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Otis selected for World Trade Center Transportation Hub

Otis Elevator Company is providing 21 elevators and 47 escalators to the World Trade Center Port Authority Trans-Hudson (PATH) Transportation Hub in lower Manhattan, New York. Otis is a unit of United Technologies Corp.

"Otis is proud to take part in the reconstruction at the World Trade Center," said Otis President Didier Michaud-Daniel. "Our proven products and experience will be integral in providing safe and dependable transportation to the hub's expected 250,000 pedestrians every day."

The elevators and escalators will help connect passengers to existing and future transportation services, including World Trade Center office towers, the Memorial and Museum, Hudson River ferry terminals, the World Financial Center, PATH trains, and 11 subway lines, as well as approximately 200,000 square feet of retail facilities. The hub is scheduled to open mid-2014.

Otis Elevator Company is the worlds largest manufacturer and maintainer of people-moving products including elevators, escalators,' and moving walkways. With headquarters in Farmington, Connecticut, Otis employs 60,000 people, offers products and services in more than 200 countries and territories and maintains 1.7 million elevators and escalators worldwide. United Technologies Corp., based in Hartford, Connecticut, is a diversified company providing high technology products and services to the building and aerospace industries.