Welcome to the Elevator World News Podcast. Today’s podcast news podcast is sponsored by elevatorbooks.com: www.elevatorbooks.com KONE SUPPLYING 103 VT UNITS FOR CHONGQING METRO KONE will supply 103 vertical-transportation (VT) units for the second phase of Metro Line 6 in Chongqing, China, the company announced on August 18. The OEM will equip the line's stations with 83 of its TransitMaster™ escalators, and 16 MonoSpace® and four MiniSpace™ elevators. Additionally, the contract includes two ye...
Aug 18, 2020•5 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to the Elevator World News Podcast. Today’s podcast news podcast is sponsored by elevatorbooks.com: www.elevatorbooks.com THYSSENKRUPP ELEVATOR PARTNERS WITH GEORGIA TECH BAC On August 17, thyssenkrupp Elevator announced it has partnered with the Business Analytics Center (BAC) at the Georgia Institute of Technology's Scheller College of Business in Atlanta to "apply business analytics tools and techniques through research, collaboration and innovation to help drive thought leadership. ....
Aug 17, 2020•6 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to the Elevator World News Podcast. Today’s podcast news podcast is sponsored by elevatorbooks.com: www.elevatorbooks.com ARCLINE INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT INVESTS IN D&D ELEVATOR Arcline Investment Management, a private-equity firm with offices in San Francisco and NYC, announced on August 14 it has invested in D&D Elevator, headquartered in Yonkers, New York. The announcement comes of the heels of Arcline’s acquisition of Jersey Elevator. Founded in 1981, D&D is a provider of elevator main...
Aug 14, 2020•6 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to the Elevator World News Podcast. Today’s podcast news podcast is sponsored by elevatorbooks.com: www.elevatorbooks.com THYSSENKRUPP MOBILITY EQUIPMENT FOR BRAZIL AIRPORTS thyssenkrupp Elevator is providing elevators, escalators, moving walks and passenger boarding bridges (PBBs) — including 131 new units and PBBs — to Brazil's five largest airports. The most recent installations include 11 elevators, nine escalators, eight PBBs and two iWalks at Salvador International Airport in Bahia...
Aug 13, 2020•5 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to the Elevator World News Podcast. Today’s podcast news podcast is sponsored by elevatorbooks.com: www.elevatorbooks.com SOME OF LONDON TUBE’S OLDEST ESCALATORS BEING REPLACED A trio of new escalators to replace some of the oldest serving the London Tube are coming to the Marylebone Station in West London, MyLondon reports. Transport for London has already started on the three-year project, which includes a new escalator to replace a staircase and replacement of two existing escalators....
Aug 12, 2020•6 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to the Elevator World News Podcast. Today’s podcast news podcast is sponsored by elevatorbooks.com: www.elevatorbooks.com 70-PLUS KONE ELEVATORS FOR GRAND PARIS EXPRESS METRO KONE has been selected by Société du Grand Paris (SGP) to provide more than 70 elevators to Line 15 of the Grand Paris Express metro. The 33-km line will pass through 22 municipalities and serve more than 1 million residents as it makes 300,000 trips per day. Working with SGP, KONE will deliver and install a mix of ...
Aug 11, 2020•6 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to the Elevator World News Podcast. Today’s podcast news podcast is sponsored by elevatorbooks.com: www.elevatorbooks.com OSHA RESCHEDULES SAFETY STAND-DOWN OSHA has announced that its seventh-annual National Stand-Down to Prevent Falls in Construction has been rescheduled for September 14-18, following postponement earlier this year due to the coronavirus pandemic. The administration is partnering with other safety organizations to encourage employers to provide safety demonstrations on...
Aug 10, 2020•6 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to the Elevator World News Podcast. Today’s podcast news podcast is sponsored by elevatorbooks.com: www.elevatorbooks.com THYSSENKRUPP'S POWERS WINS WOMEN IN TECHNOLOGY AWARD Alison Powers, head of thyssenkrupp Elevator's Innovation and Qualification Center and Test & Qualification, NA, was awarded the Connected World Women of Technology Award during a virtual ceremony on August 6, the company announced. In recognizing Powers, a panel of past winners noted her involvement with technology...
