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Kone Oyj (Finnish pronunciation:; officially known as KONE and trading as KONE Corporation) is an elevator engineering company employing over 60,000 personnel across 60 countries worldwide. It was founded in 1910 and is now headquartered in Helsinki , Finland, with its corporate offices located in Espoo .
KONE High-Rise Test Tower (Underground) [1] Kone: Tytyri, Finland: 1,148 ft (350 m) 1997 One of Kone's major achievements in elevator technology was tested at this facility. 1 H1 Tower [2] Hitachi: Guangzhou, China: 897 ft (273 m) 2020 Became the tallest elevator test tower when completed in January 2020 2 Jauhar Test Tower [3] Otis: Shanghai ...
Montgomery Elevator Company was a vertical transportation company founded in 1892, but entered the elevator business in 1910, acquired Roelofson Elevator of Galt, Ontario in the early 1960s and operated it as its Canadian Division. Montgomery manufactured elevators, escalators, and moving walkways until 1994, when it was acquired by KONE. [1] [2]
Montgomery Elevator: Acquired by Kone, Canadian division in 1985 and U.S. division in 1994. Marshall Elevator: Sold to Otis; Schweizerische Aufzügefabrik AG; Thyssen AG: Merged with Krupp and became ThyssenKrupp in 1999, with subsidiary ThyssenKrupp Elevator AG; ThyssenKrupp Elevator AG announced in 2021 a name change and rebranding to TK ...
It stands 246 m (807 ft) tall and was built to test the company's MULTI elevator system. At 232 m (761 ft), the tower contains Germany's tallest observation deck. [1] It was completed in 2017 and was the tallest elevator test tower in the world then, [2] [3] as well as the second-largest elevator test chamber after a former mine shaft used by Kone.
In 1988 the crane business was combined into the KONE Cranes Division. [7] KONE Cranes Division remained an integral component of Kone until the year 1994. In February of that year, Kone made a strategic decision to refocus its efforts on the elevator business, leading to the divestiture of the crane division into an independent entity.
Upload file; Special pages; Permanent link; ... Kone is a Finnish elevator engineering and service company, founded in 1910. Kone, KONE, Kon ...
In the twenty-first century Schindler became the largest maker of escalators and second largest maker of elevators in the world, though their first escalator installation did not occur until 1936. [11] In 1979, the company entered the United States market by purchasing the Haughton Elevator company. [12]