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| | ELEVATOR WORLD Europe's July-August 2024 Issue | Features: ELA General Assembly Held in Istanbul; ISO Plenary Meeting; Fermator Celebrates First Family Day; Photo Contest 2024… Columns: Past, Present and Future; A New Era for VT in Spain… Special Regional Section: The DACH Region: From Recruitment Game to Brand Communication; 100 Years of Plastics Expertise | | | EW EUROPE TO FOCUS ON ESCALATORS AND MOVING WALKS | | | The November-December 2024 issue of ELEVATOR WORLD Europe will focus on Escalators and Moving Walks with bonus distribution at Lift Expo Italia. Submissions will be accepted through November 1. The Advertising deadline is November 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. | | | PROJECT OF THE YEAR DEADLINE EXTENDED TO OCTOBER 30 | | | The submission deadline for ELEVATOR WORLD'S 27th annual Project of the Year Awards has been extended to October 30. We are seeking submissions of projects featuring vertical, horizontal or inclined transportation systems with an innovative design, special application or approach that solved a major problem or overcame a unique challenge. Projects are judged on innovation, originality and creativity, challenges overcome, installation methods and techniques and use of advanced technology and overall quality of presentation. This year's categories are Elevators, New Construction; Elevators, Modernization; Escalators, New Construction; Escalators, Modernization; Moving Walks; Inclined Elevators; Platform Lifts & Stairway Chairlifts; Private-Residence Elevators; and Special-Purpose Lifts. All entries will be judged and categorized as received by an impartial panel of experienced industry experts and professionals. Winning entries will be published in the January 2025 issue of ELEVATOR WORLD. Winners in each category will be acknowledged with an award of recognition. | | | KONE ANNOUNCES AMBITIOUS NEW 2025-2030 STRATEGY, "RISE" | | | On September 19, KONE announced its ambitious new 2025-2030 strategy, "Rise," with which it aims to lead in employee and customer experience, sustainability, innovation, growth and profitability. Effective January 1, 2025, "Rise" includes four strategic components: accelerate digital to fundamentally transform how KONE provides service, drive modernization to unleash growth opportunities, win residential work to lead in the vertical-transportation (VT) industry's largest segment and cut carbon to drive customer value and differentiation. Read more here | | | TKE HANDLING MAJOR COLOGNE SUBWAY ESCALATOR MODERNIZATION | | | TK Elevator (TKE) announced on September 17 it has been awarded a major escalator modernization contract to modernize numerous escalators serving subway stations in Cologne, Germany. The project includes 23 new victoria heavy-duty escalators and the MAX Internet of Things smart monitoring and digital technology solution to minimize maintenance and downtime. Read more here | | | OTIS ANNOUNCES MADE TO MOVE COMMUNITIES COMPETITION THEME | | | On September 10, Otis announced the theme for this year's Made to Move CommunitiesTM global student competition: applying AI to enable more inclusive and sustainability mobility solutions. More than 250 students from dozens of schools representing more than 15 countries and territories around the world will be guided by Otis volunteer mentors to develop solutions. Read more here | | | NORDIC LIFT EXPO TO WELCOME RECORD NUMBER OF VISITORS | | | Partnering this year with Elevator World, Inc., the Nordic Lift Expo expects to welcome a record number of visitors to Scandic Infra City in Stockholm, Sweden, on November 12. Organizers say this year's iteration will have more exhibitors than ever before, including a sizable number of international suppliers. Many international players "want to try out the Nordic market," Nordic Lift Expo Project Manager Bo Magnusson observed. Read more here | | | FERMATOR ANNOUNCES RELOCATION OF JOSEP MONROIG TO POLAND | Fermator Group, a global leader in the manufacturing of automatic door systems for lifts, has announced a key strategic move as part of its ongoing efforts to strengthen operations and expand its global presence. Josep Monroig, who currently holds the position of coordinator of Manufacturing and Distribution Centres, will relocate to the facility in Poland, Enginova Sp. z o.o. Read more here | | | KONE ANNOUNCES PROMOTION OF MARGOT TAYLOR | | | KONE announces that Margot Taylor has been promoted to vice president, Strategy & Corporate Development – Americas, and joins the KONE Americas Leadership Team. In this role Taylor will focus on driving the next phase of KONE's strategy in the U.S., Canada and Mexico, which includes overseeing