Schindler History - A fascinating story...

In its 140-year history, Schindler has grown from a local manufacturer of machines into a global elevator and escalator business.

On the way, it has shaped the industry, defined best practice as a mobility provider and as an employer, and prospered in a highly competitive global environment.

The story begins in a workshop in Lucerne in 1874 and rest of the complete history is here

The company was founded in 1874 in Lucerne, Switzerland, and is today one of the world’s leading providers of elevators, escalators, and moving walks. Schindler is active in the areas of production, installation, maintenance, and modernization. The Group has over 1 000 branch offices in more than 100 countries, as well as production sites and research and development facilities in the USA, Brazil, Europe, China, and India.

Company Profile

Schindler manufactures, installs, services and modernizes elevators, escalators and moving walks for almost every type of building requirement worldwide. The company specializes in the latest-technology engineering, as well as mechanical and microprocessor technology products designed and rigorously tested for safety, comfort, efficiency and reliability.

Inspired by the vision of being the best service provider in the industry for its customers, Schindler will continue in the future to develop highly innovative and user-friendly mobility solutions and to deliver these to the world market.

Schindler products can be found in many well-known buildings throughout the globe, including office buildings, airports, shopping centers/retail establishments and specialty buildings.

KONE - HISTORY

KONE was founded in 1910. During its 100 years as an industrial engineering company, KONE has been involved in businesses as different as textile manufacture, medical technology and the design of hydraulic piping systems. The company's main focus, however, has always been the elevator and escalator business.

Over the years, KONE has proven its ability to adapt to a changing world as well as to create new opportunities for the company to grow. Stable ownership by four generations of the same family has created a strong and supportive environment for continuous development.

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KONE - About

Kone is a tech-service giant in the elevator industry. They are focusing on the people/goods management in a building or building systems. Products includes

1. Elevators
2. Escalators
3. People flow intelligence.

The services provided by KONE are 4 types

1.Design Services

This service deals with the design of buildings people flow system, doing traffic calculation, fixing the right number of right capacity elevators and escalators at right positions. KONE have huge design templates and collection with years of experience.

2. Construction services

In this category, there is two subcategory.

1. Project management and installation services.
2. Constriction time use solutions

3. Maintenance services

This category also have two subcategories.

1. Maintenance and monitoring
2. Spare parts
KONE stocks a wide range of spare parts, it can supply spare parts for other manufacturers also.

4. Modernization services

1. Range of modernization partially/fully for elevators, escalators and moving walks.
2. The KONE care for life.
Complete planning for the elevator,includes planning for the modernization also.

In terms of the technology they are giant of present and future. Kone has spend a lot in the R & D department so that they have all the kinds of solutions and innovative aesthetics in store.

Some of the KONE technologies are irresistible to mention here.

1. KONE ULTRA ROPE
2. KONE ECODISC MOTOR
3. KONE MONOSPACE AND MINISPACE ELEVATORS
4. KONE NANO-SPACE MODERNIZATION
5. KONE ECHO MODE ESCALATOR MODERNIZATION.
6. KONE INNO TRACK AUTO WALK
7. KONE JUMP LIFT CONSTRUCTION TIME ELEVATOR
8. KONE POLARIS
9. KONE ID 300
10. TYTRI

This technology master is also making their products greener day by day.

KONE WEBSITE

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