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| | ELEVATOR WORLD Europe's March-April 2024 Issue | Features: Elevator Forum 2024; Are We Prepared?; Year in Review: Tall Trends of 2023; A Tower of Success…
Columns: Improving All the time; Never Compromise on Safety; Analysis and Calculation of Elevator Car Fall Incidents Caused by Serious Damage of Diverter Pulley Bearing Focus on Sustainability: Championing Urbanization; Exploring a Greener Future; Sky High; Sustainability in the Elevator Industry — Impact Review… | | | EW EUROPE PHOTOGRAPHY ISSUE AND SPECIAL REGIONAL SECTION ON THE DACH REGION | | | The July-August 2024 issue of ELEVATOR WORLD Europe feature the 12th Annual Photo Contest Winners and a Special Regional Section on the DACH (Germany, Austria, Switzerland) Region with bonus distribution at The Elevator Show Dubai. Submissions will be accepted through July 1. The Advertising deadline is July 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. | | | 12TH ANNUAL PHOTO CONTEST OPEN UNTIL MAY 24 | | | Photo submissions are open for the 2024 Photo Contest until May 24. This year's contest offers a new category: NAEC (National Association of Elevator Contractors) Through the Years (in celebration of the association's 75th anniversary). Other categories include Projects In Action, Elevators/Lifts (Commercial), Elevators/Lifts (Private Residence), Escalators & Moving Walkways, Machines & Components, City Skylines and Tall Buildings, Historical/Legacy Equipment (pre-1965), Who Reads Elevator World?, Elevator Company Factories/Facilities, Hoistways and Illustrations. The nomination period will be followed by public voting, and winners will be featured in our July-August 2024 issue. Send us your best shots, and you could win one of many great prizes and be published in ELEVATOR WORLD magazine! We look forward to viewing the elevator world through your unique lens. For more details, rules and to submit your photos, visit our website. | | | SCHMERSAL GROUP RESTRUCTURES SERVICE DIVISION | | | K.A. Schmersal GmbH & Co. KG (Schmersal Group), headquartered in Wuppertal, Germany, has restructured its service business, which is expected to result in great development potential in light of growing demand. The range of safety services offered by tec.nicum will be significantly expanded, particularly in digitalization and complete solutions for machine safety. Read more here | | | LIFTINSTITUUT HOSTING WEBINAR ON NEW MACHINERY REGULATION | | | Liftinstituut is hosting a webinar titled Transition to the New Machinery Regulation - Spring 2024 on May 16. The webinar will be hosted by certification specialists Willem Kasteleijn and Tijmen Molema with a focus on manufacturers, from components manufacturers to complete systems manufacturers. R&D engineers, certification managers, compliance engineers and regulatory engineers among others can benefit greatly from the informative updates of this webinar. Read more here | | | NIPPON OTIS PILOT PROJECT INTEGRATES SERVICE ROBOT WITH ELEVATOR FOR MAIL DELIVERY | | | Nippon Otis Elevator Co., in collaboration with robotics provider FIG Corp., has integrated a service robot with an existing Otis Gen2® Prestige elevator as part of a pilot project at the Oita Prefectural Government Office, in Oita, Japan. To improve delivery efficiency and free employees for more value-adding tasks, the Oita Prefectural Government Office has launched the pilot of mail delivery by robot. Read more here | | | NEW PLATFORM AIMS TO DEMOCRATIZE ELEVATOR DESIGN ACCESS | | | In a move to democratize access to elevator designs, Themis Stamatiou, MSc, a seasoned industrial designer and elevator production manager, has launched Elevator Plans. This new platform aims to connect micro-manufacturers and freelancers with a supply of high-quality and production-ready elevator plans, previously accessible only through extensive time and financial investment. Read more here | | | SUBMIT YOUR PROJECT FOR THE EW PROJECT OF THE YEAR AWARD | Submissions are now being accepted for the ELEVATOR WORLD 27th Annual Project of the Year Awards. 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 will be 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. The submission deadline is September 30. | | | LIFTINSTITUUT PRESENTS CERTIFICATE OF COMPLIANCE TO HYDRONIC | | | Liftinstituut recently presented Italy's Hydronic Lift S.p.A with a Certificate of Compliance according to American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) A17.1-2019/CSA B44-19 for its hydraulic buffer. ISO 17025-calibrated measurement devices were used to check the speed and deceleration of the hydraulic buffer during the tests. Read more here | | | GERMANY-BASED NONPROFIT CIA RE-ELECTS BOD | The nonprofit CAN in Automation (CiA) association, based in Nuremberg, Germany, re-elected its Board of Directors (BoD) on April 9. They are: Magnus Hell from Infineon, technical director; Christian Schlegel from CHS Consulting, business director; and Holger Zeltwanger as managing director. Additionally, the regular CiA General Assembly appointed Bosch, Emotas, ESD, Kvaser, Microcontrol and Murata as Technical Committee members. Read more here | | | ITALY'S PRYSMIAN ACQUIRES U.S.