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Friday, February 22, 2013

Understanding the Lifts and Elevators Industry

Lifts and Elevators have become the part and parcel of everyday life. Imagine your office being in the 20th Floor and you have to climb through the hundred steps, to reach there every day.These lifts are manufactured by leading lifts and elevators manufacturers and exported and imported to respective buyers.

In the manufacturing industry lifts are not manufactured as a single product. Rather they make elevator doors, lightings, fan and air conditions and other essential electronic equipment like switches, indicators and so on.

The industries that utilize elevators and lifts are vast. Hospitals, airports, hotels, commercial buildings,residential apartments and the giant skyscrapers, you just name it and there are varieties of them to explain you the use of varied range of lifts and elevators.

Escalators are moving stairs that go upward or downward to move passengers from one floor to the other. Especially airports, metro stations and shopping malls have this facility of escalators.
Apart from that, mines, blast furnaces and construction sites require special kinds of elevators that move the goods up and down the work site. Industrial lifts and elevators have their own set of specifications to perform.

Climbing elevators work on own propulsion, hence are called self-ascending elevators. They are driven by electricity or combustion engine.

Hydraulic elevators are of 3 types, such as holeless hydraulic elevators, roped hydraulic elevators and conventional hydraulic elevators. They use ground cylinders to function.

A traction hydraulic elevator contains overhead traction cables and counterweight, but the power driving this elevator comes from hydraulic systems rather than an overhead traction.

The modern day lifts and elevators are equipped with guard rails, standing space, overhead sensor, fan, call buttons, fire alarm, hold buttons, security cameras, access restriction switches, inspector switch, manual up down control in the internal part of the lifts.

1 comment:

  1. This is an interesting blog, full of knowledge about hydraulic equipments and machinery. Essem Engineers is a manufacturer of traction lifts. Your travel comfort is assured by the excellent stopping precision and low noise operation of these lifts.

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