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The official magazine for: 2 www.elevatorworld.eu • July - August 2020 Contents 32 ELEVATOR WORLD EUROPE July - August 2020 Vol. II No. 4 FOCUS ON ITALY 32 A Tour of Italy by T.Bruce MacKinnon and Bülent Yılmaz 42 Alberto Sassi by Lee Freeland 42 46 Fixtures for the World by Matt Irvin 54 "Innovation" Sums Up Last Four Years submitted by Montanari Group 46 56 Custom Products, Specific Solutions by Roberta Cosso 60 Style and Substance submitted by IGV Group 54 64 Maspero Takes On the World submitted by Maspero Elevatori 68 In High Gear by Kaija Wilkinson 74 The Peccioli Case by Carlo Ferrari 82 EFESME and ANACAM Partner submitted by EFESME 85 ANACAM on the COVID-19 Frontlines 60 by Titti Lo Papa 4 www.elevatorworld.eu • July - August 2020 26 FEATURES 20 Going Forward by Kaija Wilkinson 24 E2 Forum Precursor by Undine Stricker-Berghoff 26 From R&D to Application by Undine Stricker-Berghoff 64 COLUMNS 88 MRL Lift Design and Development by Hongliang Liang 68 96 The Importance of Directives by Seyed Mohammad Amin Mousavi, Mousa Nazarbeigi and Amir Bahrami 99 Challenging Tradition by Kaija Wilkinson 74 DEPARTMENTS 6 Editor’s Overview 8 Calendar 10 News 106 Product Spotlight 112 Advertisers Index 88 July - August 2020 • ELEVATOR WORLD Europe 5 EDITOR’S OVERVIEW A Return to Merchants on the Mediterranean by Ricia Sturgeon-Hendrick n early February, T. Bruce MacKinnon, president and CEO of Elevator World Inc. (my son), and Bulent Yılmaz, managing director of ELEVATOR WORLD Europe went on a whirlwind Tour of Italy in preparation for Lift Expo Italia, which has since been rescheduled. This was only weeks before the outbreak of the novel coronavirus, which devastated Europe before taking aim at the U.S. IItaly became the center of the pandemic on the continent, with more than 244,000 cases and 35,000 deaths. In early May, Europe began reopening from quarantine with strict social distancing.