Wednesday, June 4, 2008

Elevator systems sector develops fast: Turkey

With rising quality of life and fast-developing technology, the elevator systems sector has reached a value of 250 million euros. This mainly stems from the fact that elevator systems have now also entered detached houses and villas, after the apartment blocks.

In Turkey, where around 2,000 elevators are sold annually, the percentage of elevator use in residential premises has risen to 15 percent. An indispensable part of new construction projects, the elevator systems sector grew by 12 percent last year, and further growth is expected with the launch of new models that offer easy use. The sector hosts around 1,200 firms operating in production and maintenance, while only five big companies control 20 percent of the sector.

The elevator systems sector goes hand in hand with the construction sector. Thus, the global fluctuations in the real estate sector negatively affect the elevator sector as well, said Baykan Kurtuluş, member of the executive committee of Schindler Türkeli Asansör.
Some 140,000 elevators are in use in Turkey; however only 25 percent of them are controlled by specialists in the field, said Cüneyt Işın, CEO of Kone Türkiye. The technological developments in the sector arise as a result of the new tendencies to make living conditions more comfortable, noted Işın and added that the foremost problem of the sector is to deliver service at optimum conditions.

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