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The Otis Elevator Company had the factory built in 1900. The company, then the nation's largest elevator manufacturer, sought to grow its sales in Chicago, as the city's growth and numerous new skyscrapers made it a profitable market for elevators. The Chicago firm of Adler & Treat designed the factory as a brick building with Colonial Revival ...
In 2005, Schindler acquired the Hontz Elevator Company [1] after a brief legal battle with the German authorities over the registration of the company name. [citation needed] The court held that the Hontz Elevator Company had been established in the 19th century by Karl Hontz (then under the title Die Hontz Aufzugfirma) according to a folder of documents that had previously surfaced in the ...
Schindler Holding Ltd. [2] is a Swiss multinational company which manufactures escalators, moving walkways, and elevators worldwide, founded in Switzerland in 1874. Schindler produces, installs, maintains and modernizes lifts and escalators in many types of buildings including residential, commercial and high-rise buildings.
Otis Elevator Company Factory Building, Chicago, Illinois, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Chicago, Illinois; Otis Elevator Company Building (Portland, Oregon), NRHP-listed; Otis Building a 16-story high rise at 10 South LaSalle Street in Chicago, Illinois, begun in 1913 and now demolished
Hale founded W. E. Hale & Co., a Chicago-based company which pioneered the construction of hydraulic elevators in the West, in 1870. [1] [2] Hale sold it to the Otis Elevator Company in 1887. [2] Hale was a real estate investor in Chicago, where he owned many buildings, including the Reliance Building. [2] He also invested in the railroads. [1]
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In 1947, Charles W. Lerch started a company performing maintenance and repairs, C. W. Lerch Co, (widely accepted as the first independent elevator consulting company) in Chicago. [9] He later added elevator consulting as a side business. In 1964 Charles W. Lerch was joined by Vane Q. Bates and both men working full-time on elevator consulting.
In the early 1980s the Omaha-based company Scoular Grain was a growing agribusiness led by Nebraska grain industry executive Marshall Faith. Faith, along with several other investors, had acquired what was then Scoular-Bishop Grain Company in 1967 [5] and expanded its operations from three grain elevators to dozens of locations in multiple states, and was beginning to branch out beyond grain ...