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Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
三菱電機グループ
Mitsubishi Electric

Founded

January 15, 1921 (Tokyo, Japan)

Headquarter

Tokyo Building, Marunouchi, Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan

Website

http://www.mitsubishielectric.co.jp/
http://www.mitsubishielectric.com/

Mitsubishi Electric Elevator is a division of Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (Japanese: 三菱電機グループMitsubishidenki gurūpu) that manufactures elevators, escalators, moving walks, spiral escalators and dumbwaiters since 1931.

History

Mitsubishi began manufacturing elevators and escalators in 1931. In the 1980s, Mitsubishi manufactured the world's first inverter VVVF elevator. Mitsubishi started installing elevators in North America in 1985. In 1985, Mitsubishi launched the world's first practical "spiral escalator", and the first unit was installed in Osaka, Japan.

In 1993, Mitsubishi supplied elevators to Yokohama Landmark Tower, which is the fastest elevators in the world at that time until 2004 when the record was surpassed by Toshiba in Taipei 101 Tower (later by Otis in Burj Khalifa). Mitsubishi began manufacturing their own machine room less elevator in the late 1990s. Later in 2011, Mitsubishi received orders to install the world's fastest elevators for Shanghai Tower in Shanghai, the tallest structure in China. These elevators are running at speed of 18 m/s (or 59 feet)[1][2].

Location

Mitsubishi currently has its headquarters in Tokyo and a manufacturing plant in Inazawa called Mitsubishi Electric Inazawa Works. The SOLAÈ testing tower, which is one of the tallest elevator testing towers in the world, is also located in the Inazawa Works.

In Southeast Asia, Mitsubishi has elevator manufacturing plants located in Indonesia and Thailand. The Indonesian plant, which is operated by PT. Mitsubishi Jaya Elevator and Escalator, is located in Karawang International Industrial City (KIIC) in Karawang, West Java and was opened in 2004. It also has a training tower. A second plant in the same area was completed in June 2015[3]. In Thailand, the manufacturing plant is located in Amata Nakorn Industrial Estate, Chonburi.

Other Mitsubishi elevator factories are located in China (located in Shanghai and Guangdong), Taiwan, South Korea, Netherlands, Mexico and Colombia.

Products

Current products

Elevators

  • NexWay: Compact machine room passenger elevator.
  • Elenessa: Machine room less elevator.
  • NEXIEZ: Standard passenger elevator.
    • NEXIEZ-MR: Machine room type elevator.
    • NEXIEZ-MRL: Machine room less elevator.
    • NEXIEZ-GPX: Only sold in Latin America. Comes in MR and MRL type.
    • NEXIEZ-LITE: Machine room type elevator, only sold in India.
    • NEXIEZ-S: Smaller machine room less elevator for small commercial and residential applications.
  • MAXIEZ: Series of passenger elevators, only sold in China.
    • MAXIEZ M/H: High speed custom type elevator.
    • MAXIEZ CZ: Compact machine room elevator.
    • MAXIEZ LZ: Machine room less elevator.
    • MAXIEZ B: Hospital elevators.
  • NexPia-21: Compact machine room less elevator, only sold in South Korea.
  • DiamondTrac: Machine room less elevator only sold in the U.S.
  • GPM-III: High-rise elevator only sold in the U.S.
  • GPE-MRL: Machine room less elevator, only manufactured and sold in the Netherlands.
  • GPE-T: Traction elevator, only manufactured and sold in the Netherlands.
  • GPE-H: Hydraulic elevator, only manufactured and sold in the Netherlands.
  • MEECOM: Machine room less elevator, only manufactured and sold in the Netherlands.
  • Freight elevators
  • DOAS-S (Destination Oriented Allocation System): Destination dispatch elevator system. (Also known as ELE-NAVI in Japan.[4]) It work faster than Schindler Miconic 10 and Schindler ID.[5]
  • Home elevators
  • AXIEZ: Machine room less elevator only sold in Japan.
  • NEXCUBE: Custom type elevator only sold in Japan.
  • CPX-3: Residential elevators only sold in Taiwan.

Escalators and moving walks

  • Seriez Z: Standard escalator produced since 2006.
  • Series S: Standard escalator introduced in 2016.
  • J-Type: Standard escalator, nowadays only sold in South Korea[6].
  • Spiral Escalator: The only spiral escalator made by Mitsubishi in the world, introduced in 1985.
  • A-Type: Moving walks

Elevator modernizations

  • ELEMOTION: Elevator modernization solution for low to mid-rise buildings, introduced in 2001.
    • ELEMOTION + and ELEMOTION + R: Only sold in Japan.
    • ELEMOTION + for COMPACT 4: Modernization for COMPACT 4 elevators in Japan.
  • EleFine: Modernization solution for hydraulic elevators into machine room less, introduced in 2011 and only sold in Japan.

