KONE Ranked as One of World’s Most Innovative Companies for 2nd Time

For the second year running, KONE has been ranked among the top 50 most innovative companies in the world by the U.S.-based business magazine Forbes. KONE is one of two engineering services sector companies that reached the top 50, and remains the only elevator and escalator company ever to have made it to the top 50.

 

Forbes magazine’s ranking is based on a metric called the “Innovation Premium”. It is a grade bestowed by Forbes upon a company as a measure of the premium of the stock market has placed on the value of the company due to expectations of future innovative products, services, and new markets that will generate even larger income streams.

 

As the Forbes ranking shows, innovation is one of KONE’s key success factors. “KONE is a pioneer within the elevator and escalator industry. We continuously look for opportunities to develop our products, services and processes in order to deliver a better customer and user experience and to improve our performance in eco-efficiency”, says Vu Nguyen, Managing Director for KONE Vietnam.

 

KONE’s innovations are setting a benchmark for the whole elevator and escalator industry. In June 2012 the company launched its new volume elevator offering that will serve the buildings and cities of the future with leading eco-efficient performance, premium ride comfort, award-winning design, and improved space efficiency. With KONE’s solutions, the carbon footprint of buildings can be cut down to an even greater extent. The new KONE MonoSpace® elevators are up to 35 percent more energy efficient than KONE’s previous industry-leading elevator platform.