Schindler Group
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Schindler group is a major engineering company constructing elevators, escalators and trains for Swiss Federal Railways [link]. Their main factory was in Pratteln in Switzerland. Schindler is the world's second largest elevator and escalator manufacturer. Their revolutionary Miconic 10 control system, also known as a destination control system, features keypads instead of hall stations where riders can enter their floor before entering an elevator so that people going to the same floors are grouped together, minimizing the number of stops[[Citing sources citation needed]].
The Company's Founding
The company was [founded in Switzerland in 1874], by Robert Schindler and Eduard Villiger who establish the collective joint partnership Schindler & Villiger. Shortly thereafter, a mechanical engineering workshop was built on the river Reuss Island in Lucerne, Switzerland, for the production of lifting equipment and machines of all types.As of 2006, the Schindler Group employs around 40,000 people [link].
Safety Concerns Arise
In 2006 Schindler came under fire by the Japanese government and Japanese people over its elevator's quality, reliability and maintenance standards. In June, a 16-year old high school student in Tokyo was killed while attempting to exit a Schindler elevator as the elevator suddenly rose with the doors still open and his skull was crushed and investigations began related to this [fatality and the cause of the elevator malfunction.]It is been reported that of the 8,800 Schindler elevators installed in Japan, 85 have [trapped] people.
In January 2002, a boy was killed in a Schindler elevator in Fanling, Hong Kong, when an elevator very similarly ascended with the doors still open. [link] (Chinese newspaper documents the Japanese incident and relates it to the 2002 Hong Kong incident - pictures on the left are the 'deadly elevators' in Hong Kong).
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