Finland’s Top Lift Maker is Elevating

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Finland’s Top Lift Maker is Elevating

KONE lift engineering focuses on designing, manufacturing, installing, and maintaining innovative and eco-efficient elevators, escalators, and automatic doors to improve urban life and building flow. Now, Finland’s top lift maker is elevating.

Kone has been making people’s journeys safe and seamless since 1910. Over the years, KONE has consistently demonstrated its ability to adapt to the challenges of a rapidly changing world. Its offerings have ranged from industrial cranes to emergency room patient monitors, ice-skate blades, and nylon socks. But the elevator and escalator business has always been its primary focus.

Finland’s Top Lift Maker is Elevating
Kunshan test tower in China is the Asian twin of KONE’s high-rise laboratory in Finland. Towering 235 meters above land, this is where cutting-edge high-rise innovations undergo rigorous testing.

Kone now operates in nearly 70 countries and employs over 60,000 staff. Its products move a staggering two billion people every day. The company leverages its extensive engineering expertise and advanced technology, including 3D design tools, IoT solutions, and AI-powered monitoring, to create connected, sustainable, and user-friendly people flow systems that meet the demands of modern urban environments. KONE also provides comprehensive technical data and design resources for elevator consultants and offers training programs to develop skilled lift engineers.

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Breakthrough technologies, including the machine-room-less elevator and a superlight hoisting rope that enables elevator travel of up to 1 kilometer, have earned KONE a reputation as a global innovator.

Finland’s Top Lift Maker is Elevating
KONE provides a suite of People Flow® solutions for The Node – a 130-meter-high, 32-storey office building in the Pasila neighborhood of Helsinki, Finland.

The increasing digitization of how buildings operate is Kone’s next frontier, and the firm is hoping to rise to the challenge. Its elevators now connect to the cloud and communicate in real-time with building systems, maintenance teams, and, increasingly, with users themselves, to help anticipate maintenance needs, shorten wait times, or even turn on the air-conditioning in your office as you enter the building.

KONE is a leader in elevator technology, holding over 3,000 patents. Engineering efforts prioritize energy efficiency and sustainability, creating solutions that contribute to smarter, greener cities.

Stable ownership by four generations of the Herlin family has created a strong and supportive environment for development, enabling KONE to continue responding to the people flow challenges of an increasingly urban future.

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Finland’s Top Lift Maker is Elevating
Kone now operates in nearly 70 countries and employs over 60,000 staff.

As cities become more vertical and digital, the way that people move within them is becoming increasingly important and complex. Kone’s answer is to build tools that are elegant, intuitive, and all but invincible. Its products seek to make movement feel seamless, whether you’re stepping into a metro station, navigating an airport, or returning home at the end of the day.

The core mission of KONE’s engineering is to enhance the flow of urban life, making cities more accessible and efficient for large and growing populations.

Finland’s Top Lift Maker is Elevating, Tor Kjolberg reporting.

All images © KONE Corporation

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Journalist, PR and marketing consultant Tor Kjolberg has several degrees in marketing management. He started out as a marketing manager in Scandinavian companies and his last engagement before going solo was as director in one of Norway’s largest corporations. Tor realized early on that writing engaging stories was more efficient and far cheaper than paying for ads. He wrote hundreds of articles on products and services offered by the companies he worked for. Thus, he was attuned to the fact that storytelling was his passion.

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