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The building's high-speed elevators, manufactured by Toshiba of Japan, held the record for the fastest in the world at the time of completion. The elevators of Taipei 101 that transport passengers from the 5th to the 89th floor in 37 seconds (attaining 60.6 km/h (37.7 mph)) set speed records.
The tower is 173 metres (568 ft). [1] When completed in 2007, it was the world's tallest elevator test tower. Since that time, the record has been broken by the Hyundai Eizan Tower (205 meters) in 2009, the Hitachi G1 Tower (213 meters) in 2010 and the Kunshan Test Tower in China (235 meters).
Became the tallest elevator test tower when completed in January 2020 2 Jauhar Test Tower [3] Otis: Shanghai, China: 886 ft (270 m) 2018 In Shanghai, the world’s oldest elevator manufacturer is set to make the biggest research and development center for really tall elevators — a really tall test tower. 3 Canny Test Tower [4] Canny Elevator
It had the world's fastest elevators at a top speed of 20.5 meters per second (74 km/h; 46 mph) until 2017, [11] [12] when it was surpassed by the Guangzhou CTF Finance Center, with its top speed of 21 meters per second (76 km/h; 47 mph). [13]
7. Hitachi Building Systems Revenue -$ 5,676.73 million Number of Employees -N/A. Japanese giant Hitachi delves into the elevator and escalator industry with its Building Systems division.
The tower contains what were at their inauguration the world's fastest elevators (installed by Mitsubishi Electric), which reach speeds of 12.5 m/s (41 ft/s) [1] (45.0 km/h (28.0 mph)). This speed allows the elevator to reach the 69th floor in approximately 40 seconds. [6] The elevators' speed record was surpassed by elevators of Taipei 101 (60 ...
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.
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