Fujitec Recieve Order for Elevators with the World's Longest Travel
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March 26, 2018 Fujitec Co., Ltd. Fujitec recieve order for elevators with the world’s longest travel A group company of Fujitec Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Hikone City, Shiga, President and CEO: Takakazu Uchiyama) has won an order for three elevators to be installed. Huasheng Fujitec Elevator Co., Ltd.1 (Headquarters: Langfang City, Hebei Province; President: Yasuyuki Uchiyama) will thus deliver three elevators with the world’s longest travel2 at a hotel to be built in Chicheng County, Zhangjiakou, Hebei Province. The high-speed models prescribed in the order travel at 720 meters per minute. Chicheng County Snowland Traveling and Vacation Development Company (Chicheg Xian Xinxueguo Luyou Dujia Fazhan Youxian Gongsi) is developing the luxury hotel in which these Fujitec elevators will be used. 1. Huasheng Fujitec Elevator Co., Ltd. The Fujitec Group center of sales, research and development, and production of elevators in China 2. Travel The distance within a structure traveled by a single elevator 1 From inside the foot of the 2,159-meter-high mountain that forms part of the competition venue, the elevator shaft will be built up through the vertical hole that is now boring down through the center of the mountain, and will be dedicated to the luxury hotel to be opened at the summit. Traveling over a distance of 638 meters, information about these elevators will be submitted for official recognition in the Guinness World Records as the elevators having the longest travel. The boring work, which has been underway since 2016 to dig down through the mountain from the top, will be completed in 2018. Located in the Beijing suburbs, the area surrounding the completion grounds has been under development as a resort city with abundant tourist, leisure and residential facilities. The continued growth of Chinese fans of winter sports and the ongoing traffic infrastructure development make the future resort facilities likely to remain popular attractions. As a manufacturer specialized in people moving systems, Fujitec will continue to provide global customers with products featuring high safety and security standards. <Contact Us> Fujitec Co., Ltd. Press & Public Relations Office TEL: +81-3-4330-8233 FAX: +81-3-4330-8220 2 .