Others

Discontinued products

Elevators

  • Elepet: Standard passenger elevator made from 1960 until the late 1980s.
    • Elepet Advance: Computerized passenger elevator, introduced in 1979.
    • Elepet Advance V: Computerized elevators which were made from the late 1980s until the 1990s.
  • GRANDEE: Standard VVVF passenger elevator introduced in 1990 which uses LED floor indicators.
  • ACCEL: Fully computerized custom made elevator introduced in 1982.
  • ACCEL-AI: Custom made elevator, introduced in 1992.
  • COMPACT 4: An elevator for low-rise apartments, introduced in 1983.
  • MEL WIDE: Elevator for low to mid-rise apartments, introduced in 1997.
  • MEL CITY: Elevator for low to mid-rise buildings, introduced in 2000.
  • WELL: Mitsubishi's first home elevator designed for private homes, introduced in 1988.
  • GPQ: Bottom-drive machine room less elevator, introduced in 1998. It is known as ELEPAQ in Japan. Succeeded by Elenessa.
  • ELEPAQ-i: Machine room less elevator only sold in Japan, introduced in 2001. Outside Japan, it is known as Elenessa.
  • GPS-III: Standard passenger elevator, introduced in 1997. Succeeded by NexWay.
  • GPX: Compact passenger elevator for low-rise buildings with a maximum capacity of 10 persons and serves up to 16 floors.
  • GPS-IIIMZ: Elevator modernization solution for low to mid-rise buildings, based on GPS-III.
  • GPM-IIIMZ: Elevator modernization solution for high-rise buildings, based on GPM-III.

Escalators and moving walks

  • J-Type: Standard escalator for commercial applications. Discontinued, except in South Korea.
  • Series A Modular: Heavy-duty escalator designed for public transport facilities.

Others

  • MELMOS-II: Elevator monitoring and control system.

Subsidiaries

Notable installations

Main article: List of notable Mitsubishi elevator installations

Incident

In November 2006, the European branch of Mitsubishi elevator and escalator division was fined 479 million Euros by the European Union after found out that Mitsubishi was doing price fixing over 9 years. Other manufacturers that were fined including Otis, Schindler, Kone and ThyssenKrupp.[7]

Overseas sole agents/distributors

  • Agencias Generales S.A. (Costa Rica)
  • Ascensores S.A. (Guatemala)
  • Ascensores Heavenward S.A. (Argentina and Chile)
  • Coheco Cia. Ltda. (Ecuador)
  • Cylift & Equipment Ltd. (Cyprus)
  • Electronec Technical Associates (Qatar)
  • Elmas S.R.L. (Romania)
  • Emirates Technical Associates (Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates)
  • Ennis Lifts Ltd. (Ireland)
  • FAIN Ascensores (Spain)
  • Inelec S. de R.L. (Honduras)
  • Instalaciones Electro-mecanicas S.A. (Panama)
  • Inter-Up (Israel)
  • International Elevator & Equipment Inc. (Philippines)
  • Mits Electrical Company Ltd. (Kenya)
  • Mitsulift (Lebanon, Jordan, Cyprus, Nigeria, and Ghana)
  • Ryoden Sdn. Bhd. (Malaysia)
  • San Miguel & Cia (Dominican Republic)
  • Serge Pun & Associates (Myanmar)
  • Syscon (Bahrain)
  • Thang Long Elevator (Hanoi, Vietnam)
  • Toan Tam Engineering (Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam)
  • Trianon Ascensores S.A. (Peru)
  • Uniheis A/S (Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Belgium and Luxembourg)

Trivia

  • Mitsubishi is the most common elevator brand in Thailand so far, with 30% market share in Thailand's elevator market in 2015.[8]
  • When the door open button in some Mitsubishi elevators is kept pressed for a long time, there will be a voice guidance says "Sorry to keep you waiting" when the doors are closing.
  • When the door has been held open for too long, there will be a voice guidance says "Door closing" followed by three continuous beeps.
  • When the doors closed and there are no hall or car calls, there will be a voice uidance says "Please press the button for the desired floor".
  • From 1963 to 1972, Mitsubishi elevators and escalators in Malaysia and Singapore were supplied and installed by China Engineers. In 1972, China Engineers along with Mitsubishi formed a joint venture called Ryoden, and installations during the 1970s and 1980s were carried out by Ryoden.
  • From 1971 until 1996, Mitsubishi elevators and escalators in Indonesia were supplied and installed by PT. Jaya Teknik - Elevator Division.

Gallery

Logos

Landing door sills

Capacity badges

Others

Note

  1. ↑ Mitsubishi Electric to Install World's Fastest Elevators in Shanghai Tower
  2. ↑ Mitsubishi Electric to Install World's Fastest Elevators in Shanghai Tower (PDF version)
  3. ↑ Mitsubishi Elevator Completes Construction at 2nd Indonesian Plant - The Jakarta Globe
  4. ↑ 三菱エレベーター行先予報システム｢ELE-NAVI（エレ・ナビ）｣新製品発売
  5. ↑ hkelev - Destination Dispatch system
  6. ↑ J-Type (South Korea)
  7. ↑ Price fixing cartel incident
  8. ↑ Mitsubishi Electric to train elevator technicians in Thailand

See also

External links

Major elevator and escalator companies
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
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