| ELEVATOR WORLD's July Issue
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ELEVATOR WORLD's September 2024 issue will be the United Issue with a focus on Hoistway Tools, Components and Products. There will be special distribution at United 2024. The article submission deadline is July 15, and the advertising deadline is August 1. To participate or for more information, contact the EW Editorial Department at phone: 251-479-4514, ext. 130 or editorial@elevatorworld.com. To advertise, contact ext. 131 or advertising@elevatorworld.com.
NOMINATIONS NOW OPEN FOR THE ELLIES 2024
Nominations are now open for the 2024 Ellies Awards Program and will be accepted through July 12. This annual elevator industry awards program recognizes North American elevator and escalator vertical-transportation industry businesses that go above and beyond for their customers, employees, communities and the industry as a whole. Anyone can nominate a business, including your own, and the nominees will be voted on by you from August 1-14 to decide the winners. The Ellie Awards will then be presented at the UNITED Convention in Atlantic City, New Jersey, in September. The voting categories are Best Consultancy, Best Family-Owned Business, Best Inspection Company, Best Minority/Woman/Veteran-Owned, Best OEM, Best Supplier (Accessibility, Cabs/Interiors/Finishes, Communication Systems, Complete Systems, Controllers, Doors/Door Operators, Motors, Other, Ropes/Traveling Cables, Safety Products, Software and Special Application Lifts) and Best Contractor (North, South, East, West and Canada). If you have any questions or general feedback on the program, feel free to email. | | Lift Business Advisors in the last 3 years has successfully represented the sellers of more than 25 elevator contractors and suppliers in the elevator industry to a broad range of acquiring companies. Since our inception in 1998, we have provided hands on support to help improve profitability and optimize value for an eventual exit. Contact Jeff Eaton for a confidential discussion and complimentary strategic review. www.liftbusiness.com, jeff.eaton@liftbusiness.com Advertisement | | | | YELLAND PROMOTED TO PEELLE NORTH AMERICA DIRECTOR OF SALES
The Peelle Co., headquartered in Brampton, Ontario, Canada, has announced that Matthew Yelland has been promoted from national sales manager to director of sales for North America. Yelland has been with Peelle for more than 10 years, rising from a regional sales manager position. Read more here
SEVERAL VT COMPANIES AMONG WORLD'S MOST SUSTAINABLE 2024
Several vertical-transportation (VT) companies are on the World's Most Sustainable Companies of 2024 list produced by TIME and data firm Statista. Switzerland-based Schindler, which ranked No. 123 on the list of 500, said when announcing the honor in June that it is proud of the achievement, but pointed out its score of 68.79 (out of 100) "shows the distance even the most dedicated companies have to go to be truly sustainable." Read more here
BUCHER HYDRAULICS CEO ROLE PASSING FROM WALLER TO MÜHLON
The CEO role at Bucher Hydraulics, the Klettgau-Griessen, Germany-headquartered provider of hydraulic components including elevator drive systems, is passing from Daniel Waller to Frank Mühlon, effective July 1. Waller is retiring after leading Bucher Hydraulics since 2004, transforming the division of Bucher Industries into a globally recognized player in the hydraulics market. Read more here | | | U.K., U.S. CONSULTANCIES JOIN FORCES TO EXPAND FOOTPRINT
D2E International VT Consultants Ltd, based in London, and Connecticut-based My Elevator Service have agreed to partner to better meet the needs of their global clients and expand their geographical footprint. In announcing the alliance on June 25, the companies observed that "leading property developers and management companies are becoming increasingly global, and the need for experienced elevator consulting services is growing." Read more here
VT CONSULTANCY VDA ANNOUNCES STRATEGIC RESTRUCTURING
Gavin Campbell, CEO of East Hanover, NJ-headquartered vertical-transportation consulting and inspection provider VDA, Inc., has announced a strategic restructuring to support its strategy as it continues to grow. VDA has scaled its business "to the point where we need to concentrate our strategies within three business units (verticals) to accelerate our growth going forward," Campbell said. The three new business units and their leaders are: Inspection Services (including certificate management), Theresa Tsamoutalis; Existing Installation Consulting (modernization, maintenance management and equipment evaluation services, including CARETM), Bobby Kemple; and Design Services (new equipment design), Michael Muñoz. "Each new business unit leader will work alongside our sales and operational leadership to ensure the long-term success of VDA," Campbell added. VDA has more than 35 offices across the U.S. | | Maven Group, LLC is the premier choice for owners of independent elevator companies who consider selling their business. We understand the daily challenges of independent companies and we know what buyers are looking for. To maximize your return, we provide hands-on help when you prepare for the complex mergers & acquisitions process. For confidential advice, please contact Dominik Sachsenheimer at dominik@mavenelevator.com / 561-225-3320 or Bill Beaury at bill@mavenelevator.com / 239-253-4500; www.mavenelevator.com Advertisement | | | EFESME MEMBERS TAP LEADERS, DISCUSS FUTURE IN BRUSSELS