Aug 07, 2020•6 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to the Elevator World News Podcast. Today’s podcast news podcast is sponsored by elevatorbooks.com: www.elevatorbooks.com WITTUR OPENING GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY CENTRE IN ITALY Wittur will soon open its Global Technology Centre (GTC) in Bergamo, Italy, the company announced on August 6. Focusing on the Sematic brand, the center will house global teams from application engineering, product development, R&D and special projects. Incorporating university partnerships, the GTC will be a place wher...
Aug 06, 2020•7 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to the Elevator World News Podcast. Today’s podcast news podcast is sponsored by elevatorbooks.com: www.elevatorbooks.com FUNDS OK'D FOR ESCALATOR WORK AT CLEVELAND STADIUM Cuyahoga County, Ohio, has agreed to repay the Cleveland Indians for millions of dollars' worth of improvements to Progressive Field, the home stadium for the Major League Baseball team, Ideastream reported on August 4. The US$3.5 million in upgrades included several projects, but the lion's share — more than US$2.2 m...
Aug 05, 2020•7 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to the Elevator World News Podcast. Today’s podcast news podcast is sponsored by elevatorbooks.com: www.elevatorbooks.com NEII NEWS: REVISED GUIDE AND A TRANSITION The National Elevator Industry, Inc. (NEII) recently announced its Elevator & Escalator Industry Cybersecurity Best Practices guide has been revised and that its Director of Government Affairs Dylan Isenberg is leaving this month to attend Temple University Beasley School of Law. With NEII for more than three years, Isenberg i...
Aug 04, 2020•6 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to the Elevator World News Podcast. Today’s podcast news podcast is sponsored by elevatorbooks.com: www.elevatorbooks.com MANCHESTER APPROVES PLAN FOR TWO 52-STORY TOWERS City officials in Manchester, U.K., have approved plans by architect SimpsonHaugh for a mixed-use project of two high-rise residential towers joined by a podium with ground-floor retail units, Architects' Journal reported on August 3. The towers, standing 52 stories each, are named Blade and Cylinder and will hold 855 a...
Aug 03, 2020•5 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to the Elevator World News Podcast. Today’s podcast news podcast is sponsored by elevatorbooks.com: www.elevatorbooks.com ACQUISITION COMPLETE; THYSSENKRUPP ELEVATOR INDEPENDENT The acquisition of thyssenkrupp Elevator by private-equity firms Advent International and Cinven is complete, with all relevant regulatory authorities approving the transaction, thyssenkrupp Elevator announced on July 31. "The successful closing marks a new chapter in our history," CEO Peter Walker said. Advent a...
Jul 31, 2020•8 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to the Elevator World News Podcast. Today’s podcast news podcast is sponsored by elevatorbooks.com: www.elevatorbooks.com OTIS CHINA OPENS NEW ESCALATOR FACTORY IN SHANGHAI Otis China recently announced the official opening of its new escalator factory in Shanghai, a facility with intelligent manufacturing and advanced automation that meets Industry 4.0 standards. The factory, relocated from South China to its new home in East China, meets Otis' global quality standards, the company said...
Jul 30, 2020•5 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to the Elevator World News Podcast. Today’s podcast news podcast is sponsored by elevatorbooks.com: www.elevatorbooks.com KONE TO SUPPLY JINAN METRO LINE R2 WITH 107 ESCALATORS KONE will deliver 107 escalators to the first phase of the Metro Line R2 in Jinan, China, the company announced on July 28. Jinan, the capital of eastern China's Shandong province, has traditionally been a major bus transportation hub, but the city opened its first metro line in 2019. Metro Line R2 will total 36.4...
