KONE Elevator India Pvt. Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of KONE Corporation, a global leader in the elevator and escalator industry, today inaugurated its world-class facility for elevators in SIPCOT Industrial Park, Pillaipakkam, Sriperumbudur near Chennai. This state-of-the-art elevator manufacturing facility was inaugurated by Thiru Banwarilal Purohit, Honourable Governor of Tamil Nadu in the presence of H.E. Pekka Haavisto, Honourable Minister for Foreign Affairs of Finland, Thiru M. C. Sampath, Honourable Minister for Industrial Department, Govt. of Tamil Nadu, Antti Herlin, Chairman, Henrik Ehrnrooth, President & CEO, Axel Berkling, EVP APA from KONE Corporation and Amit Gossain, Managing Director, KONE India. The new facility is built at an investment of INR 450 crore, employing around 600 people, and is designed for a capacity based on demand.
KONE India is now all set to ride on the wave of urbanisation in the country with its new plant. Spread across a whopping 50,000 sqm, KONE’s new elevator manufacturing unit is the largest in this region. The factory is equipped with the latest technology in production, reinforcing KONE’s customer focused strategy to provide the most competitive, highest quality products with short delivery time. Though the new plant will majorly focus on the Indian market, KONE will be exporting to neighbouring countries like Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.
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