Pultruded carbon fiber KONE UltraRope installed in an elevator shaft. Elevators are one of those everyday machines that are uncommonly easy to take for granted, but whose function depends on a myriad ...

The Ann Arbor Fire Department performs an average of 85 elevator rescues every year, but a recent rescue was different. Firefighters rappelled 30 feet down an elevator shaft at C.S. Mott Children’s ...

Weight reduction has been the key aim of the nine-year development of the patented KONE UltraRope system, says Johannes de Jong, the company's head of technology for major projects. As buildings get ...

CHICAGO -- It took nearly three hours to rescue six people stuck in an elevator in Chicago's fourth-tallest skyscraper -- the 875 North Michigan Avenue building, formerly called the John Hancock ...

ANN ARBOR, MI - A hospital employee was rescued from an elevator early Sunday morning after being trapped for nearly seven hours. A man became trapped around 4:30 a.m., Sept. 28 after an elevator in C ...

These days elevators can carry you up 500 meters (that's nearly a third of a mile) in one go. But the sheer weight of the steel cable that hoists them prevents elevators from going any higher in a ...

Apparently, Star Trek had it right. Those familiar with the seminal sci-fi series will find the thyssenkrupp MULTI system eerily familiar. Like the ubiquitous turbolifts of the interstellar television ...

CHICAGO -- It took nearly three hours to rescue six people stuck in an elevator in Chicago's fourth-tallest skyscraper -- the 875 North Michigan Avenue building, formerly called the John Hancock ...

Passengers in a malfunctioning elevator were left shaken after plunging more than 80 floors in a 100-story Chicago building, eventually becoming suspended near the 11 th floor and requiring an ...

TOKYO -- Tokyo Rope Mfg. plans to double its production capacity for high-quality elevator cables in Vietnam to meet demand in the rapidly urbanizing markets of China and Southeast Asia. The Japanese ...

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