Solae (tower)

Elevator test tower in Inazawa, Japan

Solae

The Mitsubishi Electric–owned Solae Test Tower

Solae

Show map of Aichi Prefecture

Solae (tower) (Japan)

Show map of Japan

General information
Town or city| Inazawa, Aichi
Country| Japan
Coordinates| 35°14′42″N 136°49′9.5″E﻿ / ﻿35.24500°N 136.819306°E﻿ / 35.24500; 136.819306
Construction started| December 26, 2005
Completed| September 26, 2007
Owner| Mitsubishi Electric Building Solutions
Height| 173.0 meters

The Solae is an elevator test tower located in the city of Inazawa, Japan. It is owned by Mitsubishi Electric. The tower is 173 metres (568 ft).[1] When completed in 2007, it was the world's tallest elevator test tower. Since that time, the record has been broken by the Hyundai Eizan Tower (205 meters) in 2009, the Hitachi G1 Tower (213 meters) in 2010 and the Kunshan Test Tower in China (235 meters).[2] This record was once again broken in 2017, with the completion of TK Elevator Test Tower in Rottweil, Germany (246 meters).

## References

[edit]

1. ^ "Japan opens 'tallest lift tower'". BBC News. 3 January 2008.
2. ^ "Putting elevators to test". KONE Corporation. 17 April 2018.

## External links

[edit]

* Media related to SOLAÉ at Wikimedia Commons

* v
* t
* e

Mitsubishi Electric

Mitsubishi

Divisions and
subsidiaries|

| Current|

* Green Cycle Systems Corporation
* Iconics
* Mitsubishi Electric China
* Mitsubishi Electric Europe
* Mitsubishi Electric United States
* Climaveneta

|

Defunct|

* Apricot Computers1
* Diatone1

Joint ventures and
shareholdings|

| Current|

* Mitsubishi Hitachi Home Elevator
* Powerex (50%)
* Renesas Electronics (25.05%)
* Shanghai Mitsubishi Elevator
* Shihlin Electric (20%)
* TMEIC

|

Defunct|

* NEC-Mitsubishi Electric Visual Systems2

Products, services
and standards|

| Current|

* Mitsubishi AAM-4
* Camellia
* CC-Link
* DiamondTouch
* Diamond Vision
* DS2000
* KASUMI
* MelsecNet
* MISTY1
* Privacy Enhanced Computer Display
* Saffron Type System
* Seam carving
* SERVIS-2
* Superbird-C2
* Type 3 Chū-SAM

|

Past|

* Diamondtron
* Electrohome
* MELCOM
* MOLDIS
* Molectron
* Pedion
* Trium

People|

* Mitsuru Matsui

Places|

* Mitsubishi Electric Halle
* Solae
* Tokyo Building

Other|

* Atacama Submillimeter Telescope Experiment
* Mitsubishi Electric Championship at Hualalai
* Mitsubishi Electric Cup
* Mitsubishi Electric Classic
* Mitsubishi Electric Diamond Dolphins
* Mitsubishi Electric Koalas
* Mitsubishi Foundation
* AFF Mitsubishi Electric Cup

* 1Now integrated into other Mitsubishi Electric divisions or business groupings
* 2Sold

* Category
* Commons

This article about a Japanese building- or structure-related topic is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

|

* v
* t
* e

*[v]: View this template
*[t]: Discuss this template
*[e]: Edit this template