Looking to expand versatility in building designs, Essen, Germany-based ThyssenKrupp Elevator AG has announced Multi, a cable-less elevator system propelled by magnetic induction. Multi will allow ...

CHICAGO, Nov. 17, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- TIME magazine has named the MULTI elevator system by thyssenkrupp Elevator as one of its "25 Best Inventions of 2017." Unveiled on June 22, 2017, to the public ...

German tech company ThyssenKrupp envisions a future where self-propelled elevators can travel both horizontally and vertically along skyscrapers. Using linear motor technology similar to that seen in ...

Elevator design hasn't progressed very much during the past 160 years, and still comprises cabins which move vertically in a shaft supported by cables. This is inefficient and limiting, taking up a ...

German engineers have invented a cable-less elevator that can move horizontally as well as vertically by using magnetic levitation, or maglev, technology - meaning the elevator carriage will float in ...

All around the world elevators are a very common way of moving people up and down in taller buildings. Elevators are a convenience for many of us and a requirement for the handicapped to move around ...

German company Thyssenkrupp, is working on a new rope-free elevator system they call the MULTI, they say it will bring in a new era of mobility in buildings and building design. The original rope ...

Last week German conglomerate and elevator-maker ThyssenKrupp unveiled the 21st-century equivalent of Roald Dahl’s the Great Glass Elevator. MULTI doesn’t quite blast into space, but the cable-less ...

Elevator manufacturer ThyssenKrupp has unveiled its latest technological advance, a cable free, multi-car, multi-directional elevator that has the potential to revolutionize the size and shape of ...

Elevators and escalators get little fanfare in the commercial development space, but some new technology may make you sit up and pay attention. From cableless elevators that go every which way, to ...

In 2014, the German engineering company Thyssenkrupp introduced a truly futuristic innovation: an elevator that uses no cables, just magnetic levitation to cycle not one but many cars through a ...