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Corporate siteKONE Corporation, press release, February 13,2012
KONE has been chosen by the Swedish Exhibition& Congress Centre and Peab to deliver 23 eco-efficientelevators to the Gothia Towers hotel in Gothenburg, Sweden. A new100-meter high tower will be added to the hotel complex, making itthe highest building in Gothenburg. In addition, the 18-storycenter tower, Crown Tower, will be extended by a further sixstories, making it 82 meters high. The three towers, which willcontain a total of 1,208 rooms, will be the biggest fullyintegrated hotel, fair and conference center in Europe.
For the new 29-story tower, KONE will deliver 10KONE MiniSpace® and one KONE MonoSpace® elevators, which areoperated by eco-efficient KONE EcoDisc® hoisting machines. Anadditional seven MiniSpace elevators will be installed in the CrownTower. To meet the hotel's requirements for design, accessibility,safety, and environmental efficiency, KONE will modernize thehoisting system and electrification of five existing elevators inthe West Tower using the KONE ReGenerate solution. The order alsoincludes KONE Polaris® destination control system that willincrease the handling capacity of the elevators and reduce waitingtimes for the hotel guests. Other innovative technologies will beintegrated with the elevators in all three towers, such as the KONEE-Link monitoring system.
"We are very happy that the Swedish Exhibition& Congress Centre and Peab have shown confidence in us. We havea long-standing partnership with both companies and are very proudto be able to offer one of the biggest hotels in Europe the bestPeople Flow® experience," says Ari Lehtoranta, EVP and AreaDirector for KONE Central and North Europe.
All three towers will also have KONE panoramicelevators outside the buildings. The new East Tower and the sixstories that will be built on Crown Tower will be certifiedaccording to the international environmental standard BREEAM.
Construction work has already started and isexpected to be completed by the end of 2014. The order was bookedin the first quarter of 2012.
For further information,please contact:
Anne Korkiakoski, EVP, Marketing & Communications, KONECorporation, tel. +358 204 75 4775
Juha Mennander, Managing Director, KONE Sweden, tel. +46 8 7523503
About KONE
KONE is one of the global leaders in the elevator and escalatorindustry. The company has been committed to understanding the needsof its customers for the past century, providing industry-leadingelevators, escalators and automatic building doors as well asinnovative solutions for modernization and maintenance. Thecompany's objective is to offer the best People Flow(TM) experienceby developing and delivering solutions that enable people to movesmoothly, safely, comfortably and without waiting in buildings inan increasingly urbanizing environment. In 2011, KONE had annualnet sales of EUR 5.2 billion and on average 35,000 employees. KONEclass B shares are listed on the NASDAQ OMX Helsinki Ltd inFinland.