TKE: Expert in Elevators, Escalators, Moving Walks & Boarding Bridges

We improve the quality of urban life around the world through our passion for moving people.

TK Elevator (TKE) blends safety, reliability, and innovation into precision-engineered solutions that help our customers ensure smooth people movement. Our dedicated teams engineer, install, and service the most comprehensive suite of mobility solutions - elevators, escalators, moving walks, passenger boarding bridges, and home lifts - with customer and passenger care in mind. Our fresh thinking has led to breakthrough products, digital solutions, and service programs aimed at moving accessibility beyond conventional means.

Engineering pioneer. Service at our center. We are moved by what moves the world.

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Customer success stories

Moving more than 1.5 billion people daily through cities and airports.

We value deep customer relationships in solving their unique challenges to ensure universal accessibility. Explore how TKE is shaping the future with leading-edge solutions that anticipate the demands of modern society.

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Riyadh Metro

Dover, England

Port of Dover

Denmark

Danske Statsbaner (DSB)

Istanbul, Turkey

Istanbul’s MONA94 project

Chongqing Jiangbei, China

Chongqing Jiangbei International Airport (CKG)

Kuwait City, Kuwait

Kuwait International Airport (KWI)

New York, USA

One World Trade Center

Toronto, Canada

Lester B. Pearson International Airport

Malmö, Sweden

Turning Torso

Shanghai, China

Shanghai World Financial Center

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Our leading-edge solutions

We lead the industry with the widest product portfolio designed for exceptional buildings and expanding urban areas. Our unique digital solutions portfolio, multi-sector experience, and dedication to Universal Service adds value to all types of buildings and spaces.

Dynamic High-Rise by TK Elevator

Build beyond limits

HELIX

Dynamic and Future-proof

TWIN – Our unique elevator system

2 cabins, 1 shaft, 0 crowds

Say hello to EOX

Our eco-efficient and digitally native elevator

AGILE – Passenger focus

Make every ride an experience

MAX – Improve service quality

Optimize every building´s potential

MULTI – The world’s first rope-free elevator

Moving multiple cars in a single shaft vertically and horizontally

MAX Automate

World’s first fully remote-operated hub

Universal Service by TKE

ANY BRAND
Our 25,000+ technicians are trained and supplied to service multi-brand vertical transportation equipment to the highest industry standards.

ANY PLACE
We’ve invested in building one of the industry’s most comprehensive worldwide local coverage network to service customers anywhere.

ANY TIME
As a trusted partner, we’re available 24/7/365 to ensure maximum possible portfolio-wide uptime via remote and on-site support.

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TKE launches Dynamic High‑Rise by TK Elevator

Dynamic High‑Rise by TK Elevator introduces a new, digitally native approach to high‑rise mobility—designed to elevate uptime, flexibility and efficiency in the world’s most demanding buildings.

Powered by embedded AI, advanced chip technology and cloud connectivity, the portfolio enables smarter traffic management, predictive maintenance and seamless integration with building systems. Expert support from TKE’s Dynamic High‑Rise Competence Center and dedicated high‑rise installation teams ensures tailored solutions for even the most complex projects.

HELIX, TKE’s new digitally native high‑rise elevator, is the first platform launched under this new strategy. AI‑enabled and cloud‑connected, HELIX is engineered to maximize uptime, availability and energy efficiency, delivering smoother, smarter and more reliable journeys. It expands TKE’s Dynamic High‑Rise family alongside TWIN, DOUBLE DECK and Shaft Climber—setting a new benchmark for future‑ready building mobility.

world’s first fully remote-operated hub with MAX Automate; launch of Light Assist for stairlifts

Adolfo Suárez Madrid-Barajas Airport becomes the first major airport globally to remotely operate Passenger Boarding Bridges (PBBs) across five terminals. MAX Automate redefines digital airport operations by enhancing efficiency, sustainability, and safety standards.

The Light Assist solution for our stairlifts illuminates the seat, and footrest, setting a new benchmark in home mobility by enhancing safety, comfort, and visibility, guiding users for secure and confident stairlift operation.

TKE LAUNCHES UNIVERSAL SERVICE

Universal Service by TK Elevator, an industry-leading support platform, brings flexible (any brand) and comprehensive elevator service coverage with prompt assistance anywhere in the world.

TKE UNVEILS AGILE TERMINAL DESIGN; LAUNCHES MAX HOME & EOX RENEW

Our next-gen AGILE Destination Controls terminal showcases our dedication to design and customer-centric service with an intuitive display for maximum convenience and seamless integration with modern building aesthetics.

