Kinetic escalator & elevator company limited [keel] belongs to pune’s kinetic group. Two wheeler majors kinetic engineering limited and kinetic motor company limited are the flagship companies of the group.
Keel is exclusive india distributor of hyundai elevator company limited , korea’s pioneering manufacturers of escalators & elevators and korea’s first iso 9001. Keel’s also handles the group’s business of multi-level mechanized car parking systems, pioneered by kinetic group in india.
Semi-automatic auto parking systems have been pioneered by kinetic under the trademark ‘k-park`, with know-how from korea. These mechanized car parking systems make feasible seemingly infeasible car parking requirements.
As against cars being driven [on ramps] or carried [in car lifts] to different levels in conventional multi-level parking, cars are driven at only one level for parking or retrieval in k-park systems. Cars are parked in steel pallets and a target pallet comes up or down to the driveway level at the press of a button, for parking or retrieval.
Such car parking systems or auto parking systems are also referred to by various other names in different parts of the world, such as auto-parking, "stack-parking", "mechanized parking", "mechanical parking", "parkomat", modular parking etc.
K-park semi-automatic systems are of the following five types:
