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Bangalore , Aug. 19

EYEING India as a significant market for its elevators and escalators, the Germany-based ThyssenKrupp Elevator plans to get a pilot project to test its revolutionary system of two lift cars with one shaft.

It has already embarked upon installing about 100 of this system in the US, where high-rise buildings towering over 50 storeys abound in major cities.

No time frame, however, has been set for the project.

The German company was also planning to try other new technologies such as lightweight lift cars and plastic cables replacing the steel cables — for low capacity and medium speed lift cars.

Explaining the system, Mr Rembert Horstmann, Senior Vice-President (Corporate Communications and Marketing), ThyssenKrupp, said a twin installation consists of two elevators installed in the space taken up by a traditional elevator shaft.

A minimum gap between the cabs was maintained by a four-stage safety system. Twin is optimally used in combination with traditional one-cab-per-shaft elevators based on computer-based destination selection control (DSC) installed at each levels of the high-rise building.

The calls from the users from the bottom most to the top most stop could be served directly and without changing elevator. High-rise buildings with heavy user population could benefit by saving travel time for reaching top-most floors. It also saves costs on the entire gamut of separate machines rooms and need for more elevators shafts in new constructions, thus reducing the building size or increase available space for other useful purpose.

Mr Horstmann, and Mr Horst Linde, Managing Director ThyssenKrupp Elevator (India), who gave the information here while announcing the opening of the new Elevator Engineering Excellence Centre (EEC) in Bangalore, said Indian market offered a great opportunity for elevator companies. It already has three EECs in Ghaziabad near Delhi, Nashik and Mumbai.

Plans Rs 2-cr investments

ThyssenKrupp, which had become the fully-owned subsidiary of its parent German company after having bought over the 10 per cent holding in the B.K. Birla group-held ECE, plans to make fresh investment of Rs 2 crore and double its sales of lift cars and escalators in the next two years.

Mr Horst Linde Managing Director, Thyssen-Krupp (India), said about 10,000 lifts were installed every year, which was about 10 per cent of the installations in Asian countries with large high rise buildings.

ThyssenKrupp hopes to double its annual sales to 2,000 lifts in about two years.

It currently assembles the lifts systems after importing in CKD form, with some minor parts sourced within India.

It also aims at increasing its market share from its current 20 per cent in escalators and seven to 10 per cent in elevators in about two years.

It has a sales turnover of Rs 40 crore form both fresh installations and service and modernisation business, Mr Linde said.

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