GERMANY’S UVIS SEEING UPTICK IN BUSINESS DUE TO CORONAVIRUS

     UVIS UV-Innovative Solutions GmbH, headquartered in Cologne, Germany, tells ELEVATOR WORLD it is seeing an uptick in business as public-transit systems, shopping malls and others focus on sanitizing public areas, including escalator handrails and elevator cabs, in light of the coronavirus pandemic. “We are very busy and receiving requests from all over the world,” says Katharina Obladen, who runs the company with business partner Tanja Nickel. Originally marketed only to public-transit systems, UVIS’s ESCALITE ultraviolet disinfection modules are now installed in shopping malls, and the company unveiled an antimicrobial coating for elevators at Interlift 2019. Among coronavirus-related ultraviolet-light disinfection developments are a public-transit firm in Shanghai implementing such a system for elevator cabs and buses and a mall in the U.A.E. installing one on its escalator handrails.