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Kone, the Glossary

Kone Oyj (officially known as KONE and trading as KONE Corporation) is an elevator engineering company employing over 60,000 personnel across 60 countries worldwide.^[1]

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1910 establishments in Finland
Companies in the OMX Helsinki 25
Companies in the OMX Nordic 40
Construction and civil engineering companies of Finland
Elevator manufacturers
Escalator manufacturers
Manufacturing companies based in Espoo
Manufacturing companies established in 1910

AGCO

AGCO Corporation is an American agricultural machinery manufacturer headquartered in Duluth, Georgia, United States.

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Anti-competitive practices

Anti-competitive practices are business or government practices that prevent or reduce competition in a market.

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Antti Herlin (born 14 November 1956) is a Finnish billionaire businessman and the chairman of the Finnish KONE Corporation, as well as the richest person in Finland – as of May 2021 Forbes reported his net worth as $7.0 billion, naming him the 404th richest person in the world.

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ASEA

Allmänna Svenska Elektriska Aktiebolaget (English translation: General Swedish Electrical Limited Company; Swedish abbreviation: ASEA) was a Swedish industrial company.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England.

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Brushed DC electric motor

A brushed DC electric motor is an internally commutated electric motor designed to be run from a direct current power source and utilizing an electric brush for contact.

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Carbon-fiber tape

Carbon-fiber tape is a flat material made of carbon fiber.

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Cargotec

Cargotec Oyj (trading internationally as Cargotec Corporation) is a Finnish company that makes cargo handling machinery for ships, ports, terminals and local distribution. Kone and Cargotec are companies in the OMX Helsinki 25, companies listed on Nasdaq Helsinki and Finnish brands.

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Cartel

A cartel is a group of independent market participants who collude with each other as well as agreeing not to compete with each other in order to improve their profits and dominate the market.

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Chair (officer)

The chair, also chairman, chairwoman, or chairperson, is the presiding officer of an organized group such as a board, committee, or deliberative assembly.

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Chief executive officer

A chief executive officer (CEO) (chief executive (CE), or managing director (MD) in the UK) is the highest officer charged with the management of an organization especially a company or nonprofit institution.

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Elevator

An elevator (North American English) or lift (British English) is a machine that vertically transports people or freight between levels.

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Engineering

Engineering is the practice of using natural science, mathematics, and the engineering design process to solve technical problems, increase efficiency and productivity, and improve systems.

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Epsilon Composite

Epsilon Composite is a French company created in 1987 by Stephane LULL, its current CEO.

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Escalator

An escalator is a moving staircase which carries people between floors of a building or structure.

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Espoo

Espoo (Esbo) is a city in Finland.

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Finland in World War II

Finland participated in the Second World War initially in a defensive war against the Soviet Union, followed by another, this time offensive, war against the Soviet Union acting in concert with Nazi Germany and then finally fighting alongside the Allies against Germany.

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Finnish language

Finnish (endonym: suomi or suomen kieli) is a Finnic language of the Uralic language family, spoken by the majority of the population in Finland and by ethnic Finns outside of Finland.

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Forbes

Forbes is an American business magazine founded by B. C. Forbes in 1917 and owned by Hong Kong-based investment group Integrated Whale Media Investments since 2014.

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Heikki H. Herlin

Heikki Hugo Herlin (7 February 1901 – 21 August 1989) was a Finnish engineer, industrialist and vuorineuvos.

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Helsinki

Helsinki is the capital and most populous city in Finland.

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Hydrauliska Industri AB

Hydrauliska Industri AB (Hiab) is a Swedish manufacturer of loader cranes, demountable container handlers, forestry cranes, truck-mounted forklifts and tail lifts.

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Hyvinkää

Hyvinkää (Hyvinge) is a town in Finland, located in the southern interior of the country.

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Industrial action

Industrial action (British English) or job action (American English) is a temporary show of dissatisfaction by employees—especially a strike or slowdown or working to rule—to protest against bad working conditions or low pay and to increase bargaining power with the employer and intended to force the employer to improve them by reducing productivity in a workplace.

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Israel

Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in the Southern Levant, West Asia.

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Jeddah Tower

Jeddah Tower or Burj Jeddah (برج جدة), previously known as Kingdom Tower (برج المملكة), is a skyscraper construction project in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

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Justia

Justia is an American website specializing in legal information retrieval.

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Keighley News

The Keighley News is a weekly newspaper based in Keighley, West Yorkshire, England.

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Keilaniemi

Keilaniemi (Kägeludden) is a district in the south-eastern part of Espoo, Finland.

