FRANKFURT/DUESSELDORF (Reuters) - Finland's Kone is assessing the viability of a bid for Thyssenkrupp's 14 billion euro ($15.7 billion) elevators division even as the German conglomerate pursues plans ...

Elevator design hasn't progressed very much during the past 160 years, and still comprises cabins which move vertically in a shaft supported by cables. This is inefficient and limiting, taking up a ...

A Columbia University study found that New York office workers spent a collective 5.9 years riding in elevators–and 16.6 years waiting for elevators. And that was just in 2010. ThyssenKrupp is ...

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Thyssenkrupp (TKAG.DE) is likely to appoint company veteran Peter Walker to succeed Andreas Schierenbeck as the chief executive of its elevators unit, two people familiar with ...

As cities across the world ease Coronavirus lockdown restrictions, it is important to ensure that the elevators used by millions of people every day remain a comfortable, efficient and secure way of ...

Elevator research and development inside the substantially complete 246-meter-tall thyssenkrupp Elevator AG test and observation tower in Rottweil, Germany, will begin next year, though the lift ...

Last May, Germany based Thyssenkrupp decided to divide itself into two separate companies as part of a major restructuring effort. That strategy called for spinning off its profitable Elevator ...

FRANKFURT/DUESSELDORF, Germany (Reuters) - Swiss elevator maker Schindler would embark on an all-out antitrust offensive in the courts to stall any deal to combine Thyssenkrupp's lift division with ...

ThyssenKrupp Elevator opened a new factory for escalators, moving walks and passenger boarding bridges in Zhongshan, Guangdong Province, China. ThyssenKrupp Elevator can produce up to 4,000 escalators ...

Kone Oyj’s Chief Executive Officer Henrik Ehrnrooth wants a full merger with Thyssenkrupp AG’s elevator unit, as the Finnish firm prepares a bid for its German rival’s crown jewel that could thwart ...