Members of the European Federation for Elevator Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (EFESME) elected leaders and discussed the future of the Federation during its Board of Directors meeting and General Assembly in Brussels, Belgium, on June 25. Massimo Bezzi of Italy was re-elected president, and Damyan Petrov of Bulgaria was elected vice president (VP). Read more here
KONE INSTALLS 56 ESCALATORS AT MAJOR NEW PARIS METRO STATION
KONE announced it provided 56 escalators as part of the vertical-transportation system at the new Saint-Denis-Pleyel station in Paris. The station is part of the Grand Paris Express, a major infrastructure project that expands the French capital's metro network. The future terminus of line 14, the Saint-Denis-Pleyel station opened this month just ahead of the Olympic Games Paris 2024. Read more here
26 OTIS VT UNITS FOR REDEVELOPED LONDON OFFICE TOWER
Otis announced in June it installed 26 vertical-transportation (VT) units — 15 Gen2® lifts, seven platform lifts and four LinkTM escalators at One Exchange Square, a redeveloped, 13-story, 1990s office building on the Broadgate Campus in London. The elevators will feature Internet of Things connectivity with Otis ONETM, along with the Compass® 360 destination-dispatch system and the EMS PanoramaTM 2.0. elevator-management system. Read more here | | Draka EHC, a brand of Prysmian, is a global manufacturer and supplier dedicated to sustainability and developing innovative solutions for the vertical transportation industry. Our diverse portfolio of high-quality elevator products includes travelling cable, compensation cable, hoistway cable, wire rope, coated steel rope, rope brakes, wireway, harnessing, and lubricants. For escalators and moving walks we offer essential handrail solutions, field splicing services, skirt brushes, rollers, replacement parts and more. Elevator & Escalator Solutions Catalog | DrakaEHC.com Advertisement | | | | SUBMIT YOUR PROJECT FOR THE EW PROJECT OF THE YEAR AWARDS
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. | | Mongrain Vertical Transport current products include the complete range of hydraulic elevators as well as the Emarelle hydraulic machine-room-less elevator system. Each is custom tailored to meet demanding design and performance standards as specified by building owners, architects, and installers. For more information, please email us at info@mvtinc.com or visit us online at www.mvtinc.com. Advertisement | | | | FUJITEC DELIVERS 44 MODERNIZED ELEVATORS, INCLUDING ITS FASTEST, IN HONG KONG
Fujitec (Hong Kong) Co., Ltd. announced on June 27 it delivered 44 modernized elevators — including 16 that are the fastest available from Fujitec — at Three Garden Road, consisting of two 50- and 40-story office towers built in Hong Kong in 1992. The delivery marks the largest number of units delivered by Fujitec for an office modernization. Read more here
LIANG APPROVED AS FCIBSE MEMBER
Hongliang Liang of London-based global vertical-transportation (VT) consultancy Aliang Lift Design Studio Ltd. announced his application for Fellow membership to the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE) has been approved by CIBSE's Members and Registration Panel. Read more here
KONE EXPANDS WESTERN INDIA FOOTPRINT WITH NEW OFFICE
KONE has expanded its footprint in the western Indian state of Maharashtra with the opening of a new office in the Seasons Business Centre in Kalyan, Construction Week is among outlets to report. Strategically chosen with customer-centricity in mind, the office offers sales, installation, service and modernization to respond to customer demand. Read more here | | | KNOWSLEY LIFT SERVICES CELEBRATES COMPLETION OF WALES JOB
Liverpool, U.K.-headquartered Knowsley Lift Services Ltd. recently celebrated the successful completion of a project that involved installing a new, 650-kg, five-floor lift manufactured by CTV Lifts of Málaga, Spain, for an emergency-services client in Wales. Read more here
SCHINDLER ENTERS AGREEMENT TO SOURCE, ASSEMBLE AND INSTALL ELEVATORS IN EGYPT
Schindler has partnered with the Arab Organization for Industrialization (AOI) and the Talaat Moustafa Group (TMG) to establish a localization program that will source, assemble and commission selected elevator components for various regional development projects of the Ministry of Housing in Egypt. AOI and TMG will establish a facility where Schindler will assemble and commission the elevators. Read more here
TfL MULLING VT UPGRADES AT EAST LONDON RAIL STATION
Transport for London (TfL) is considering vertical-transportation (VT) upgrades and more at the Pontoon Dock Docklands Light Railway station in East London, Ian Visits reports. TfL filed an application with Newham Council asking permission to undertake the upgrades, which would include retaining the bulk of the station and adding six escalators from the ground to the platform level. Read more here | | Hilliard offers its customers two styles of spring applied electric released brakes that can be easily fitted to "A" frame elevator drives. These brakes are designed to apply when unintended travel of the car occurs. Hilliard offers a friction disc plate-style brake that attaches to the drive shaft of the pulley and a caliper-style that acts on a ring attached to the pulley. These brakes are an alternative to a rope gripper when performing a modernization job which requires lifting or moving a drive or extra construction to the elevator. Hilliard offers certain models of these two styles of brakes that meet CSA approval. For more information, visit www.hilliardcorp.com Advertisement | | | | ESCALATORS AND LIFTS BEING INSTALLED AT FOBS IN DELHI, INDIA
