In this issue 1/2012

Happy new year! Happy 2012!

This year we celebrate our 40th anniversary!
We will impudently be self-celebrative!
In these first 40 years we have travelled quite a long way until we reached the point where we are now: one of the leading international magazines in the vertical transportation industry. The magazine ranks second in importance and circulation worldwide, the first in Europe and in Italy. The market recognises Elevatori’s leadership from the technical viewpoint.
… we have travelled a long way since 1972, when our founder had the idea. In these four decades we have shared our travel with many people, companies, organisations, associations
and public bodies. With each one of these we have some debts of gratitude, big and small. With many we have strong relationships - sometimes even personal - to which we give high consideration. To celebrate, but must of all to carry out an overview of these forty years together, we thought to be retrospective. Starting from next issue, we will have a look over our shoulder. The next four issues will divide the road
we have gone along in four decades. The story of our “plot”
will follow the path of architecture, design, techniques
and technology, standards, patents and associations.
We will close this cycle with issue 6, on the occasion of Lift 2012. At the end of this timeline, we will go back to the beginning, to Giuseppe Volpe, the creator and founder of the magazine and the Volpe Editore publishing house.
We will interview him in order to discover the reasons leading to the beginning of this story and to know what has not been done and what can still be done for the future of the sector and for Elevatori. A treat to start this new year.
Following the Italian, the English, the Turkish and the Chinese versions, at the 4th International Elevator and Escalator Expo, to be held in Mumbai (16-18 February 2012), Elevatori
is going to present the Hindi/English version of the booklet
How It Works - Book 1. We plan to distribute some 10,000 copies during and following the event.
In 2012, a new column: Bestiarium.

As Hikmet used to say “Our most beautiful days we haven’t seen yet”.

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