Jul 29, 2020•6 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to the Elevator World News Podcast. Today’s podcast news podcast is sponsored by elevatorbooks.com: www.elevatorbooks.com ELEVATOR INDUSTRY COVID-19 SURVEY RESULTS ANALYSIS Elevator World, Inc.; the German elevator association VFA Interlift e.V. and fair organizer AFAG, in association with Credit Suisse, recently shared results of a survey of elevator industry representatives on the current industry status and anticipated effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on business. Credit Suisse Managi...
Jul 28, 2020•7 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to the Elevator World News Podcast. Today’s podcast news podcast is sponsored by elevatorbooks.com: www.elevatorbooks.com “TREMENDOUS ADDITION” TO NYC SKYLINE HITS MILESTONE Construction on One Vanderbilt, a 77-story supertall office tower described as a "tremendous addition to the Midtown skyline” in NYC, hit a milestone earlier this month when its 100-ft-tall architectural spire was replaced, New York YIMBY reports. The spire was initially erected in September 2019 for the topping-out ...
Jul 27, 2020•5 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to the Elevator World News Podcast. Today’s podcast news podcast is sponsored by elevatorbooks.com: www.elevatorbooks.com “EXTREMELY COMPLEX BUILD” IS A WRAP IN MELBOURNE CBD A project comprising a 38-story, 43,000-m2 office tower and a 255-room hotel that contractor Multiplex described as "an extremely complex build" is complete in the Melbourne, Australia, CBD, The Urban Developer reports. Boasting a Schindler vertical-transportation system, 80 Collins Street is owned by Australian pro...
Jul 24, 2020•5 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to the Elevator World News Podcast. Today’s podcast news podcast is sponsored by elevatorbooks.com: www.elevatorbooks.com IN MEMORIAM: DAVID “BURT” SPAETHE David "Burt" Spaethe of Richmond, Indiana, a longtime elevator man who remained involved in the industry throughout his life, passed away unexpectedly on July 20 at age 89. A U.S. Air Force veteran, Spaethe retired from Elevator Equipment Corp. (EECO) of Richmond in 2008 after a more-than-50-year career. In 1995, he moved to Richmond,...
Jul 23, 2020•7 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to the Elevator World News Podcast. Today’s podcast news podcast is sponsored by elevatorbooks.com: www.elevatorbooks.com PRYSMIAN GROUP TO ACQUIRE EHC GLOBAL Prysmian Group announced on July 22 it will acquire 100% of EHC Global, "a complementary add-on to Prysmian's Draka Elevator business." Draka offers more than 7,000 components for the vertical-transportation (VT) industry and generated more than EUR250 million (US$289.3 million) in revenue in 2019. Draka products can be found in ic...
Jul 22, 2020•8 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to the Elevator World News Podcast. Today’s podcast news podcast is sponsored by elevatorbooks.com: www.elevatorbooks.com 96 THYSSENKRUPP UNITS FOR INDIA’S LARGEST CONVENTION CENTER Fifty-three elevators, 39 escalators and four moving walks will be provided by thyssenkrupp Elevator India to the India International Convention & Expo Centre (IICC), to be the country's largest convention and exhibition space upon its completion in mid-2021, India Education Diary reports. IICC is being devel...
Jul 21, 2020•6 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to the Elevator World News Podcast. Today’s podcast news podcast is sponsored by elevatorbooks.com: www.elevatorbooks.com SCS ELEVATOR PRODUCTS, RAILEYES PARTNER Red Wing, Minnesota-based SCS Elevator Products, Inc. has partnered with RailEyes to use its TouchPointTM antimicrobial product to coat elevator buttons and other high-touch surfaces. The thin, heavy-duty antimicrobial urethane film is infused with silver nanoparticles, which have been proven to combat microbes. The film can als...
Jul 20, 2020•5 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to the Elevator World News Podcast. Today’s podcast news podcast is sponsored by elevatorbooks.com: www.elevatorbooks.com GERMANY’S MAYR FOCUSED ON SUSTAINABILITY Mayr GmbH + Co. KG, headquartered in Mauerstetten, Germany, recently described its efforts toward climate neutrality and sustainability. Manufacturing safety brakes, torque limiters and shaft couplings for elevators and other systems, the company achieved climate neutrality this year, thanks to measures like generating its own ...