After a survey by India's Delhi Government revealed that people were not using foot overbridges (FOBs) due to the time and fatigue involved, it is now in various stages of installing escalators and elevators at FOBs at key locations in the city, Delhi Breakings reports. Read more here
VIDEO SHOWS ESCALATOR STEPS COMING APART AT KUALA LUMPUR MALL
A video posted online on June 28 shows the upper steps of an escalator at a shopping mall in Kuala Lumpur coming apart as riders run down the unit, The Straits Times is among outlets to report. No one was injured, according to the poster, who said a loud noise preceded the steps crumbling. Read more here | | Interested in a gearless traction machine with a laser-focus on safety and longevity? Hollister-Whitney products are designed with the customer in mind. That means superior value and painless serviceability for decades of operation. The GL171X is a cost-effective, gearless solution designed to fit through 27-inch doors. Learn more about its powerful, energy–efficient performance. Advertisement | | | | WILDECK PROVIDES MEDIA PLATFORMS FOR RNC
Wildeck, Inc., a material handling equipment manufacturer, will design and manufacture structural steel platforms (mezzanines) for the upcoming 2024 Republican National Convention (RNC) on July 15-18 at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. In partnership with Morrison Company, a systems integrator in the material handling and storage industry, Wildeck has delivered two custom-designed platforms to support the media suites and additional smaller platforms for TV camera equipment. The media suite platforms, 975 ft2 and 1,450 ft2 in size, were designed to fit within the shape of the arena bowl, while the camera platforms were engineered with high rigidity to ensure stable televised coverage. Morrison Company and Wildeck has a history of similar projects, including the 2016 Republican National Convention in Cleveland. Wildeck's platforms for the event were manufactured using U.S. steel, and local union labor was employed for the installation. | | | ADA-COMPLIANT ELEVATORS COME TO TWO MORE LIRR STATIONS
The NYC Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) announced on June 28 it has made the Long Island Rail Road's (LIRR) Amityville and Lindenhurst stations accessible to all in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Crews have completed building, testing and activating elevators connecting from the street to both stations, which are elevated some 200 ft above street level. MTA tells ELEVATOR WORLD the elevator provider for both stations was Bohemia, NY-headquartered Citnalta-Scalamandre, J.V. (CSJV), which announced in 2022 it had received a notice to proceed by LIRR and MTA Construction & Development on design/build services for ADA upgrades at nine stations, including Amityville and Lindenhurst. CSJV is working with Freeport, NY-based Peter Scalamandre & Sons, Inc., on the upgrades. The MTA has made three stations on the Babylon Branch fully ADA accessible since May, when it completed similar upgrades at Copiague.
FATALITY REGISTERED IN INDIA APARTMENT BUILDING
A 68-year-old man died after he accidentally slipped and fell into an elevator pit in Hyderabad, India, on July 2, The Siasat Daily reports. According to reports, it is suspected that the victim unintentionally opened the door to the lift shaft without realizing that the lift had not arrived, resulting in a fall. Subsequently, the lift descended and landed on him, causing his death. The victim was a resident of Bodupppal and was visiting a relative's house to attend a memorial service in the apartment complex where the incident occurred. A case was registered, and further investigation is ongoing. | | EW's fourth annual Product of the Year Award recognizes the outstanding achievements of manufacturers whose products are considered particularly noteworthy or innovative. If you have a new (or significantly redesigned) product released on the market between March 2023 – July 2024, submit it for consideration at https://elevatorworld.com/contests/product-of-the-year/ Advertisement | | | EDITORIAL AND SUBSCRIPTIONS: Editorial submissions, reprint permission requests and subscription/removal requests should be sent to editorial@elevatorworld.com. ELENET Editorial staff: Angela C. Baldwin, Kaija Wilkinson, Lindsay Fletcher and Kathleen Farrell. ADVERTISEMENTS: To advertise and reach ELENET's readership of 35,000+, contact the Advertising staff at phone: 251-479-4514 or e-mail: advertising@elevatorworld.com. Download the ELEVATOR WORLD magazine Editorial Calendar to see EW's upcoming feature stories, focus topics, special topics, special sections and Editorial/Advertising submission deadlines here. ELENET is a registered trademark, and all rights are reserved. Copyright 2024 © Elevator World, Inc., 354 Morgan Avenue, Mobile, AL 36606, phone: 251-479-4514, www.elevatorworld.com. | | | | |
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