German elevator specialists thyssenkrupp just inaugurated a new plant and test tower in Zhongshan City, Guangdong Province, China, only months after opening another high-tech test tower near the company's headquarters in Rottweil.
At a height of 248 meters (or 31 floors above ground), the Zhongshan test tower even slightly surpasses the (not so) old structure in Germany. Both facilities feature the company's new rope-less elevator system, MULTI, which can go up, down and also sideways.
The 13-shaft tower is in for some heavy-duty testing: An Active Mass Damper system can both reduce the extent of tower swing caused by changes in weather conditions, and also simulate extreme seismic and meteorological conditions, like earthquakes and typhoons.
It comes as no surprise that China is thyssenkrupp's largest market in Asia: The company had sales of 17.8 percent in China in the last financial year.
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