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HITACHI SETS HIGH GOALS IN THAILAND
Hitachi’s elevator and escalator distributor in Thailand is projecting aggressive sales growth, The Japan Times reported. Michael Tang, vice president of Hitachi Elevator (Thailand) Co., has taken on a new role as head of its sales and marketing unit. He said the company aims to increase its market share to 25% in 2020. To attain its goal, the company intends annual sales growth of 20% on average and is seeking to sell 1,000 units this year, up 18% from 850 units in 2016. Elevators are expected to account for 70% and escalators for 30% of the 2017 total. Thailand’s elevator and escalator market totaled approximately 5,500 units last year and is expected to grow 3-5% this year, the source stated.
LIGHT TOWER, ELEVATOR PROPOSED FOR BOSTON WATERFRONT
Condos, barge-mounted parks and a light tower with elevator make up just one of several proposals for redevelopment of Boston's old Charlestown Navy Yard, the Boston Herald reported. According to the report, the Boston Planning & Development Agency has received a number of suggested new public uses for sections of the Navy Yard on the Boston waterfront. Other ideas include an urban beach, floating swimming pool barges, an outdoor theater, a climbing wall and a maritime science and history park. Architects, artists, civic groups and others have outlined ideas for the property, which housed one of the U.S. Navy's oldest shipbuilding facilities until its closure in 1974.
CNIT CONTRACTS FOR 5,000 AD TERMINALS
China Information Technology, Inc. (CNIT) has entered into a contract with Shanghai Liangyu Communications Technology Ltd., an advertising agency in Shanghai, for the sale of 5,000 CNIT cloud-based elevator-advertising terminals to be installed in that city by the end of the year. CNIT said via a press release on Stockhouse that the sale should help generate recurring revenue arising from customers' use of its Yunfa Net system, which permits an advertiser to create reduced-cost ads on a PC or mobile app, instantly transmit them to the elevator ad terminals of their choice and receive feedback on viewers' responses. The contract is expected to make CNIT's combined sales and service revenue exceed US$1.5 million this year, as it intends to sell a minimum of 60,000 cloud-based ad terminals (worth US$17.5 million).
WORKER DIES IN INDIAN FACTORY
A 27-year-old man died while working in the elevator of a factory in the Narela area of Rohini, India, on May 22, Business Standard reported. The victim was found dead in the elevator on the third floor of a plastic factory, according to police, who were called to the scene. Their investigations revealed that the elevator malfunctioned and started moving suddenly when the victim was working, and he got stuck.
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