How fast can you go up? Mitsubishi Electric recently unveiled technologies for new high-speed elevators that will climb at a vertiginous rate of roughly 40 mph when they enter service in China. The ...

TOKYO, Jan 17, 2020 - (JCN Newswire) - - Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE: 6501) has announced that Hitachi Elevator (China) Co., Ltd., a manufacturing, sales and service company for the elevators and escalators of ...

The world is witnessing a massive boom in skyscraper construction, led by nations like China, Saudi Arabia, and the United States. This year alone, China built more skyscrapers than any country has ...

International elevator and industrial company thyssenkrupp has revealed plans for a new headquarters complex in Atlanta that include both tower space for over 900 employees and a testing tower for the ...

MOLINE -- One of the most spectacular views in the Quad-Cities is not open to the public. The conference room high up in the KONE Test Tower (used almost daily for company meetings) affords ...

COBB COUNTY, Ga. - The continent's largest elevator test tower is nearing completion in Cobb County, according to TK Elevator. The global elevator company is completing North American headquarters at ...

TK Elevator’s new, 216,292-sq-ft home for research, testing and training changed the skyline in Cobb County as its tallest building and the tallest test tower in the United States at more than 420 ...

The CN Tower says all safety protocols were followed after a woman was stuck in an elevator, around 147 storeys high, last week with her husband and other patrons for 40 minutes. Mona El-Mahdi was ...

A piece of Erie manufacturing history came down on Saturday as the tower was torn down at the Haysite Reinforced Plastics, LLC manufacturing site, 5599 Perry Highway in Millcreek Township. At about 11 ...

GeekWire Elevator Pitch Episode 3 features, from left, Alan Meekins of RosHub, Jinesh Varia of Industrility, and Robert Hamlet of Teal Communications, ready to pitch their ideas at Smith Tower in ...

Two weeks ago, I took the elevator in Washington Hall up to the 16th floor. Seconds after getting on, I was faced with my greatest fear: The elevator stopped working. Word had been spreading through ...

Residents at luxury high rise Astoria Tower in the South Loop are fed up, saying elevators are broken for months at a time, trash has been piling up and maintenance requests go unanswered.