CompanyCorporate data

History and company size

  • History

    Start of elevator/
    escalator business

    1000

  • Sales

    FY2023

    1000

    billion yen

  • Major Group companies

    Global

    10

Employees

  • Mitsubishi Electric Building Solutions

    Approx.

    13,000

  • Entire Group
    (incl. domestic and global affiliated companies)

    Approx.

    40,000

    (as of April 1st, 2025)

Manufacturing and sales structure

  • Factories

    0

    Japan: 3
    Overseas: 12

  • Total units
    produced

    (cumulative total, elevators
    and escalators)

    Approx.

    0 million

    units

  • Units maintained

    (elevators and escalators)

    Global Approx.

    0 million

    units

    (as of April 1st, 2025)

Global presence(elevators and escalators)

  • Approx.

    0 countries

(as of April 1st, 2025)

Advanced technology and global production system

Number of patents

  • Japan

    Approx.

    3,600

  • Global

    Approx.

    2,170

*Includes the number of patents acquired by Mitsubishi Electric Corporation’s Building Systems Business Division (as of March 2024)

Number of units (cumulative)

  • Japan elevator/
    escalator production

    Reached

    500,000

    units

    (October 2020)

  • Shanghai Mitsubishi
    Elevator Co., Ltd.
    (SMEC)
    Cumulative
    shipments

    Reached

    1million

    units

    (October 2020)

  • Mitsubishi Elevator Asia
    Co., Ltd. (AMEC)
    Cumulative shipments

    Reached

    200,000

    units

    (March 2021)

Spiral escalators
(manufactured exclusively by us)

Production volume
(Japan and global)

111

units

(as of March 2024)

Spiral escalators move smoothly while tracing exquisite curves. From design to processing to assembly, our company’s unique knowhow is built into them; it’s a technology exclusive to Mitsubishi Electric Building Solutions, and we are the only company in the world that can manufacture them.

Our fastest elevator

Maximum speed

20.5

m/second

*Shanghai Tower

Delivered to the Shanghai Tower—a high-rise building in Shanghai, China—this elevator to the observation deck travels at 20.5 meters per second (73.8 km per hour). It moves from the second basement floor to the observation deck on the 119th floor in approximately 53 seconds. In addition to speed, it also offers safety and world-class ride comfort, quietness, and energy efficiency.