NUREMBERG STARTING IN 2025 | | | After more than 30 years in Augsburg, Germany, interlift, the world's leading trade fair for elevators held every two years, will move to Nuremberg, Germany, VFA-Interlift e.V. and AFAG Messen und Ausstellungen GmbH announced on October 12. Bringing together more than 500 exhibitors to present their products and innovations from all over the world, interlift 2023 took place at Messe Augsburg in Augsburg on October 17-20. The next interlift is planned for October 14-17, 2025, at the Nuremberg Exhibition Centre. Read more here | | | 119 EXHIBITORS FROM 13 DIFFERENT COUNTRIES EXPECTED AT GEE IN MILAN | | | Organizers of the inaugural Global Elevator Exhibition (GEE) on November 15-17 at Fiera Milano (Rho) in Milan, Italy, expect to welcome 119 exhibitors from 13 different countries — including Türkiye, China, France and Spain — to the new international trade fair focused on vertical and horizontal mobility. Read more here | | | KONE ANNOUNCES EXECUTIVE BOARD CHANGES | | | Axel Berkling has been appointed executive vice president (VP), Commercial & Operations. He will continue to be part of the KONE Executive Board, reporting to Henrik Ehrnrooth, president and CEO, for the time being. Berkling succeeds Hugues Delval, who has decided to leave KONE to pursue other opportunities. Read more here | | | OTIS EARNS ECOVADIS GOLD SUSTAINABILITY RATING | | | For the second consecutive year, Otis earned a gold rating from EcoVadis, the global sustainability rating platform, Otis announced on October 5. Ranking among the top 5% of all assessed companies, Otis said it will continue to use EcoVadis' universal scorecard platform as a "guidepost to help our customers see our progress." Read more here | | | VT COMPANIES NAMED TO WORLD'S BEST EMPLOYERS LIST | Forbes recently released its seventh annual list of the World's Best Employers, and a number of vertical-transportation (VT) companies made the list including Otis, Schindler, Mitsubishi Electric and KONE. The list, which ultimately spanned 43 countries, features the 700 companies with the highest scores. Forbes partnered with market research firm Statista to determine the ranking, surveying more than 170,000 employees in more than 50 countries who work for multinational companies and institutions. Read more here | | | AKE WELCOMES HUGHES AS U.K. COUNTRY MANAGER | | | AKE Aufzüge & Fahrtreppen GmbH, headquartered in Baesweiler, Germany, recently announced it has named Gareth Hughes as U.K. country manager. Hughes joins AKE from Orton Lifts & Escalators, where he was director of the escalator division. Prior to that, he was head of operations in the U.K. for WeMaintain. Read more here | | | INVERTEK LAUNCHES "INDUSTRY CHANGING" VFD AT INTERLIFT | Elevator motor control technology manufacturer Invertek Drives Ltd. launched its new variable frequency drive (VFD), Optidrive Elevator Core, on October 17 at interlift 2023 in Augsburg, Germany. Describing Optidrive Elevator Core as "industry changing," Invertek observed the new drive provides "unprecedented" size, functionality and power. Read more here | | | UK SERVICE LIFTS NOW EXCLUSIVE U.K. DISTRIBUTOR FOR METALLSCHNEIDER GMBH | | | UK Service Lifts, a leading company in the supply and installation of service and goods lifts, announced it has become the exclusive distributor for Metallschneider GmbH, a German manufacturer of metal fabrications, goods lifts and other equipment, in the U.K. market. Read more here | | | SCHINDLER RAISES 2023 REVENUE AND NET PROFIT FORECAST | Swiss elevator maker Schindler lifted its 2023 revenue and net profit forecast on October 19, saying its services business continued to grow while new installations declined less than the market, Reuters reports. Schindler now expects revenue growth between 6% and 8%, as well as net profit to reach between 880 million Swiss francs (US$978.54 million) and 910 million francs (US$1018.58 million) for the full year. Read more here | | | CIBES LIFT GROUP ACQUIRES ELEVATOR SERVICE CO. TO STRENGTHEN U.S. POSITION | Cibes Lift Group has entered into an agreement to acquire Elevator Service Co., a full-service elevator contractor, to strengthen its position and create new business opportunities in the U.S. Following the completion of the transaction, Elevator Service Company will be a wholly owned subsidiary of Cibes Lift Group but will maintain its brand. The business will be run by newly appointed Managing Director Matthew Montgomery, previously head of Sales for Elevator Service Company. Read more here | | | ORONA PRESENTS DIVERSE ORONA NEXT PLATFORM AT INTERLIFT | Orona, Europe's fifth-largest provider of vertical-mobility solutions for passengers, presented Orona Next, its platform of elevator products and services aimed at all market segments, during interlift in Augsburg, Germany. With Orona Next, the company continues to advance its Orona EU 2030 project, with the strategic objective of firmly consolidating its position in the European market and continuing to generate value. Read more here | | | QUESTIONNAIRE A TOOL FOR EUROPEAN SMEs TO EXPRESS CRITICAL ISSUES IN APPLICATION OF EN 81-20, 81-50 | With the support of their technical experts, the European Federation for Elevator Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (EFESME) and Small Business Standards (SBS), developed a questionnaire to understand the critical issues encountered by European SMEs in the vertical-transportation sector when implementing the EN 81 series of standards in their daily work.
