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Otis giving Singapore residents a fresh lift

Otis Elevator Co. in Farmington has gotten two contracts to install 1,300 replacement lifts in public housing in Singapore.

Singapore’s government public housing authority also signed maintenance agreements on the units with Otis’ Sigma Elevator Singapore subsidiary.

Otis is a unit of United Technologies Corp. in Hartford.

Counting 654 elevators awarded in 2005, Sigma Elevator is supplying 1,954 lifts for the public housing agency’s upgrade program, Otis officials said.

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Sigma has maintenance contracts covering more than 2,300 elevators in the densely populated Asian nation, Otis said.