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70-PLUS KONE ELEVATORS FOR GRAND PARIS EXPRESS METRO

KONE has been selected by Société du Grand Paris (SGP) to provide more than 70 elevators to Line 15 of the Grand Paris Express metro. The 33-km line will pass through 22 municipalities and serve more than 1 million residents as it makes 300,000 trips per day. Working with SGP, KONE will deliver and install a mix of opaque and transparent panoramic MonoSpace® units with energy-efficient EcoDisc® traction technology. The order was booked in the second quarter of 2020, and the line is expected be operational in 2025. "We're very proud to be involved in this impressive project. . . along this new high-capacity line in one of the busiest metros in the world," Pierre Liautaud, executive vice president for KONE South Europe, Middle East and Africa, said

Image credit: courtesy of SGP and Dominque Perrault Architecture

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