Otis, the first elevator manufacturer to set up here, began talks with its Vietnamese partners before the lifting of the US trade embargo in February.

The servicing controls that modern elevator manufacturers are putting on their products show up in the maintenance charges.

Otis, the world's largest elevator manufacturer, is a wholly owned subsidiary of the United Technologies Corporation of Hartford.

Today, Otis remains the foremost elevator manufacturer, with sales of $3.3 billion in 1989, up from $1.6 billion in 1980.

Aichi small-elevator manufacturing corporation has a test tower but it is little bit shorter than other big elevator manufacturers.

Some elevator manufacturers may also employ trained staff in technical sales and support engineering departments to assist in the design of elevator and escalator systems.

Typically, these inspectors are employed by insurance companies, elevator manufacturers or architectural firms that specialize in such inspections.

A. B. See first appeared in city directories in Brooklyn in 1884 as an elevator manufacturer.

"Some elevator manufacturers say that one person getting stuck in an elevator a month is an acceptable standard," he said.

Europe's antitrust regulator has accused the world's biggest elevator manufacturers of running a price-fixing cartel in the global elevator and escalator market.