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I am starting a series of publications about the elevator industry in China. Here are some current facts about the Chinese elevator industry:There are currently 310,000 elevators in operation in Beijing.There are about 11,000,000 elevators in total installed in China.There are over 300 elevator factories in China.There are over 20,000 elevator maintenance and installation companies…

I was pleasantly surprised when I came across the Elevator Mechanics Memorial while researching the elevator industry in the United States and Canada. I have never seen anything like it in any country.To commemorate the lives of elevator mechanics who lost their lives on the job, the International Union of Elevator Constructors (IUEC) created the…

Almost every country has an elevator association. But I have only come across a union of elevator industry workers in the United States. The International Union of Elevator Constructors Хэштег#IUEC (www.iuec.org) has been successfully operating in North America for over a hundred years. Since the end of the 19th century, there have been separate unions…

Absolutely all the countries that I have studied have a shortage of electricians and usually everyone tries to solve this problem through training. I believe that a comprehensive approach is needed here. South Korea and Singapore solve the personnel problem best. Now I would like to tell you about Singapore’s experience.In Singapore, as in the…

After Finland, I wrote an article about the elevator industry in Japan. I was amazed that the Japanese keep detailed statistics on installed elevators: number of floors, type of drive, age of the elevator. I found all this information in the public domain.The elevator industry in Japan is an oligopolistic market with several leading companies.…

In 2020, due to the pandemic, I quit my job at the elevator company where I had worked for 15 years. Once at home, from the first day I started writing articles about the elevator industries of countries of the world for the domestic elevator magazine “Liftinform”. I called my articles “Elevatoring Journey to…” The…

Since 2005, I have worked for an elevator company, spoken at conferences and promoted innovative IT solutions for managing the city’s elevator fleet. Since 2020, I have been writing articles in the LiftInform magazine about the elevator industries of various countries (circulation 3,000 copies). I am interested in everything: the first elevators, legislation, installation, production,…