-BASED ENCORE WIRE | | | Italy's Prysmian Group, which includes the Draka Elevator business, on April 15 announced a US$4.15-billion deal to acquire U.S. firm Encore Wire, outlets including Reuters report. "M&A is in our DNA," observed Prysmian CEO Massimo Battaini, who on April 18 is set to inherit the role from previous CEO Valerio Battista. Read more here | | | SWECO LANDS EUR6-MILLION DESIGN CONTRACT FOR FINLAND TRAMWAY | Stockholm, Sweden-headquartered Sweco, a leading European engineering and architecture consultancy, announced on April 17 it has been awarded a EUR6-million (US$6.4 million) contract to design the first tramway in the City of Turku, Finland. Including the design of 19 new stations along the 12-km stretch between the city center and the Varissuo area, construction of the tramway is expected to take place from 2026 to 2031. Read more here | | | TATTOLI ELECTED CONVENER OF CEN TC 10/WG 7 | The European Federation for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (EFESME) announced that Paolo Tattoli was elected convener of the European Committee for Standardization (CEN) Technical Committee (TC) 10/Working Group (WG) 7 in March. CEN TC 10/WG 7 covers accessibility to lifts for persons including those with disabilities. Read more here | | | TKE SIGNS AGREEMENT WITH FC BARCELONA FOR ESPAI BARÇA PROJECT | FC Barcelona and TK Elevator (TKE) have signed a sponsorship agreement under which TKE becomes an official provider for the Espai Barça project for the next five seasons, until June 30, 2029. As part of this new partnership, FC Barcelona and TKE will work together to incorporate 69 state-of-the-art elevators and 78 escalators into the new stadium. Read more here | | | KONE TO PARTICIPATE IN REAL ESTATE ARENA 2024 IN HANOVER | KONE plans to exhibit at the Real Estate Arena 2024 tradeshow at the Hanover Fairground in Hanover, Germany, on June 5-6, where company representatives aim to answer the question, "What does the future of the real estate industry look like and how can we actively shape it?" Read more here | | | CTBUH PRESIDENT ANNOUNCES 90 GLOBAL CONFERENCE SPONSORS | Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) President Dr. Antony Wood announced on LinkedIn 90 global sponsors for the CTBUH 2024 London and Paris Conference, "New or Renew: Addressing the Density Dilemma" on September 23-27. Including vertical-transportation (VT) OEMs KONE, Otis, Schindler and TK Elevator, the list represents a "who's who of the very top companies creating sustainable, dense cities around the world." Read more here | | | SCHINDLER PARTNERS WITH FRAMEN FOR ELEVATOR SCREEN AD PLATFORM | Schindler has partnered with FRAMEN, a content streaming platform, to promote high-quality lift screens as a digital advertising platform in 150 upscale hotels in the DACH region (Germany, Austria and Switzerland). By 2025, the digital offering in the lifts will be expanded to 220 hotels in Salzburg, Tyrol and Vorarlberg. Lift screens are ideal from an advertising point of view, as attention is almost undivided in lifts, and every hotel guest will use them. Read more here | | | ARITEC NEW MATERIALS GROUP ANNOUNCES ALBERTO SASSI PARTNERSHIP | Luzern, Switzerland-headquartered Aritec New Materials Group on May 3 announced a strategic partnership with Alberto Sassi S.p.A., the Italian company known for its elevator machine technology. Elevator belts, Aritec stated, offer numerous advantages over traditional traction rope systems, including longer service life of up to 15 years, quieter performance and reduced environmental impact. Read more here | | | ALIMAK GROUP COMMITS TO SCIENCE BASED TARGETS INITIATIVE | Sweden-headquartered Alimak Group announced on May 7 it has committed to the Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTi) and will set greenhouse gas (GHG) emission-reduction targets aligned with the Paris Agreement. "SBTi is the next logical step for the Group, and it underscores our ongoing efforts to decrease our environmental impact and drive positive change across our value chain," observed Alimak Group CEO Ole Kristian Jødahl. Read more here | | | SUPERYACHT DESIGN FIRST TO INCLUDE TELESCOPIC ELEVATOR | As part of a final-year project, Finn Berg, who recently completed a bachelor's degree course in Automotive and Transport Design at the University of Coventry in the U.K., designed a superyacht explorer he calls EXO-X, autoevolution reports. Superyacht explorers are capable of reaching remote locations and are loaded with exploration and research gear, along with having fancy amenities that sometimes rival, or even beat, luxury yachts. Read more here | | | OTIS ANNOUNCES WINNERS OF FOURTH MADE TO MOVE COMMUNITIES COMPETITION | Otis has announced the four regional winners from around the world in its Made to Move Communities student challenge. In the fourth annual competition, students developed innovative mobility solutions aimed at expanding access to green space in urban communities to advance residents' well-being with the guidance of Otis volunteer mentors. Read more here | | | EFESME PRESENTS MANIFESTO FOR THE EUROPEAN ELECTION | The European Federation for Elevator Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (EFESME) presented its Manifesto for the European Election ahead of the European Union's early June elections to "ensure that the voices of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are heard loud and clear." Representing a majority of the lift sector, SMEs are key to innovation, job creation and economic prosperity, EFESME observed. Read more here | | | KONE EVP PEOPLE & COMMUNICATIONS ROLE TRANSITIONS TO BRIDGER | The KONE executive vice president (EVP), People & Communications, and Executive Board member role will transition from Susanne Skippari to Kaija Bridger, effective July 1. Beginning her career at KONE in 2025 and holding various leadership positions in both People & Communications and Human Resources, Bridger will report directly to KONE President and CEO Philippe Delorme. 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, Lindsay Fletcher and Kathleen Farrell. 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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