Hanover, PA Elevator production facility
Schindler's state-of-the-art facility located in Hanover, Pennsylvania, focuses on the fabrication of components visible to customers, such as doors, entrances, walls, and jambs. It is the first elevator manufacturing facility in North America to achieve LEED Gold certification from the U.S. Green Building Council.
Take a tour of our Hanover elevator production facility
The Hanover facility focuses on the fabrication of high-quality elevator components such as doors, entrances, and cab interiors. It also contains the company’s Order Consolidation Center (OCC), an order fulfillment warehouse, which helps achieve lead times that are among the shortest in the industry for customer delivery.
The building features:
- Photovoltaic solar panels that generate 1.5 million watts of renewable energy, providing approximately half of the building’s total annual power consumption
- Closed-loop recycling water discharge system with zero industrial waste
- Storm water management that eliminates contamination
- Energy efficient LED lighting fixtures
- A vehicle fleet that is 88% electric
- Electric car charging stations for employees and guests
- A forklift fleet that has transitioned from fuel to an electric fleet
- LEED Gold certification
- Water-based aqueous wash pre-treatment systems and organic-based degreasers that replace traditional chemical products to reduce the environmental impact of our production
- No waste to landfill
- No industrial manufacturing air permits, eliminating air pollutants from manufacturing to improve local air quality