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The beginning of the story EARLY BEGINNINGS Since the time man has occupied more than one floor of a building, he has given consideration to some form of vertical movement. The earliest forms were, of course, ladders, stairways, animal-powered hoists, and manually driven windlasses. Ancient Roman ruins show signs of shaftways where some guided movable
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Two construction workers are dead after falling down an elevator shaft in downtown St. Louis. The accident occurred inside the Old Shoe Company building in the 1500 block of Washington Avenue around 11:15 a.m. Monday. City of St. Louis Public Safety Director Jimmie Edwards told reporters at the scene the victims were cutting pipe when
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The Jiading Schindler City – our incredible new campus in China – has achieved the highest certification under the internationally recognized LEED environmental standard. “We are particularly proud to have received this outstanding certification”, says Thomas Oetterli, CEO of the Schindler Group. “It proves again that our motto “Thinking ahead. Acting today.” is a commitment
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Hyundai Elevator Breaks Ground For New Shanghai Plant South Korea’s Hyundai Elevator Co. has broken ground for a new plant in Shanghai that is expected to help the company expand its presence in China, with a significant ramp-up in its annual production capacity in the world’s largest elevator market. The Korean company said on Wednesday
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Thyssenkrupp opens high speed Test Tower as part of new plant in Zhongshan, China. The opening ceremony for the plant signifies thyssenkrupp’s continued investment in China and innovation and R&D around the world The test tower is one of the highest in the world at 248 meters and will test high-speed and rope-less elevators Today,
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KONE Corporation, press release, March 15, 2018 KONE Corporation, a global leader in the elevator and escalator industry, has won an order to provide energy-efficient KONE MonoSpace® 700 elevators for the Eglinton Crosstown Light Rail Transit (LRT) project owned and designed by Metrolinx and operated by the Toronto Transit Commission in Canada. Construction of
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Company, which pleaded guilty to four summonses, could have discovered safety issues with escalator three months before malfunction, court told. Otis Elevator Company (HK) was fined HK$320,000 (US$40,800) on Friday after it accepted responsibility for an escalator accident that injured 18 people in one of Hong Kong’s busiest shopping malls last year. Kowloon City Magistrates’
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Eight workers were killed after an elevator carrying them snapped and plunged 210 feet down during the ongoing tunneling work for the Bhima-Nira river linking project near village Akole at Bhigwan, about 115km from here, in Indapur taluka of Pune district around 6.30pm on Monday. The toll could go up, police said. A police officer said a probe was on
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Mother and toddler take a tumble down on an escalator and are soon followed by grandmother who also trips as she tries to help them A woman was following her mother up an escalator with her daughter on stroller She failed to secure the stroller and fell backwards on the moving stairs Her elderly mother
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Kone lift workers have won a 16% pay rise after a six-week campaign. About 200 Kone employees voted to accept in principle the much-improved company offer. The breakthrough came after ETU and AMWU members took five four-day and one six-day stoppages over six weeks. Workers will soon receive a 5% increase in pay backdated to
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