Montgomery KONE was the merging brand between Montgomery Elevator Company and Kone in the United States and Canada. It was formed after Kone bought Montgomery in 1985 in Canada and 1994 in the United States. The brand was officially defunct in 2000 in both countries and became Kone Inc. as part of Kone's consolidation of its brand identity worldwide[1].
List of known elevator and escalator models
Almost all of these models were originally Montgomery products that were continued by Montgomery Kone following the merger. Certain types of elevators such as freight and gearless traction elevators do not have known model names.
Elevators
- Series 90v: Geared AC traction elevator for mid rise buildings.
- Series 90s: Geared DC traction elevator for mid rise buildings.
- MX: Inground hydraulic elevator (later continued by Kone)
- HH: Single/two stage holeless hydraulic elevator (later continued by Kone)
- Value Series: Cost effective hydraulic elevator.
- HVS-H: Single stage holeless hydraulic elevator.
- HVS-I: Inground hydraulic elevator.
Escalators and moving walkways
- E-Series 5000
- E-Series HR
- W-Series: Horizontal moving walkways (Power Walks)
- R-Series: Inclined moving walkways (Power Ramps)
Notable installations
United States
Illinois
- Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago
- Park Hyatt Hotel, Chicago
- IKEA, Schaumburg
Puerto Rico
- Las Catalinas Mall, Caguas
- Sears
- Plaza Centro Mall, Caguas
- JCPenney
- Plaza del Sol Mall, Bayamon
Other states
- Palisades Shopping Center, West Nyack, NY
- Albuquerque International Sunport (AIS) Airport, Albuquerque, NM
- Marriott's Beach Place Tower, Fort Lauderdale Beach, FL
- Missouri State Capitol, Jefferson City, MO
- Kansas City Convention Center Arena, Kansas City, MO
- John Glenn Columbus International Airport, Columbus, OH
- Denver International Airport, Denver, CO (1995)
- State of Georgia Building, Atlanta, GA (1994-1996, modernizations)
- West Tower, Tropicana Resort and Casino, Atlantic City, NJ (1996)
- NJT Hamilton Station, Hamilton Twp, NJ (1998)
- 101 E Park Blvd, Plano, TX (modernized since 2000)
- JCPenney, The Parks at Arlington, Arlington, TX (1995)
- Macy's, Westminster Mall, Westminster, CA (1998, installed when it was Robinson's-May)
- International Plaza, Dallas, TX (1999)
- Providence Portland Medical Center, Portland, OR (former Westinghouse, modernized by MontgomeryKONE with Vector fixtures)
Canada
British Columbia
- Vancouver Public Library, Vancouver
- Firehall Branch (1991)
Quebec
- Galeries Rive Nord, Repentigny
- Sears (1999, and was closed in 2018)
Kuwait
- Al Nassar Building, Salmiya, Kuwait (RARE MontgomeryKONE Vector)
Trivia
- Kone's AMD door operator was first invented under this brand (US Patent no.: 5797471[2], expired in 2019), which is currently produced by Wittur Group in their Austria plant[3].
- This company is sometimes nicknamed as MontgomeryKONE by several YouTube elevator enthusiasts.
- The logo used by Australian elevator company EPL Kone after their merger with Kone looked very similar to MontgomeryKONE's logo.
See also
Notes and references
- ↑ Montgomery KONE to become KONE. As KONE corporation consolidates its brand identity worldwide - Montgomery Kone (archived)
- ↑ US 5797471: Linear door drive operator (Archived by Google Patent)
- ↑ 【富嘉花園升降機優化工程】 (Facebook page: KONE Hong Kong)
External links
- Official website (archived)
| Merged elevator companies | |
|---|---|
| Full list of companies | List of elevator and escalator companies |
| Merged companies | LG-OTIS • Kone Marryat Scott • Kone Westinghouse • Montgomery Kone • Otis Fensom • Schindler Haughton • Thyssen Dover • ThyssenKrupp Dongyang • ThyssenKrupp Northern • XJ Schindler |
| Other companies | Third-party elevator maintenance companies |