| During the current year, the world economy will create challenges and uncertainties in the business environment of our key markets. In this business environment, companies in all industries must focus on efficiency, productivity and cost structure.
KONE sees the current global economic situation also as a potential opportunity. By improving the ecoefficiency of our products, particularly by continuously reducing the energy consumption of our volume elevators, we can provide our customers immediate savings from the first electricity bill after installing the elevator. In the long term, we can decrease the lifetime cost of ownership of elevators and escalators and contribute towards sustainable management of buildings. |
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Improving the eco-efficiency of our own operations means the efficient use of resources and reducing costs. We do not only reduce our environmental impact but contribute to the bottom line of our business performance.
We believe that sustainability strategies and the focus on eco-efficiency, in particular, are gaining importance in the current business environment, since it clearly helps both to gain immediate savings and to cut lifetime expenses while reducing the environmental impacts of the products and business operations.