Jul 17, 2020•6 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to the Elevator World News Podcast. Today’s podcast news podcast is sponsored by elevatorbooks.com: www.elevatorbooks.com HYUNDAI ELEVATOR’S DOMESTIC BUSINESS STRONG IN 2020 South Korea's Hyundai Elevator reported strong new and modernization business across the country in the first half of 2020, citing a "strong will to stand up to challenges" of the COVID-19 pandemic. In its summer 2020 newsletter, Hyundai Elevator shared details of major contracts, including Lotte Castle, which will i...
Jul 16, 2020•6 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to the Elevator World News Podcast. Today’s podcast news podcast is sponsored by elevatorbooks.com: www.elevatorbooks.com EHC GLOBAL CUSTOM HANDRAILS FOR SLOVAKIA, MEXICO RETAILERS EHC Global recently installed custom NT ColourRailTM escalator handrails at malls in Bratislava, Slovakia, and Mexico City. In Bratislava, brown handrails were installed on units at the five-story Aupark Shopping Mall and Entertainment Centre, which opened in 2001 and underwent expansion in 2015. Receiving mor...
Jul 15, 2020•6 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to the Elevator World News Podcast. Today’s podcast news podcast is sponsored by elevatorbooks.com: www.elevatorbooks.com SINGAPORE TOWERS TO BE WORLD'S TALLEST MODULAR BUILDINGS A two-tower residential project planned for a site on the western edge of Singapore's urban core will be notable as the world's tallest modular-constructed buildings, Architectural Digest reported on July 13. The 56-story towers, known as Avenue South Residences, will be built with a process called prefabricated...
Jul 14, 2020•6 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to the Elevator World News Podcast. Today’s podcast news podcast is sponsored by elevatorbooks.com: www.elevatorbooks.com COVID-19 CONCERNS FORCE DELAY OF CHICAGO CONDO TOWER Construction of a luxury residential tower in Chicago has been put on hold until at least the end of September after a lender for the project cut off funding, the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat reported on July 10. Codevelopers Time Equities, JK Equities and Oak Capitals have shut down the site of the 7...
Jul 13, 2020•6 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to the Elevator World News Podcast. Today’s podcast news podcast is sponsored by elevatorbooks.com: www.elevatorbooks.com INTERLIFT ORGANIZERS OPTIMISTIC ABOUT 2021 EVENT With approximately 160 registrations as of July, organizers of Interlift, planned on October 19-22, 2021, at Messe Augsburg in Augsburg, Germany, are optimistic about the upcoming iteration, stating, "After much uncertainty, the outlook for next year is positive." The international vertical-transportation tradeshow is s...
Jul 10, 2020•6 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to the Elevator World News Podcast. Today’s podcast news podcast is sponsored by elevatorbooks.com: www.elevatorbooks.com PLANT-WRAPPED TOWERS WITH GARDENS FOR BEVERLY HILLS Foster + Partners has conceived a plan for a 17.5-acre site between Wilshire and Santa Monica boulevards in Beverly Hills, California, that includes 32- and 28-story condominium towers wrapped in vegetation and botanical gardens with approximately 300 different species of trees and plants, The Architect's Newspaper r...
Jul 10, 2020•6 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to the Elevator World News Podcast. Today’s podcast news podcast is sponsored by elevatorbooks.com: www.elevatorbooks.com THYSSENKRUPP ACQUIRES WINNIPEG ELEVATOR, WINS CONTRACT thyssenkrupp Elevator Canada has acquired maintenance and modernization contractor Winnipeg Elevator Group (WEG), the company announced on July 7. With a portfolio of about 1,000 elevators, escalators, stairlifts and dumbwaiters, WEG has been serving the Winnipeg area for more than 50 years. thyssenkrupp said it w...
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