| Hyundai Elevator Co. Ltd. | |
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Founded |
1984 |
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Headquarter |
Seoul, South Korea |
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Hyundai Elevator Co. Ltd. (or HELCO[1]) is an elevator and escalator division of Hyundai Group. It is the second-largest elevator and escalator manufacturer in South Korea.
History
The company started their elevator division on January 1984 under a joint-venture between Hyundai Group and Westinghouse Elevator. In 1989, the joint-venture between Hyundai and Westinghouse was terminated, as Westinghouse was recently acquired by Schindler.
List of products
Current
Elevators
- STVF: Standard geared traction elevator for low to high-rise buildings made since in the late 1990s. It is the successor of WC-VF.
- LUXEN: Premium gearless traction elevator for low to mid-rise buildings. Also known as LXVF.
- YZER: Machine room less elevator.
- YZER-I
- i-XEL: High speed elevator for high-rise buildings.
- The EL 1080: Ultra high speed elevator for high-rise buildings.
- The EL Duo: Double deck elevator.
- Innover: Gearless traction elevator manufactured by Hyundai Elevator China.
- Observation elevator
- Freight & automobile elevator
- Marine elevator
- Home elevator
Escalators and moving walks
- World Class and Millenium: Escalator for commercial applications.
- H-Series: Heavy-duty escalator.
- S-Series: Escalator
- Modular: Escalator for public transport facilities.
- Moving Walk
Discontinued
- VAC: Standard passenger elevator made in the 1980s.
- 60VF and WC-VF: Low to mid-rise VVVF elevator made in the 1990s.
Notable elevator installations
Main article: List of Notable Elevator Installations of Hyundai
Overseas sole agents/distributors
- Abans Ltd. (Sri Lanka)
- Arabian Elevators & Engineering Co. Ltd. (United Arab Emirate)
- Bseiso Engineering Materials Corp. (Jordan)
- CNS Automation Inc. (United States and Canada)
- Deal General Trading & Contracting Co. (Kuwait)
- Duford East Elevator Pte. Ltd. (Singapore)
- Edgeworks Ltd. (Bangladesh)
- Eleva RD (Dominican Republic)
- G Gear (Cambodia)
- H.E.M Global (Mongolia)
- HD Global (HK) Engineering Service Ltd. (Hong Kong)
- Hyco Industrial Sales Corp. (Philippines)
- Integral International Ltd. (Myanmar)
- International Engineering & Trade (Egypt)
- Islamabad Industrial & Trading Corp. (Pakistan)
- Kinetic Escalator & Elevator Ltd. (India)
- Laman Premium Sdn. Bhd. (Malaysia)
- Loxley Public Company (Thailand)
- Master Silver Lift (Russia)
- MBf Norinco Sdn. Bhd. (Malaysia, acquired by ThyssenKrupp in 2004[2])
- Mehfakhr (Iran)
- PT. Superhelindo Jaya Perkasa (Indonesia[3], since 1993)
- PT. Superhelindo Putra Perkasa (Central Java)
- PT. Superhelindo Jaya (Bali)
- Regional Traders Ltd. (Bangladesh)
Trivia
- In 2006, 25.5% stake of Hyundai elevator was acquired by Schindler, which is in turn the world's fourth biggest elevator market.
- In South Korea, there are very few Hyundai elevators branded as Schindler.
- Prior to 1999, Hyundai was a distributor for Dover elevators in South Korea.
- Hyundai is the first elevator manufacturer in South Korea to produce double deck elevators. Their double deck elevators have been installed at Hyundai's Asan Elevator Test Tower (2009) and recently at the LG U+ Building in Yong-san, Seoul (2015)
- The longest Hyundai escalators in Indonesia are located in Ciputra World Surabaya in Surabaya. Completed in 2011, these escalators are 16 m high and runs at 30 m/m. Together they allow shoppers to travel 34 m from the ground floor up to the 3rd floor of the mall quickly and conveniently. Traveling from one to another end takes 66 seconds. These escalators have been listed by MURI (Museum Rekor Indonesia) as "the longest escalators in the country".
Gallery
Older 1990s Hyundai logo on an escalator landing plate.
A Hyundai elevator in The Aroma's of Bali Hotel, Bali, Indonesia (installed in 2010).
A set of two Hyundai elevators at Mayapada Hospital, Jakarta.
Hyundai elevator capacity badge.
LUXEN Digital Gearless badge.
A view of the doors and the floor indicator inside a newer Hyundai elevator(Installed at 2013)
Notes and references
External links
| Major elevator and escalator companies | |
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| Full list of companies | List of elevator and escalator companies |
| Operating | Fujitec • Hitachi • Hyundai • Kone • Mitsubishi Electric (Shanghai Mitsubishi) • Otis (Otis Electric • Sigma) • Schindler • TK Elevator • Toshiba |
| Defunct | Dover Elevators • Express Lift • Orenstein & Koppel • Thyssen • thyssenkrupp • Westinghouse |
| Other companies | Third-party elevator maintenance companies |