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2008 Annual Report 17
Less weight.
Otis’ Gen2 elevators replace conventional steel ropes with a flexible coated steel belt, resulting in a compact elevator system that does not require a machine room. The belts are stronger than tradi-
tional cables and last up to three times longer. The Gen2 system reduces energy use by up to 50 percent compared with conventional systems and up to 75 percent when combined with Otis ReGen
drives, which feed energy generated by descending elevators back into the building, lowering overall building costs. More than 150,000 units have been sold worldwide. The Beijing South Railway
Station, one of the largest in Asia, is equipped with 116 Otis elevators and escalators, including 36 Gen2 elevators.
Opposite page: Engineers at Hamilton Sundstrand’s APSIF laboratory in
Rockford, Ill., testing the performance of critical systems for Boeing’s
revolutionary 787 Dreamliner (left). Solid oxide fuel cell technology in
development at UTRC in East Hartford, Conn. (right).
This page: The Beijing South Railway Station, Beijing. Otis was selected
for this infrastructure project to provide its energy efficient and environ-
mentally sound products, such as the Gen2 elevator.