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OTIS INSTALLING 53 UNITS IN MANCHESTER AIRPORT
Otis UK announced on November 1 that it began installing lifts, escalators and moving walks into the new Manchester (U.K.) Airport Terminal 2 extension. The facility is undergoing a GBP1-billion (US$1.3-billion) investment program to better its passenger experience and infrastructure capacity. Passengers will use 38 Gen2® Stream lifts that carry up to 33 people each at a top speed of 3 mps. Otis will also install three goods lifts, eight 0.5-mps escalators and four moving walks. Each of the latter is longer than 50 m and will also travel at 0.5 mps. The work, scheduled to be completed in 2020, will enable an estimated 35 million passengers to use the hub every year, increasing capacity more than seven million than current. Bertrand Rotagnon, Otis UK Director of New Equipment, said, “This job from contractor Laing O’Rourke lays the foundation for a strategic footprint in the airport market."
Image: Otis Elevator UK
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