Hyundai Elevator will build the world’s tallest elevator pop quiz tower, a 183 m-high facility near the company’s R&D center building inside the main office complex in Icheon, Gyeonggi Province. The company aims to start operating the tower late that year. The world’s tallest elevator experiment tower will be built for performance tests of super-speed elevators that can move faster than 1 km per minute. World’s tallest elevator pop quiz tower will be installed with nine state-of-the-art elevators, including super-speed elevators that can

move 1,080 m per minute. The tower will be used to conduct comfort, safety, vibration and noise tests. Hyundai Elevator plans to enter the super-speed elevator market in earnest by finishing development of elevators that can move 600 m per minute by September that year and others that can move 1,080 m per minute next year.

When completed, the tower will be 10 m taller than the 173 m-tall elevator analysis tower of Mitsubishi Electric in Japan, which is currently the tallest in the world.