| | ELEVATOR WORLD Europe's March-April 2025 Issue | Features: Redefining Urban Living in a Repurposed Space; Standardization in the Elevator Industry… Focus on Doors and Door Operators: Modeling Failure Detection of Lift Doors Through Sensor Fusion; General-Purpose Door Drive… Columns: A Rich German Legacy; Sharp Drop Ahead for Russian Elevator Manufacturers; CTBUH 2025 Trends & Forecasts | Visit our website to read the March-April 2025 Issue, latest news, events, and magazine archives!
| | | EW EUROPE TO FOCUS ON DIGITALIZATION | | | The May-June 2025 issue of ELEVATOR WORLD Europe will focus on Digitalization (AI, automation, simulation, BIM, digital twin and more) with bonus distribution at LIFTEX 2025 and Elevcon 2025. Submissions will be accepted through April 30. The Advertising deadline is May 24. 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. | | | 13TH ANNUAL PHOTO CONTEST OPEN, NOW ACCEPTING VIDEOS | | | Submissions are open for ELEVATOR WORLD's 2025 Photo Contest until May 30. This year's contest offers video submissions, which can be submitted for any category. Video links can be shared from any of the following platforms: YouTube, Vimeo, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, Twitch, Wistia, Vidyard, BitChute and Mixcloud. This year's 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, Inclined Lifts and Illustrations. The nomination period will be followed by public voting, and winners will be featured in our August 2025 issue. Send us your best shots, and you could win one of many great prizes and be published in EW! We look forward to viewing the elevator world through your unique lens. Please email with any questions. | | | HENNING WELCOMES MARKOWSKI AS GLOBAL SALES DIRECTOR | | | Germany-headquartered Henning GmbH & Co. welcomed Gero Markowski as its new global sales director earlier in March. Markowski's experience includes serving as executive director of sales and marketing for steel wire rope manufacturer Gustav Wolf GmbH; global business development director for Power Climber, a division of SafeWorks; and key account manager for TK Elevator in the Essen, Germany, area. Read more here | | | SCHINDLER: LOCAL SOURCING MEANS NO U.S. STEEL TARIFF HIT | | | Paolo Compagna, CEO of Switzerland-based Schindler, told Reuters in February that most of what the company manufactures at its plants in North Carolina and Pennsylvania uses materials that are sourced and produced domestically. That means there will be no impact from steel tariffs in the U.S. for Schindler's U.S. plants. Schindler projects revenue from its North American modernization business to grow by 5% to 10% this year, with global revenue projected to grow in the low single digits as construction activity remains slow. Read more here | | | KONE TO PROVIDE ESCALATORS FOR PARIS METRO EXTENSION | | | KONE announced on April 3 it won an order to provide at least 84 escalators for five suburban stations on line 15 West of the Grand Paris Express Metro network. Driven by Société des grands projects, line 15 will span 14 municipalities, forming a ring around Paris. KONE will equip the six-story La Défense Station — situated in Europe's largest business district and accommodating up to 160,000 daily riders — with 40 escalators. Read more here | | | OTIS SECURES 29-UNIT MODERNIZATION CONTRACT IN SWEDEN | | | Otis has secured a contract to modernize 29 escalators for A-Train AB, the operator of the Arlanda Express, which connects the Stockholm, Sweden, city center to Arlanda Airport. The project, starting in September 2025, will upgrade the 30-year-old escalators, which were originally installed by Otis in the 1990s. Read more here | | | SCHINDLER X8 UNVEILED AT MILAN DESIGN WEEK 2025 | Schindler unveiled the Schindler X8 at Milan Design Week 2025, held on April 7-13 at Rho Fiera Milano in Milan, Italy. Offering unparalleled flexibility, it allows designers and architects to rethink layout, aesthetics and the user experience. With six options offering a range of stylish looks, new Schindler X8 allows the elevator to adapt to the project, removing the need for a structural shaft made out of concrete. Read more here | | | WITTUR GROUP WELCOMES SCHÜRHOLZ AS CFO | | | Wittur Group, with global headquarters in Germany, recently welcomed Markus Schürholz as its new chief financial officer (CFO). Schürholz has more than 30 years' experience in various finance departments at companies including Haniel Group, Douglas, Escada and the SAG Group. Most recently, he served as CFO for CABB Group. Read more here | | | ORONA REALIZES SIGNIFICANT GROWTH AMID CHALLENGES | Hernani, Spain-headquartered Orona, Europe's fifth-largest vertical-transportation (VT) provider now covering 13 countries, announced on April 