Vijay Karthik
Chennai, Jun 7 (PTI): Elevator and escalator major Kone India, a 100 per cent subsidiary of Finland's Kone Corporation, plans to introduce energy saving elevators in the country by 2012, a senior company official has said.
The proposed elevators would work efficiently even while saving 50 per cent energy, Kone Technology Senior Vice- President Jussi Oijala told PTI here.
The company is expected to start manufacturing the elevators, equipped with new generation technology, at the Chennai plant within two years, he said.
Kone has a production facility at Ayanambakkam near here.
It employs about 2,800 people in all, and has 40 branches across the country.
Oijala said the new elevators would shut off automatically when not in use. "Through this, we can make them (elevators) perform much better," he said.
The company has already launched the energy saving elevators in Europe.