近几年，亚洲房地产业发展迅猛，这使得世界知名电梯公司——通力公司加大在亚洲市场的投入，并致力于高能效产品的开发。目前，中国已经成为通力第一大市场，印度紧随其后。日前，通力又为印度一座75层高的建筑提供了10台高速电梯（速度可达7米每秒）。通力公司CEOMatti Alahuhta日前接受了印度媒体“TOI. Excerpts”的访问。Matti Alahuhta于2009年被任命为通力欧洲区总裁。

　　问：您对全球建筑市场怎么看待？相比之下，印度的建筑市场前景如何？

　　答：亚太地区的建筑业发展迅猛。2008年经济衰退时期之后，北美和欧洲的建筑业都陷入了低谷，不过中北欧地区的商业住宅还有所发展。加拿大和墨西哥的建筑业也有所起色。人们都将目光投放在了亚太地区，特别是中国和印度，这两国的建筑市场未来20年内都将持续增长。两国的城市化进程飞快。2001年，两国共有城市人口2.9亿，2010年就达到了3.5亿，2030年，将预计达到5.9亿。

　　问：中国市场到底有多大？印度市场又如何？

　　答：我们很重视中印两国的市场。过去五年，通力在中国发展良好，成为中国电梯市场占有量排名前四的电梯公司，而在印度，我们排在第二。我们在印度金奈的制造工厂有2500名员工，其中1000人是工程师。印度在全球的工程学和研究方面在世界占有重要地位。

　　问：通力如何在与其他电梯公司的竞争中处于优势地位？

　　答：过去6年，我们专注于为顾客提供优质服务，同时发展网上业务功能。2008年底，全球经济不景气时，我们则致力于巩固和发展公司的领先地位。例如，我们利用先进的培训系统培训出色的管理人员和销售人员，使其能更好的为客户服务。

　　问：您再欧洲的职位会给您带来压力么？通力如何吸引人才？

　　答：我不会只关心个人，我关注的是整个团队。我们正在抓住城市化发展迅速的契机。我们相信以电梯为代表的垂直运输系统将是最契合高层建筑的运输系统。城市化会有助于我们开发环保电梯。我们非常重视高能效产品的开发。目前全球的建筑总共会消耗世界40%的能源，其中电梯占10%。我们在全球有7家通力研究发展中心，中心拥有700名雇员，其中300名都在印度。在通力研究发展中心的努力下，公司正在研制新的节省电梯能耗的解决方案。

'Focus on energy-efficient systems'

　　With the country's growing real estate needs contributing to high rise structures, Kone Corporation, the 5 billion global elevator and escalator manufacturer, is betting big on the Asia-Pacific market. It regards India as its second largest market in the region after China and is consciously focusing on offering energy efficient systems. It recently won an order to install 10 MiniSpace elevators that travel at a speed of 7 metres per second-the fastest in India-at Palais Royale, the 75-storey luxury building at Mumbai's Worli.
　　The Kone Corporation president and CEO, Matti Alahuhta, who was named the European Businessman of the Year in 2009, was in Mumbai last week on a whistlestop tour and took time out for an interview with TOI. Excerpts.
　　What are the trends that you see in the construction industry globally and how do they compare with the trends in India?
　　Development is positive in Asia-Pacific. Due to the recession post 2008, construction has dropped to a good extent in most countries of North America and Europe. The residential segment, however, is looking good in Central and Northern Europe though it is still low in North America. On the other hand, Canada and Mexico are looking up. So far as Asia-Pacific and, more specifically, India and China are concerned, we believe the market is going to escalate in the next 20 years. And the main reason is rapid urbanization and demographic change. In 2001, the urban population was 290 million. In 2010, it has touched 350 million and by 2030 it is expected to touch 590 million.
　　How big a market is China for you? How does India compare to China?
　　These two markets are very important for our business. We have grown nicely in China in the past five years and are currently ranked number four among the total four companies in this business. In India we are number two. This is a market where our equipment business has been doing better. As a market leader we have a strong local presence as well as competence. We have 2,500 employees at out Chennai plant, of them 1,000 are engineers. The Indian operations' contribution to the global engineering, research and development activities is ever increasing. Kone took over the operations in 1990 from Chennai-based Best and Crompton Lifts.
　　What's your share of the market and how have you managed to take shares away from some of the other major players like Otis?
　　In the past six years we have developed customer-focused product services, sourcing and production network. In late 2008, when the economy was doing badly, we designed and invested in developing leadership capability.
　　For example, we have this supervisory programme where the supervisors are trained in motivation skills, sales management programme to get closer to customers and support staff.
　　Does the mantle of European manager of the year bring more pressure on you as a CEO? What's your vision for the group? How do you attract talent to the company considering it's exactly not the most glamorous industry?
　　It's a good recognition not to an individual but to the entire team. Growing urbanization gives us immense scope to grow and more so as the city architecture increases upwards. Apart from safety, urbanization provides ample opportunity to modernize and develop environment-friendly elevators. We have a nice breadth to our activity and vertical structures are the preferred architectural medium. We have consciously decided to focus on offering energy-efficient systems. Buildings consume 40% of the world's energy and elevators account for up to 10% of a building's energy needs.
　　We have seven R&D centres globally, where 700 people are deployed and around 300 of them are in India. We have been pioneering regenerative solutions that can recover maximum energy consumed by elevators.