Our brand 

According to our brand promise 'Dedicated to People Flow™' every KONE employee is dedicated to making cities better places to live and work for everyone. They are committed to ensuring our products and services provide the best People Flow experience for customers and end users.

The word KONE means 'machine' in Finnish and represents our brand's roots in electric motor production, and its 100 year heritage.

The KONE logo history

1910 - The first logo symbolizes the electric motor business KONE started with. The word Osakeyhtiö underneath the KONE name means Corporation in Finnish.

1948 - The logo was redesigned to represent the expanding elevator, industrial cranes and hoisting machinery business it focused on at that time.

1967 - By this time the business had evolved and the logo was re-designed to represent the new company that was emerging with an international presence. A new elevator factory was built in Hyvinkää, Finland during this year to increase production of technologically advanced elevators. Although the inspiration for the logo design is unknown we believe it resembles elevator cars and shafts and even buildings. The blue and white colors reflect the Finnish flag and also maintain a link to KONE's heritage.

1999 to present - The KONE letters inside the blue blocks were updated with a modern, clean typographic style to better suit the company's unified global business.

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