Our MAX HOME cloud-based solution for predictive maintenance of stairlifts provides peace of mind for users with real-time notifications and diagnostics that ensure maintenance is performed when required to maximize availability.

Our flexible EOX Renew elevator brings future-proof access to older low- and mid-rise residential buildings.

TKE LAUNCHES EOX; INTRODUCES APRONVISION

The new EOX eco-efficient and digitally native elevator platform contributes to energy efficiency [ E ], puts customers at the centre and goes full circle [ O ] on the needs of everyone who designs, constructs, manages or uses a building, and digitally transforms [ X ] the everyday elevator.

ApronVision, advances fully automated and integrated Apron Operations Systems by enabling full automation and digitalization to the apron, ensuring maximum safety and efficiency, highest turnaround performance, integration with bridge automation technologies, and real-time data of the apron.

TKE launches global smart spare parts strategy

A new state-of-the-art warehouse in Madrid reduces waiting times for elevator spare parts by 20% and saves 10% of travel by service technicians. The initiative includes a sustainability plan for recycling, emissions reduction and protection of the environment.

TKE unveils robotics interface platform; Presents Remote Control Systems for PBBs

The state-of-the-art interface allows robots to move freely regardless of building size or height and reinforces the commitment to creating smarter building transportation solutions through advanced engineering.

Also, Airport Solutions showcases its latest innovation, the Remote Control System, which allows passenger boarding bridges to be safely controlled by an operator at a remote post.

TKE introduces elevator product lines for low- and mid-rise buildings in Europe; Launches VR Showrooms

New ‘synergy’ and ‘evolution’ elevator families save energy and provide maximum space to improve urban mobility by delivering customized mobility solutions.

In addition, new virtual reality showrooms across Asia and the Middle East give visitors an immersive view of new MULTI and TWIN elevators to experience the new transport solutions from the inside out.

TKE launches AGILE, HoloLinc; Opens Rottweil; Presents MULTI

AGILE enables riders to reach their destination faster by efficiently allocating people to elevators by floor. Allows real-time passenger flow adjustment and personalized touchscreens and dial-up terminals.

The new HoloLinc process enables customers to view a stairlift solution in their own homes and get their customized solution up to 4x faster.

TKE opens the iconic Rottweil test tower building, which boasts Germany’s highest observation deck at 232m and is home to the first functional unit of MULTI, the world’s first ropeless and bi-directional elevator.

TKE introduces MAX

MAX, the elevator industry’s first real-time, cloud-based predictive maintenance service solution paves the way for game-changing elevator service.

TKE launches ACCEL

ACCEL, a new moving walkway system that helps alleviate traffic congestion at metro stations and airports helps foster faster urban mobility.

TKE introduces iwalk

iwalk showcases a radical new engineering approach to moving walks with the first pitless modular concept that addresses most conventional design restrictions and offers new possibilities for architects and owners.

TKE opens Innovation Center in Spain

The TK Elevator Innovation Center in Gijón, Spain, becomes home to our most advanced real-scale prototyping laboratory, fostering innovation investment in our modern mobility solutions.

TKE helps passengers board largest aircraft

Airbus and airlines partner with TKE to design and install highly engineered passenger boarding bridges at key airports for the world’s largest passenger aircraft, the Airbus A380. The plane measures as long as two blue whales and as tall as five giraffes.

TKE installs first TWIN elevator

TWIN, the world’s first elevator with two independent cabins in one shaft, finds its first of many homes at the University of Stuttgart.

TKE installs world’s longest escalator

At 100 meters long and a 30% slope, the world’s longest escalator at that time goes into operation at the Namesti Miru subway station in Prague, thanks to TKE.

Our beginnings

Our history dates to the 1860s and 1880s with our predecessor companies in Hamburg and Stuttgart, Germany and their first vertical people conveyor, the Paternoster, in 1890 and Germany’s first escalator in 1906. In the 1950s, former Thyssen Industrie acquired a stake in these companies.

After 1970, acquisitions of elevator manufacturers in Germany and Western Europe, and construction of an elevator factory in Neuhausen, advanced our elevator and escalator innovation.

Our solutions for your applications

We support the diverse needs of architects, consultants, developers, and constructors with innovative, reliable, and sustainable mobility solutions. From efficient office spaces and comfortable residential buildings to seamless transportation hubs and specialized healthcare facilities, TKE elevates every space.