Sentence examples for elevator industry from inspiring English sources

"The elevator industry could help save the world, but it hasn't tried hard enough".

Mr. Brennan has since left the elevator industry and the union, saying he feared for his safety.

After opening the doors, state officials concluded, he fell into a deadly trap that is well understood within the elevator industry.

The elevator industry likes to insist that, short of airplane rammings, most accidents are the result of human error, of passengers or workers doing things they should not.

In the late 1980s, sales in the elevator industry headed south as overconstruction of office space left some large U.S. cities with vacancy rates as high as 20%.

More than a dozen members of the New York Housing Authority's elevator staff — including the official who directs all safety inspections — also work second jobs for private companies in the elevator industry, according to interviews and city records.

The repairs had been made by the maintenance company at the time, Premier Elevator Industries.

In 1999 Thyssen and Krupp combined all of their remaining businesses to create ThyssenKrupp AG, a metals and mining company with additional interests in areas such as the automotive industry, elevator design and fabrication, and engineering services.

"Competitor success creates a context for your opportunity as both large and real," says Gebaide. "It's similar to the proverbial entertainment-industry elevator pitch: 'It's like ET except with Amish.' ".

"Parachute" is not a peculiarity of Afghan elevators, he explained, but rather industry jargon for an automatic stopping device that kicks in when an elevator overaccelerates, which is a fancy way of saying "falls".

The Holy Grail, according to Bruce A. Powell, perhaps the industry's only certified elevator scholar, is to make elevator operation seem effortless from the point of view of passengers.