Elevator design hasn't progressed very much during the past 160 years, and still comprises cabins which move vertically in a shaft supported by cables. This is inefficient and limiting, taking up a ...

FRANKFURT/DUESSELDORF (Reuters) - Finland's Kone is assessing the viability of a bid for Thyssenkrupp's 14 billion euro ($15.7 billion) elevators division even as the German conglomerate pursues plans ...

A Columbia University study found that New York office workers spent a collective 5.9 years riding in elevators–and 16.6 years waiting for elevators. And that was just in 2010. ThyssenKrupp is ...

Further demonstrating the company’s commitment to global sustainability, ThyssenKrupp Elevator Americas released its 2009/2010 Corporate Sustainability Report on August 12, 2011. An educational ...

As cities across the world ease Coronavirus lockdown restrictions, it is important to ensure that the elevators used by millions of people every day remain a comfortable, efficient and secure way of ...

Thyssenkrupp Elevator Canada has acquired Winnipeg Elevator Group, a Winnipeg-based provider of services to elevators, stairlifts, escalators and dumbwaiters. No financial terms were disclosed.

Elevator research and development inside the substantially complete 246-meter-tall thyssenkrupp Elevator AG test and observation tower in Rottweil, Germany, will begin next year, though the lift ...

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Thyssenkrupp is likely to appoint company veteran Peter Walker to succeed Andreas Schierenbeck as the chief executive of its elevators unit, two people familiar with the matter ...

Kone signalled its interest in buying Thyssenkrupp's elevator business on Wednesday, with the Finnish firm's CEO Henrik Ehrnrooth saying it was an "ideal match". Widely seen as a likely bidder for ...

Kone Oyj’s Chief Executive Officer Henrik Ehrnrooth wants a full merger with Thyssenkrupp AG’s elevator unit, as the Finnish firm prepares a bid for its German rival’s crown jewel that could thwart ...