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The offices of Elevator World, Inc. will be closed Friday, July 3, in observance of Independence Day in the U.S. The offices will reopen for regular business hours on Monday, July 6, at 8 a.m.

On June 29, Mitsubishi Electric Corp. launched the Japanese-language version of the Mitsubishi Electric Group’s Environmental Report and Environmental Topics for fiscal year 2009, which detail the group’s environmental activities between April 1, 2008 and March 31. The full report was released on its Japanese website. This will be followed by the English version on its global website in July. The Environmental Topics section provides examples of the company’s success in achieving both efficient, compact and lightweight products, as well as improvements in productivity.

According to a media source from the Iraqi Ministry of Industry and Minerals, public company Al-Tahadi plans to produce electric driven elevators under the license of Japanese firm, Fuji. Al-Tahadi will complete the elevator project at its workshop and will then install them in buildings of end users in Iraq.