The Most Popular Home Elevator Companies

By Author: Charles Harper
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Investing in home elevators should be done after due consideration to all the products available and the knowledge of the best that the home elevator market has to offer. Stopping just short of peddling the best in home elevator market, we will suggest all you get in one place. We will work out the detail of the 3 most famous manufacturers.

ThyssenKrupp
ThyssenKrupp is to elevators what Ford is to cars. The company was formed by the merger of two large companies viz: Thyssen AG and Krupp in 1999. It is one of the largest producers of steel in the world and supplies steel to several industries including elevators. Primarily, ThyssenKrupp produces commercial elevators that have much higher load bearing capacities than a home elevator.

They also have an impressive line up of very effective home mobility solutions. In their home elevator segment, Volante, Rise, Evolution, Destiny Hydraulic, Destiny Winding Drum, Lev II and Lev II Builder are the best selling models. Dumbwaiters are also available. Speaking of the home elevators, ThyssenKrupp is truly ...
... the leader. Volante has been awarded with the Product Innovation Award for Energy Efficiency. Besides, Rise elevators by ThyssenKrupp are a pit-less version that has become popular with homeowners who want to retrofit their old homes with an affordable home elevator.

Barring Evolution, all other home elevators by the company have standard load bearing capacity of 950 pounds. Evolution can carry 1400 pounds and is perfect for schools, churches, homes and office buildings with less than 4 floors.

Savaria
Just behind ThyssenKrupp, Savaria holds the second spot in the most popular scale. They have concentrated their portfolio into six product categories, viz: Home Elevators, Wheelchair Lifts, Commercial Elevators, Stair lifts, Van Conversions and Other Products.

In their home elevator segment, they have three products, Infinity, Eclipse and Telecab. Infinity is also available in a heavy-duty alternative to haul loads exceeding 1000 pounds. The other two products each have an optimum carrying capacity of 750 pounds and travel at speeds of 50 feet per minute. For small homes, Telecab is the best option because it requires little construction and blends perfectly with the home decor.

The last in our list of top three home elevator manufacturers is Federal Elevator

Federal Elevator
Federal Elevator started operations in 1988. Since then it has been actively involved in manufacturing commercial and residential elevators. It has 3 different products listed under its Residential products. These are namely Panaroma, Renaissance and Legacy. Most cost effective of all these is Legacy while Panaroma is at the other end of the spectrum. There are minor additions or deletions to the technical specifications of the different products, apart from which they are all same.