Category Archives: Milestones

Our office relocated to 11 Kaki Bukit Crescent – our wholly owned property.

We completed the massive undertaking of installing 136 elevators at Suntec City, the largest office-retail-MICE project then.

Our company installed four spiral escalators at Wheelock Place (formerly Lane Crawford Place).

The first wide moving walk in Asia, measuring 1.6m wide, was installed at Changi Airport Passenger Terminal 2, along with 105 elevators, escalators and moving walks.

We undertook the largest hospitality-retail project at that time, with the installation of 109 elevators and escalators at Marina Square.

Our company provided the Pan Pacific Hotel with the world’s fastest outdoor observation elevators then at 210m/min (3.5m/sec).   25 units of elevators were installed at Paragon Shopping Centre, and we completed our first modernization of the high speed elevators at DBS Building Tower 1.

The company was renamed Ryoden (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.   We installed 27 elevators, escalators and dumbwaiters at DBS Building Tower 1, including Singapore’s fastest elevator then at 450m/min (7.5m/sec).

The China Engineers-Ryoden (S) Pte. Ltd. was established as a joint venture between Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Mitsubishi Corporation and local shareholders.

The Shangri-La Hotel Tower Wing was outfitted with 11 elevators and escalators.

We installed 100 elevators, escalators and dumbwaiters, including 19 units at Mandarin Hotel Orchard – then Singapore’s tallest building at 36 storeys.