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Stay on Corporate siteKONE Corporation, press release, January 11,
2016
KONE Corporation, one of the global leaders in the elevator and
escalator industry, will equip three new high-end residential
towers for the new Diwang International Fortune Center Building
complex in Liuzhou, southern China. The development will be located
at No. 10 Guangchang Road and will consist of three towers, one
reaching 215 meters, with the other two standing both at 191
meters. The new towers are set to be completed at the end of 2016.
KONE will supply 38 elevators for the project, including two
KONE MonoSpace® and 36 KONE MiniSpace(TM) elevators that will carry
up to 3,000 residents to their apartments every day once the
development stands ready.
The developer, Guangxi Royal Plaza Investment Group, and KONE
have worked together previously, with customer satisfaction in 2013
helping KONE win the tender for this order.
"This is an impressive order for KONE and we are thrilled to
collaborate once again with the Guangxi Royal Plaza Investment
Group on this project," says William B. Johnson, Executive Vice
President for KONE Greater China.
The order was booked in the fourth quarter of 2015.
Previous press releases on KONE's orders are available at
www.kone.com/press, including:
October 14, 2015: KONE wins an order for Tianjin Luneng Lvyinli, a
mixed development project in China
October 6, 2015: KONE wins impressive order for Nanjing Qing Ao
Center Tower 2
For further information, please
contact:
Liisa Kivelä, Director, Communications, KONE Corporation, tel.
+358 204 75 4330. media@kone.com
About KONE
KONE is one of the global leaders in the elevator and
escalator industry. KONE's objective is to offer the best People
Flow® experience by developing and delivering solutions that enable
people to move smoothly, safely, comfortably and without waiting in
buildings in an increasingly urbanizing environment. KONE provides
industry-leading elevators, escalators, automatic building doors
and integrated solutions to enhance the People Flow in and between
buildings. KONE's services cover the entire lifetime of a building,
from the design phase to maintenance, repairs and modernization
solutions. In 2014, KONE had annual net sales of EUR 7.3 billion
and at the end of the year over 47,000 employees. KONE class B
shares are listed on the NASDAQ OMX Helsinki Ltd in Finland.