11 it realized significant growth in earnings in a challenging 2024 environment. EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes and depreciation and amortization) reached EUR168 million (US$190.1 million), surpassing previous years. To maintain its prominent position in the VT sector, Orona continues to invest in new technologies and R&D, allocating EUR18 million (US$20.3 million) in 2024 toward those efforts. "Faced with an increasingly volatile and complex global context, the cooperative remains steadfast in its commitment to continuing to shape a robust and competitive business partnership in Europe" to address future challenges, Orona stated. Key to its continued success is the company's (and its employees) commitment to competitiveness, innovation, sustainability and digital transformation. | | | OTIS AND MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC RECOGNIZED BY CLARIVATE AS TOP 100 GLOBAL INNOVATORS | | | Otis has been recognized by Clarivate, a leading global provider of transformative intelligence, as one of the Top 100 Global Innovators for 2025. The list consults global patent data to measure the influence, success and rarity of ideas of each company. This marks three consecutive years that Otis has made the list. Mitsubishi Electric also made the 2025 list for its 13th win. Read more here | | | ZIEHL-ABEGG REPORTS BRIGHT OUTLOOK FOR 2025 | Ziehl-Abegg reported revenues of €893 million (US$966 million) for 2024, a drop of roughly 7% compared to the previous year. The downturn was particularly pronounced in Germany, where revenues declined by more than 20%. Other European markets also fell short of expectations. In contrast, business in North and South America saw strong growth, and Asia posted a modest increase. Additionally, there were no layoffs; reduced capacity was managed through temporary staffing and short-time work. Read more here | | | GERMANY EVENT TO MARK MAGAZINE'S 50TH YEAR WITH FORUM AND NETWORKING | The trade magazine liftreport will celebrate its 50th anniversary during the liftdialog innovation forum on May 20-21 in Dortmund in the heart of Germany's Ruhr region. On the first day, participants are set to enjoy dinner, networking and a stunning view of the city during a meet-and-greet at one of Dortmund's most famous landmarks: the Brauturm in the Dortmunder U. The next day will feature the liftdialog forum at the Goldsaal of the Westfalenhallen Dortmund Congress Center. Read more here | | | SCHINDLER R.I.S.E USED ON FIRST-EVER U.K. PROJECT | For the first time, one of the five Schindler Robotic Installation System for Elevators (R.I.S.E) construction robots is being deployed on a U.K. project – the all-electric 105 Victoria Street development in central London, The Construction Index reports. Schindler R.I.S.E is a self-climbing robot that is designed to maneuver itself within a building's lift shaft to install elevator components. Read more here | | | EFESME PARIS ROUNDTABLE CELEBRATES 20TH ANNIVERSARY | The European Federation for Elevator Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (EFESME) will hold a roundtable in conjunction with French national member Association Nationale des PME de I'Ascenseur (ANPA) on April 4 in Paris, part of a series of events to celebrate its 20th anniversary in 2025. The roundtable gave attendees the chance to meet and talk with members of the French lift sector, its small and medium-sized enterprises and its workers, as well as entities involved with the sector. Read more here | | | ELEVATOR INCIDENT IN MUNICH LEAVES WOMAN INJURED | An 82-year-old woman in Munich, Germany, recently sustained serious injuries after becoming trapped in an elevator, The Munich Eye reports. Reports indicate that the woman fell while attempting to enter the lift, and the elevator ascended before she could regain her footing, causing her legs to be stuck between the cabin and the shaft. Read more here | | | REGIONAL WINNERS OF OTIS' MADE TO MOVE COMMUNITIES™ CHALLENGE ANNOUNCED | Otis announced the four student teams that are the regional winners of its fifth year of the Made to Move Communities™ student challenge, each earning their school a US$20,000 grant. The annual STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) competition consisted of more than 250 students from 28 schools who, with the guidance of Otis volunteer mentors, designed and proposed innovative ways for AI to improve inclusive urban mobility in their communities. 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 Sophie Goodwin. The ELEVATOR WORLD Media Kit can be downloaded here. EWEU News is a registered trademark, and all rights are reserved. Copyright 2025 © Elevator World, Inc. | | | |
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