History

Installation of our first elevator (Japan)

Installation of our first passenger elevator (Japan)

Installation of our first gearless elevator (Japan)

Installation of our first escalator (Japan)

Installation of our first transparent escalator (Japan)

Hitachi Building Services Co., Ltd. Founded in Japan(currently known as Hitachi Building Systems Co., Ltd.)

Installation of direct-current gearless elevator with instant-reservation-type fully-automatic group control system (Japan)

Installation of our first moving sidewalk (Japan)

Founding of Hitachi Elevator Engineering Co., (Hong Kong) Ltd.

Completion of a 90m-tall elevator research tower (Japan)

Installation of our elevators, with Japan’s fastest speed at the time of 300m/min, in Japan’s first skyscraper (Kasumigaseki Building, Japan)

Installation of a double-deck hydraulic elevator with a capacity of 260 passengers at Japan World Exposition, Osaka 1970 (Japan)

Completion of the world’s first instant-reservation-type fully-automatic group control elevator, which reserved and indicated the elevator immediately after it was called for at the hall floor (Japan)

Hitachi Elevator Enginnering (Singapore) Pte.Ltd.
found (Currently known as Hitachi Elevator Asia Pte.Ltd)

Installation of our elevators with the world’s fastest speed at the time of 540m/min (Japan)

Founding of Hitachi Elevator Engineering (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd.

Launch of operation of the incline elevator with Japan’s longest travel at the time
(Atami Pasania Club, Japan)

Ultra-mini escalator registered in the Guinness Book of Records
(Kawasaki More’s, Japan)

Installation of Japan’s most high-lift escalators at the time (34 m in lifting height)
(Escahill Naruto, Japan)

Founding of Siam-Hitachi Elevator Co., Ltd.（Thailand）

Development of elevator with the world’s fastest speed at the time of 810 m/min

Founding of Guangzhou Hitachi ElevatorCo., Ltd.（China）
(currently known as Hitachi Elevator (China) Co., Ltd.)

Installation of 300m/min double-deck elevators
(Roppongi Hills, Japan)

Installation of one of the world’s largest double-deck elevators with an ultra-high speed
(Shanghai World Financial Center, China)

Founding of Hitachi Lift India Pvt. Ltd.

Completion of a 213m-tall elevator research tower (G1TOWER, Japan)

Completion of a 172m-tall elevator research tower
(China)

Installation of the ultra-fast elevator with the Middle East’s fastest speed at the time of 600 m/min (Al Hamra Mixed-Use Complex, Kuwait)

Founding of Hitachi Elevator Philippines Corporation

Installation of high-speed, high-capacity elevator providing access to observation deck at 450meters from ground of the tallest tower in Japan.
(TOKYO SKYTREE®, Japan)

Founding of Hitachi Elevator (Myanmar) Co., Ltd.

The world’s fastest elevator speed of 1,200 m/min recorded at the occasion of a test run
(Guangzhou CTF Finance Centre, China)

Founding of Hitachi Elevator (Cambodia) Co., Ltd.

Founding of Hitachi Elevator Vietnam Co., Ltd.

Founding of Hitachi Elevator (Thailand) Co., Ltd. (Sales / Installation / Maintenance Divisions separated from Siam-Hitachi Elevator Co., Ltd.)

The world’s fastest elevator speed of 1,260 m/min recorded
(Guangzhou CTF Finance Centre, China)

Founding of Hitachi Elevator Laos Co., Ltd.

The world’s fastest elevator^※1 speed of 1,260 m/min^※2 certified by Guinness World Records
※1 Official record name: The fastest lift (elevator)
※2 1,260 m/min = 75.6 km/h (47 mi/h) = 21 m/s

Completion of a 288.8meters tall elevator research tower (China)

Made Yungtay Engineering Co., Ltd. a consolidated subsidiary

Made Yungtay Engineering Co., Ltd. a wholly owned subsidiary and changed its company name to Hitachi Yungtay Elevator Co., Ltd.