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Konecranes

Konecranes Oyj is a Finnish company, headquartered in Hyvinkää, which specializes in the manufacture and service of cranes and lifting equipment as well as the service of machine tools. Kone and Konecranes are companies in the OMX Helsinki 25, companies listed on Nasdaq Helsinki and Finnish brands.

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List of elevator manufacturers

This is a list of companies that manufacture elevators. Kone and list of elevator manufacturers are elevator manufacturers.

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Matti Alahuhta

Matti Juhani Alahuhta (born 22 June 1952 in Alahärmä, Finland) was the President & CEO of KONE Corporation (2005–2014).

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Mitsubishi Electric

is a Japanese multinational electronics and electrical equipment manufacturing company headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. Kone and Mitsubishi Electric are elevator manufacturers and escalator manufacturers.

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Moline, Illinois

Moline is a city located in Rock Island County, Illinois, United States.

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Montgomery Elevator

Montgomery Elevator Company was a vertical transportation company founded in 1892, but entered the elevator business in 1910, acquired Roelofson Elevator of Galt, Ontario in the early 1960s and operated it as its Canadian Division. Kone and Montgomery Elevator are elevator manufacturers and escalator manufacturers.

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Moving walkway

A moving walkway, also known as an autowalk, moving pavement, moving sidewalk, people-mover, travolator, or travelator (British English), is a slow-moving conveyor mechanism that transports people across a horizontal or inclined plane over a short to medium distance.

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Nasdaq Helsinki

Nasdaq Helsinki, formerly known as the Helsinki Stock Exchange (Helsingin Pörssi, Helsingforsbörsen), is a stock exchange located in Helsinki, Finland.

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New York City

New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Newsweek

Newsweek is a weekly news magazine.

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Nokia

Nokia Corporation (natively Nokia Oyj in Finnish and Nokia Abp in Swedish, referred to as Nokia) is a Finnish multinational telecommunications, information technology, and consumer electronics corporation, originally established as a pulp mill in 1865. Kone and Nokia are companies in the OMX Helsinki 25, companies in the OMX Nordic 40, companies listed on Nasdaq Helsinki, Finnish brands and manufacturing companies based in Espoo.

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Osakeyhtiö

("stock company"), often abbreviated to Oy, is the term for a Finnish limited company (e.g., Ltd, LLC, or GmbH).

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Otis Worldwide

Otis Worldwide Corporation (branded as the Otis Elevator Company, its former legal name) is an American company that develops, manufactures and markets elevators, escalators, moving walkways, and related equipment. Kone and Otis Worldwide are elevator manufacturers and escalator manufacturers.

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Pekka Herlin

Pekka Aksel Herlin (15 July 1932 – 4 April 2003) was a Finnish businessman, the president of the elevator and escalator maker Kone from 1964.

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Pultrusion

Pultrusion is a continuous process for manufacture of fibre-reinforced plastics with constant cross-section.

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Quad-City Times

The Quad-City Times is a daily morning newspaper based in Davenport, Iowa, and circulated throughout the Quad Cities metropolitan area, including Davenport, Bettendorf and Scott County in Iowa; and Moline, East Moline, Rock Island, and Rock Island County in Illinois.

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Reuters

Reuters is a news agency owned by Thomson Reuters.

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Robert MacGregor (engineer)

Robert MacGregor was a British engineer, who, during the 1920s, concerned over unnecessary losses of North Sea colliers, developed the first steel hatch cover.

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Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia, officially the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), is a country in West Asia and the Middle East.

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Schindler Group

Schindler Holding Ltd. is a Swiss multinational company which manufactures escalators, moving walkways, and elevators worldwide, founded in Switzerland in 1874. Kone and Schindler Group are elevator manufacturers and escalator manufacturers.

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Socialist Party (England and Wales)

The Socialist Party (Plaid Sosialaidd Cymru) is a Trotskyist political party in England and Wales.

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The Economist

The Economist is a British weekly newspaper published in printed magazine format and digitally.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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ThyssenKrupp

ThyssenKrupp AG (stylized as thyssenkrupp) is a German industrial engineering and steel production multinational conglomerate. Kone and ThyssenKrupp are elevator manufacturers and escalator manufacturers.

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Tracking system

A tracking system, also known as a locating system, is used for the observing of persons or objects on the move and supplying a timely ordered sequence of location data for further processing.

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United Press International

United Press International (UPI) is an American international news agency whose newswires, photo, news film, and audio services provided news material to thousands of newspapers, magazines, radio and television stations for most of the 20th century until its eventual decline beginning in the early 1980s.

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