Kone won the 57-elevator Jeddah contract, the details of which are closely guarded, in part because of its invention of UltraRope.
...Kone’s inventions have helped it become Finland’s largest nonfinancial enterprise.
...But one area where the company has lagged is speed.
...No matter how quickly elevators go up, they all have to come down at about the same speed—no more than about 10 meters per second—because the inner ear doesn’t adjust to descent as well as to ascent. And then there’s another constraint that Fortune says companies don’t like to talk about: bladder compression. “Older people can wet their pants if they come down too fast,”
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