Leitner AG

Leitner AG
legal form	Corporation
founding	1888
Seat	Sterzing , South Tyrol , Italy;
Number of employees	3,500 (2019)
sales	EUR 1.02 billion (2018)
Branch	Cable car construction
Website	www.leitner.com

Leitner AG , based in Sterzing in South Tyrol, is a company that is active in the construction of ropeways and is part of the High Technology Industries (HTI) group.

history

After the company was founded by Gabriel Leitner in 1888, the company later took part in the construction of the Kohlerer Bahn , the first aerial cableway in Europe, from Bozen to Kohlern in 1908.

In 1925 the workshop had expanded from its initial ten employees to a company with the series production of agricultural machinery. When, after the Second World War, tourism and skiing in the Alps, and thus the development of the mountains, became an increasingly important topic, Leitner not only specialized in material ropeways, but also in the construction of passenger transport systems.

Since 2011, Leitner AG, together with its sister companies Prinoth and Demaclenko, has been the first full-range supplier of winter technologies for ski areas.

In 1993, the building contractor Michael Seeber took over the majority of Leitner AG and was able to expand it through acquisitions and mergers:

1999: Waagner Biro ropeway technology division in Vienna
1999: First direct drive in the cable car industry in Ladurns , Italy
2000: Pomagalski SA (lift systems, brand name "POMA") in Voreppe , France
2000: Prinoth AG
2008: Minimetrò Perugia , a cable-drawn transport system for urban public transport , opens in Perugia , Italy
2011: Lenko and Demac snowmaking company (as DemacLenko)

Projects

Mountain station of the chair lift from St. Sebastian in Mariazell to the Bürgeralpe

Leitner AG has implemented projects worldwide, for example the Leitner Skyliner for the Expo 2000 in Hanover , the Minimetro for public transport from Perugia , the Val Gardena Ronda Express funicular from St. Christina in Val Gardena , the Innsbruck Hungerburgbahn and the Ngong Ping 360 , a Cable car (5.7 km) that connects Tung Chung , Hong Kong with Ngong Ping and his large Buddha statue , as well as a tricable gondola on the Renon , Bozen .

In 2016, the first urban cable car in Mexico ('Mexicable') was opened in Ecatepec (Mexico).

Projects (as of 2015):

Cable car to the highest mountain station in Europe on the Klein Matterhorn (almost 4000 meters) in Zermatt , 2018
IGA cable car to the international garden exhibition in Berlin , 2017
Urban transport link in Mexico , 2016

Products

Leitner Ropeways orbits, gondolas , chairlifts, funiculars, inclined lifts

MiniMetro Intelligent passenger transport systems for local traffic

Company data

In the 2014 financial year, a consolidated total turnover of 705 million euros was achieved. 23.0 million euros were invested in research and development. The number of employees is 3114.

Web links

Commons : Leitner AG - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Leitner Ropeways website
Prinoth website
Demaclenko website
Der Leitwolf , portrait of the owner Michael Seeber (part of the company's history), PDF

Individual evidence

46.895036 11.435539Coordinates: 46 ° 53 '42.1 " N , 11 ° 26' 7.9" E

[1] LEITNER ropeways report

[2] sblatt.com November 12, 2017: The “Himmels-Metro” is booming - cable cars from Austria are on the advance in Latin America.

[3] Neue Zürcher Zeitung - With Pininfarina to the Klein Matterhorn

[4] Berliner Zeitung - IGA-Berlin

[5] Business Week - Mexico