FARMINGTON, Conn., Dec. 8--PRNewswire-AsiaNet/InfoQuest Otis, a unit of United Technologies Corporation (NYSE: UTX), will supply and install 127 elevators, escalators and Trav-O-Lator(R) moving walkways to Rome Fair, one of the largest exhibition and business centers in Italy. "This major contract award, encompassing nearly our full range of products, confirms Otis' longstanding reputation as the technology leader in our industry," said Otis President Ari Bousbib. "We are pleased to provide products that will further enhance Rome's status as a leading destination for world tourism." Located just outside of Rome's center along the Roma-Fiumicino motorway, Rome Fair will balance business and leisure by offering 2.26 million square feet 210,000 square meters) of space for international meetings, expositions, cultural activities and tourism. It will feature 22 raised pavilions up to 20 feet (6 meters) in height. Otis will provide transportation throughout the site with 53 elevators -- including 44 roped machine-roomless elevators and seven Gen2(TM) flat-belt machine-roomless elevators -- 42 escalators and 32 Trav-O-Lator moving walkways. Otis Elevator Company is the world's largest manufacturer and maintainer of people-moving products, including elevators, escalators and moving walkways. With headquarters in Farmington, Connecticut, Otis employs 60,000 people, offers products and services in more than 200 countries and territories and maintains more than 1.45 million elevators and escalators worldwide. United Technologies Corp., based in Hartford, Connecticut, is a diversified company providing high technology products and services to the commercial building and to the aerospace industries. SOURCE: Otis Elevator Company CONTACT: Tizz Weber, Director, Communications Programs of Otis Elevator Company +1-860-676-6127, [email protected] --Distributed by AsiaNet (www.asianetnews.net)--