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Stay on Corporate siteKONE Corporation, press release, August 18,
2020
KONE
Corporation, a global leader in the elevator and escalator
industry, will deliver 83 escalators and 20 elevators to the second
phase of the Metro Line 6 in Chongqing, in southwest China.
The Line 6 will become an important connection running through the
Liangjiang New Area in the north of the city. The Liangjiang New
Area and especially its Yuelai district are important hubs bringing
together international business, exhibitions and conferences,
leisure tourism, cultural creativity, and ecological living. The
new metro connection will further accelerate the ongoing eco-city,
smart city, and exhibition city developments in the area.
Spanning over 14
kilometers in total, the phase two of the Chongqing Metro Line 6
will travel from Yuelai station to Shaheba station through seven
stops. It will be connected to three other existing lines of the
Chongqing metro system. KONE will help smooth the flow of people
along the new line by equipping the stations with 83 KONE
TransitMaster™ escalators, 16 KONE MonoSpace® elevators, and four
KONE MiniSpace™ elevators. Additionally, the contract includes two
years of standard maintenance.
"Chongqing is an important industrial area and a major
transportation hub in the country, and we are proud to contribute
to its urban development by providing our solutions and expertise
to this new metro line project," said William B. Johnson, Executive
Vice President, KONE Greater China.
The project is estimated
to be completed at the end of 2020, and it is developed by
Chongqing Rail Transit Co., Ltd.
KONE booked the order in the first quarter of 2020.
For further information,
please contact:
Hanna Rutanen, Director, External
Communications, KONE Corporation, tel. +358 41 507 1361,
media@kone.com
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Previous press releases are available at https://www.kone.com/en/news-and-insights/releases/
including:
July 28, 2020: KONE wins order for the first phase of Jinan Metro
Line R2 in China
May 28, 2020: KONE to equip Beijing's Metro Line 17 in
China
April 30, 2020: KONE wins order to equip Nanchang Metro Line 3 in
China
April 15, 2020: KONE UltraRope® to feature in a new luxury hotel
tower in Nanjing, China
About
KONE
At KONE, our mission is to improve the flow of urban life. As a
global leader in the elevator and escalator industry, KONE provides
elevators, escalators and automatic building doors, as well as
solutions for maintenance and modernization to add value to
buildings throughout their life cycle. Through more effective
People Flow®, we make people's journeys safe, convenient and
reliable, in taller, smarter buildings. In 2019, KONE had annual
sales of EUR 10 billion, and at the end of the year approximately
60,000 employees. KONE class B shares are listed on the Nasdaq
Helsinki Ltd. in Finland.
www.kone.com