Kone has broadened its service footprint with the acquisition of the 57-year-old Virginia Elevator Co., the elevator/escalator manufacturer announced Wednesday.

DUESSELDORF/ZURICH (Reuters) - ThyssenKrupp's new $43 million elevator test tower soars 246 metres (808 ft) above the German town of Rottweil, but the company's lifts chief is not only thinking ...

KONE Corporation, press release, September 1, 2016 KONE, a global leader in the elevator and escalator industry, today announced it has acquired the business of City Elevator Company in New York ...

The R&D engineers of Kone Elevator India, along with their global team, have come out with an innovative solution to operate elevators using WhatsApp. “It is a first-of-its-kind application.

Essentially, KONE has replaced steel ropes with 2.5-centimeter-wide by 0.5-cm-thick belts comprising four cores of carbon fiber embedded in epoxy resin with a high-friction surface. In a 400-m ...