TOSHIBA: Toshiba to provide world's fastest elevators for world's tallest building.

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M2 PRESSWIRE-29 April 1999-TOSHIBA: Toshiba to provide world's fastest elevators for world's tallest building (C)1994-99 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:260499 Tokyo -- Toshiba Corporation today announced that it has been selected to provide the world's fastest elevators for the world's tallest building.

The ultra-high speed elevators are part of a comprehensive package of 63 elevators and 34 escalators that Toshiba and its Taiwan distributor, GFC LTD., will supply to the Taipei Financial Centre, a new tower complex in the heart of Taiwan's capital, scheduled for completion 2002. The Taipei Financial Centre will rise 508 metres above Taipei's skyline and will have 101 floor above ground and 5 basement. It will house companies, offices, department stores and...