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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.
The Schindler Group took the "Wagi" over completely in 1960, and integrated the company into the group as a subsidiary company. [2] When the Swiss rolling stock manufacturing industry was restructured in 1980–1981, SWS changed its rolling stock specialisation to component manufacturing, as well as alterations and revisions.
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 ...
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[citation needed] The current lift was built and opened by the Schindler Group. The original lift operated at a speed of 1 metre per second (3.3 ft/s) and took nearly three minutes to reach the summit of the Hammetschwand, carrying up to eight people in its wooden and zinc-plated cab.
The introduction of the low-floor tram series has had a long and difficult history. The original orders were placed in 1996. Many questioned the choice of Schindler's Cobra over the already tested Combino series from Siemens which had been selected by both Basel and Bern. VBZ justified the decision to order the trams because of the length of ...
The Mitsubishi Electric-owned Solae Test Tower (173 m) in Inazawa City, Japan, is the world's 4th tallest elevator testing tower after Hyundai elevator test tower at Icheon plant (205 m) South Korea, the Kone Tytyri test tower (235 m) and the Rottweil Test Tower (246 m).
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