portfolio execution, mergers and acquisitions, business transformation and continuous improvement. Read more here | | | ZIEHL-ABEGG APPOINTS JOACHIM LEY AS CEO | Ziehl-Abegg has announced that Chief Operating Officer (COO) Joachim Ley, who has been with the company since 2021 and played an active role in shaping the company's global growth, has been appointed as the new CEO of Ziehl-Abegg. Ley, who holds a degree in industrial engineering, has been active as the company's COO since 2021. Read more here | | | ARMENIA CAPITAL PUSHES FOR OLD ELEVATOR REPLACEMENT | | | All old elevators in residential buildings in Yerevan, Armenia, must be replaced within four years, Yerevan Mayor Tigran Avinyan said on September 23, ARKA News Agency reports. The head of the Yerevan Municipality Department of Public Utilities, Arsen Karoyan, reported that 286 new elevators are currently to be replaced, of which 112 have already been installed. Read more here | | | TÜV SÜD WORLD'S FIRST NB FOR NEW MACHINERY REGULATION | TÜV SÜD announced it has become the world's first Notified Body (NB 0123) for the new EU Machinery Regulation 2023/1230 (EU-MR) to appear on the European Commission's NANDO website as recognized, listed and authorized to perform the special conformity assessment procedures acc. to Article 25 for machinery as set out in Annex I of the new Regulation. This new item of EU harmonization legislation came into force in July 2023, repealing the previous Machinery Directive 2006/42/EC. Read more here | | | CTBUH PRESIDENT ANTONY WOOD TO STEP DOWN | After nearly 20 years at the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH), Dr. Antony Wood has made the decision to step down as president at the end of this year. Wood joined CTBUH in a voluntary role in 2004 as vice president for Europe and Research before being invited to Chicago to take up the executive directorship (later, CEO) in 2006. During his tenure, CTBUH has grown from one staff member in 2006 to a global entity. Read more here | | | KONE HOSTS CAPITAL MARKETS DAY IN HELSINKI | KONE hosted its Capital Markets Day for institutional investors and analysts in Helsinki on September 27. During Capital Markets Day, KONE presented its new strategy called "Rise" for 2025-2030. A number of KONE executives presented during the live broadcast, covering the areas that each person oversees. A copy of the presentations can be found here. Read more here | | | ODESA, UKRAINE, AUTHORITIES TENDER ELEVATOR MAINTENANCE CONTRACTS | Authorities in Odesa, Ukraine, recently held several tenders to select elevator maintenance companies, Intent reports. As long as the company is able to eliminate tender document inconsistencies, Gamayun Lift Limited Liability Co. will service 406 elevators through December 31, 2025, for the city's Chornomorsky Housing and Communal Service under a UAH6.86-million (US$166,626) contract. Read more here | | | OTIS REALIZES OPPORTUNITIES THROUGH CHINA VT RENEWAL | U.S.-based OEM Otis is realizing vast business opportunities through China's vertical-transportation (VT) renewal programs, particularly local governments' plans to modernize more than 40,000 residential elevators that are older than 20 years, Bastille Post Global reports. The source observed that Otis has been in the Chinese market for approximately 40 years, establishing factories in Tianjin, Hangzhou and Jiaxing in addition to an R&D center in Shanghai. Read more here | | | INGKA CENTRES AND IKEA PLAN GAME-CHANGING COMPLEX IN DELHI NCR | Ingka Centres, part of Ingka Group that includes the IKEA Scandinavian home furnishings chain, plans to build the INR5,500-crore (US$669-million) Lyli Noida mixed-use complex that "represents a new era of retail destinations in the Delhi National Capital Region (NCR)" of India, INGKATM announced in September. Read more here | | | DEMELZA CHOSEN AS 2024 LEEA CHARITY | The Lifting Equipment Engineers Association (LEEA) named Demelza as its charity to support in 2024. Demelza delivers top-notch care to extraordinary children and young people battling serious or life-limiting illnesses and their families across Kent, South East London and East Sussex. Demelza helps take care of children's and families' physical, emotional, cognitive and social needs. Physical and creative therapies are provided. Read more here | | | Editorial submissions, reprint permission requests, subscription/removal requests should be sent to the EWEU News editorial staff: Angela C. Baldwin, Kaija Wilkinson and Lindsay Fletcher. The ELEVATOR WORLD Media Kit can be downloaded here. EWEU News is a registered trademark, and all rights are reserved. Copyright 2024 © Elevator World, Inc. | | | |
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