Read more here | | | KONE COMPLETES SALE OF RUSSIAN DIVISION, LEAVES COUNTRY | Finnish elevator maker KONE has completed the sale of its Russian operations to S8 Capital, a Russian holding company that has acquired assets from several departing Western firms, Reuters reports. "The transaction has been approved by the relevant authorities and the closing of the deal means that KONE is now fully divested from Russia," KONE said in a statement. The value of the transaction was not disclosed. Read more here | | | IN MEMORIAM: VIKTOR KONSTANTINOVICH KHRISTICH | Longtime ELEVATOR WORLD Russia Correspondent Viktor Konstantinovich Khristich passed away at age 78 on October 24 after a long illness. His colleague, friend and fellow EW Russia Correspondent Yury Kireev said: "[Khristich] was an outstanding [vertical-transportation] designer and talented organizer. Under his leadership, projects for various lifting machines and mechanisms were developed. The largest of these included an aggregate for the lifting and evacuation of cosmonauts for the launch of the spacecraft at the Baikonur Cosmodrome and the the floating water gate's frame and the drive for a 200-m-wide shipping pass at the Saint Petersburg Flood Prevention Facility complex. One of his main areas of focus was escalators. The ETX escalator (Tunnel Escalator of Khristich) received first prize in EW's Project of the Year competition in the Escalators, New Construction category. Articles by Khristich and myself on the topic of escalators were often published in EW. [May] the kingdom of heaven [be granted] to him and eternal peace to his soul." | | | CTBUH BEST TALL BUILDING EUROPE IS SWEDEN'S SARA KULTURHUS | The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) named Sara Kulturhus in Skellefteå, Sweden, the Best Tall Building, Europe, as part of CTBUH's 2023 Award of Excellence program at the annual international conference in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur on October 16-20.
Read more here | | | CiA INVITES DISCUSSION ON CANOPEN AND AI AT SPS TRADESHOW | The nonprofit CAN in Automation (CiA) association invites discussion about AI and CANopen at its booth at the SPS (Smart Production Solutions) tradeshow in Nuremberg, Germany, on November 14-16. CANopen Lift is the CAN communication platform for elevator control systems. In the CiA November newsletter, CiA Managing Director Holger Zeltwanger explains how AI — the theory and development of computer systems able to perform tasks that normally require human intelligence — was introduced in the 1950s in a workshop at Dartmouth College. Read more here | | | TRADE PUBLICATION SHOWCASES SCHINDLER'S SUSTAINABLE FLEET EFFORTS | Schindler is among corporations embracing sustainable fleet management, an effort highlighted by FLEET EUROPE on November 7 ahead of the Fleet Europe Conference on November 22-23 in Lisbon, Portugal. The source observed that fleet and business travel are among the main sources of CO2 emissions for many corporations, prompting companies including Schindler to introduce initiatives like its new Responsible Sourcing Policy. Read more here | | | WEG TO SHOWCASE NEW ELEVATOR DRIVE RANGE AT GEE | WEG Automation Europe will showcase its new ADL500 elevator drive product line when it exhibits at the Global Elevator Exhibition (GEE), held in Milan, Italy, on November 15-17. This new business unit, which was born from the acquisition of the motion control unit of Gefran, combines WEG's experience in drive systems with Italian excellence in inverter lift technology.
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