IEE Expo 2020 successfully enlightened 7,512 business visitors

By OEM Update Editorial March 7, 2020 1:38 pm IST

India is the second largest market for elevators and escalators in the world with 80,000 units per annum. Creating an efficient elevator or escalator that matches the country’s infrastructural standards involves highly advanced mechanisms by the components used. The 8^th edition of International Elevator and Escalator (IEE) Expo 2020 reflected the same as it successfully enlightened 7,512 business visitors about the modern technologies used to create high-tech equipment for the vertical transportation sector.

The show kicked off with exhibitors showcasing live demonstrations of technologies like solar ELOS (a type of solar generator for elevators), hydraulic elevators for passenger and goods, pneumatic vacuum elevators, smart elevator control panels with cloud, to name a few. Talking about the progress of the show and its widening profiles, Nakul Mehta, Managing Director, Bharat Bijlee Ltd, shared: “We have seen this show getting bigger and bigger. The profile of companies who visit and as well as exhibit have evolved and there’s a much wider interest and cross section of people who attend to understand the new developments in this edition. Our main goal was to be able to showcase our products, know what’s happening around us and meet companies we can develop business contacts with. I must say, the show has been a fruitful experience.” Following the grand inauguration, SR Nalavade, Superintending Engineer Industries, Energy and Labour Department, Government of Maharashtra expressed his support, stating: “With the amount of infrastructural progress the city is witnessing, we are expecting many lift installations. For this upcoming industry, we are happy to join Messe Frankfurt India on this platform as they have given a common stage to all manufacturers, distributors and dealers for business in a metro city like Mumbai.”

The business visitors attending the show comprised of OEMs, government officials from the infrastructure department, component suppliers and so on. Decision makers from the procurement and technical department from OEM’s like Schindler India Pvt Ltd, Kone Elevator India PvtLtd, OTIS Elevators CoIndia Ltd, Thyssenkrupp Elevator India PvtLtd, FujitecIndia and Toshiba Johnson Elevators (India) Pvt Ltd visited the component manufacturers and suppliers to gain knowledge and source technologies to help assemble the need-of-the-hour elevators.

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