CORONAVIRUS INDUSTRY UPDATE

 ELEVATOR WORLD (EW) has been the vertical-transportation industry’s source for news and information for 67 years, and we aim to continue to be during the coronavirus pandemic affecting readers, advertisers, employees, contributors and associates around the world. With magazines in the U.S., India, the Middle East, Turkey, Europe and the U.K. and a strong online presence, EW has a wide reach. We will share your company news as often as it comes in, so please send it to us at email. Current updates include:

• KLEEMANN donated medical equipment to National Health Services, the U.K.’s publicly funded healthcare system.
• Javier Sesma, director of the thyssenkrupp Innovation Center in Asturias, Spain, explains in an interview in TPA Noticias Matinal that designs that favor social distance, sanitation and digitization are now taking off.
• Birmingham, U.K.-based consultancy SVM Associates recently shared its COVID-19 Reoccupation Strategy, including measures to control and manage high-risk areas such as lifts and escalators.
• The Daily Mail says limiting elevators to no more than three passengers per ride is among measures taken by InterContinental Hotels to keep guests safer.
• CityLab recently published an insightful piece titled “Elevators Changed Cities. Will Coronavirus Change Elevators?”