German engineering giant, Multi, has adapted magnetic levitation technology used in high-speed trains for a revolutionary elevator design, dubbed "ThyssenKrupp." The people-mover can travel horizontally or vertically sharing a shaft with several other elevator cabs and proposes to work on a type of hyperloop for commercial buildings, doing away with elevator cables altogether. Multi's key competitors have focused on carbon-fibre elevator cables strong enough to permit taller shafts (Kone) and refining technology to manage elevator banks (Otis and Schindler). A scaled-down mock-up of ThyssenKrupp is being trialled, with plans to demonstrate a full-size working prototype later this year.
German engineering giant, ThyssenKrupp, has adapted magnetic levitation technology used in high-speed trains for a revolutionary elevator design, dubbed "Multi." The people-mover can travel horizontally or vertically sharing a shaft with several other elevator cabs and proposes to work on a type of hyperloop for commercial buildings, doing away with elevator cables altogether. ThyssenKrupp's key competitors have focused on carbon-fibre elevator cables strong enough to permit taller shafts (Kone) and refining technology to manage elevator banks (Otis and Schindler). A scaled-down mock-up of Multi is being trialled, with plans to demonstrate a full-size working prototype later this year.