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The base of the tower is at about 15 metres (49 ft) of elevation from lake Näsijärvi. There are two elevators, which were changed to new Kone elevators in 2020. Before the update the elevators were manufactured by Valmet-Schliren. The elevators go up to a height of 120 metres (390 ft), to the Pilvilinna ("Cloud Castle") café.
Kone opened an elevator factory in 1966 in Hyvinkää, Finland. The following year Kone was listed on the Helsinki Exchanges and started its international expansion through the acquisition of Sweden's Asea-Graham and its Norwegian and Danish affiliates. Numerous acquisitions followed during the 1970s and 1980s with only the most significant ...
A Kone-Thyssenkrupp Elevator merger would create the world's biggest lift maker, leapfrogging market leader Otis, owned by United Technologies <UTX.N>, and Schindler in second place. Thyssenkrupp ...
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 ...
The elevators are KONE MonoSpace elevators without machinery rooms, with a speed of 2.5 metres per second. The elevators with windows are fit with cooling, which is rare in Finland. One of the elevators is designed so that firemen can use it in case of fire. [6] The Panorama Tower was completed in April 2008. [13]
Ilkka Heikki Herlin (born 25 January 1959) [1] [2] is a Finnish billionaire, the chairman and one of the owners of Cargotec, and one of the owners of the elevator and escalator maker Kone. [ 3 ] His father Pekka Herlin died in 2003, and it was discovered that he had rewritten his will in 1999, leaving most of the elevator and escalator maker ...
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 ...
Location of Finland. Finland is a sovereign state in Northern Europe.It was a relative latecomer to industrialization, remaining a largely agrarian country until the 1950s. It rapidly developed an advanced economy while building an extensive Nordic-style welfare state, resulting in widespread prosperity and one of the highest per capita incomes in the world. [1]