General Info

Hollister-Whitney Elevator Corporation manufactures elevator equipment. The family-owned company also provides customer service for its products that are sold around the world. Product parts created by the company include rope grippers, sheaves, roller guide shoes, rigid and swivel guide shoes, disc and drum brakes, safeties, overspeed governors and tension weights, car slings and platforms, counterweight frames, spring and oil buffers, elevator equipment accessories and VVVF Motors for geared machines. The company also manufactures heavy-duty overhead traction machines and where room is limited basement set traction machines. As a distributor for Loher A.G. of Germany motors the company provides the Dynalift and Dynavert Systems. Headquartered in Quincy, Ill., Hollister-Whitney was established in 1905.