Founded in 1853 in the United States, it is a world-famous brand in the elevator industry, a global professional manufacturer and service provider of elevators, escalators and moving walks, and is committed to researching/developing/repairing/modernizing elevators/escalators/moving walks and other transportation systems
At the Crystal Palace in New York, a crowd erupted in exclamation as a gentleman stood on a lifted lift and ordered his assistants to cut the only cable that hung the lift...... However, the lift stopped after descending a few feet. It was the safety gear he invented that worked and stopped the lift from falling to the ground. "Attention, everyone, everything is safe!" The gentleman shouted excitedly.
This gentleman is Eliza A. Graves · Otis, the founder of Otis Elevator Company. It was Mr. Otis's invention of safety gear that started the history of safety elevators. His invention allowed buildings – and the architect's imagination – to rise upwards into the sky, breathing new life into the city's skyline.
Mr. Otis sold his first safety elevator in 1853. For more than 150 years, Otis has been a leader in the elevator industry. Today, Otis Elevator employs 60,000 people in every country and serves customers around the world. It is the efforts of these 60,000 employees that make the people who use our elevators have no safety concerns, and our elevator passengers understand that the connotation of Otis elevators is far richer than Otis's more than 150 years of commitment to safety and quality......
Otis Elevator is the largest elevator company in the world. For more than 150 years, Otis has been researching, developing, manufacturing, installing, repairing, maintaining, and modernizing elevators, escalators, moving walks, and other transportation systems. At present, Otis elevators operate in more than 200 countries and regions. Transports the global population every five days. Of the 20 landmark buildings in the world, 12 use Otis elevators. Whether for architects, contractors, developers or owners, Otis is the world's top elevator brand.
While we are strong in manufacturing, installing, renewing and maintaining elevators, escalators and moving walks, the core philosophy of our business is to solve real problems for our customers. Whether it's the most sophisticated elevator system for the world's tallest building or the simple elevator for a two-story villa, we leave no stone unturned to provide our customers with the safest and most reliable solution.
Otis has 62,000 employees worldwide, 53,000 of whom work outside the United States.
Revenues in 2006 amounted to $10.3 billion, 80 percent of which came from other global companies outside the United States.
The main production bases are located in the United States, Europe and Asia, and the products cover more than 200 countries and regions around the world. A total of 1.9 million Otis elevators and 130,000 Otis escalators are in operation in various countries and regions around the world.
Otis Global Engineering Centers are located in China, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Japan, South Korea, Spain and the United States. Otis' two tallest elevator test towers are located in Japan, Shibayama (505 feet or 154 meters above ground; 89 feet or 27 meters underground), and Bristol, Connecticut, USA (384 feet or 117 meters above ground).
Otis in China
More than 100 years ago, China's first elevator was installed by Otis in Shanghai. At present, the group's holding company, Otis Elevator (China) Investment Co., Ltd., has nine joint ventures in Tianjin, Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Hangzhou, Xi'an, Suzhou, Dalian and Chengdu, and operates and manages the four major elevator brands of Otis, Xizi, Dalian Xingma Elevator (SIGMA) and Jiangnan Express, producing, selling, installing, repairing and renovating elevators, escalators, sidewalks, Screen door and shuttle system is the largest manufacturer and service provider of elevators and escalators in China.
As a leading manufacturer in China's elevator industry, China Otis Elevator Group has been providing a complete set of high-quality products and perfect services to Chinese customers with world-class manufacturing and technical capabilities. At the same time, with its never-ending spirit of innovation, we continue to develop innovative and revolutionary products that meet customer needs. From the Beijing Fortune Center to the Shanghai Oriental Pearl TV Tower, from the Tianjin TV Tower to the Guangzhou Metro Station, from the Shenzhou Launch Tower to the Three Gorges Project of the Yangtze River, from the first escalator system built for the underground passage of the Xi'an commercial center to the Carrefour supermarket that penetrates into the lives of ordinary people. China Otis Elevator Group provides perfect solutions for the construction of major cities in China.
