List of aerial lift manufacturers

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This is a list of the current and former aerial lift manufacturers.

Current

  • Anzen Sakudo – Japan
  • BMF Bartholet – Switzerland
    • Gangloff – Switzerland, acquired by BMF Bartholet in 2014, company only manufactures cabins
  • BMHRI – China
  • Borer – Switzerland
    • SunKid
  • CCM Finotello – Italy
  • Doppelmayr Garaventa Group – Austria, merging of Doppelmayr and Garaventa in 2002[note 1]
    • CWA Constructions – Switzerland, acquired by Doppelmayr in 2001, company only manufactures cabins
    • Doppelmayr Cable Car – Austria
    • Doppelmayr Transport Technology – Austria, manufactures material ropeways
  • Gimar Montaz Mautino – France, merging of Gimar and Montaz Mautino
  • Globe – Poland
  • Habegger – Switzerland, founded in 1950, from 1982 company only manufactures cables
  • Him Cableways – India
  • Hongji – China
  • Leitner Group – Italy[note 2]
    • Agudio – Italy
    • Leitner-Poma – United States[note 3]
      • Skytrac – North America, acquired by Leitner-Poma in 2016[1]
    • Poma – France, acquired in 2000
    • Sigma Composite – France, company only manufactures cabins
  • LST Ropeway Systems – Germany, acquired by MND Group (France) in 2012
  • M&M Ropeways – India
  • Nippon Cable – Japan, licensee of Doppelmayr
    • Tokyo Cableway – Japan
  • SkyTrans – North America
  • Steurer – Austria / Switzerland
  • STM Sistem Teleferik – Turkey
  • Tatralift – Slovakia

Former

  • American Steel and Wire – United States
  • Australasian Ropeway – Australia, manufactured chairlifts in the 1960s and 1970s
  • Bleichert – Germany
  • Carlevaro-Savio – Italy, acquired by Agudio
  • De Pretis
  • Giovanola – Switzerland
  • GMD Müller – Switzerland, founded in 1947, closed in 1992
  • Hamilton – New Zealand, the Hamilton Model B was the standard nutcracker tow across NZ and Australia in the 1950s and 1960s
  • Lift Engineering – United States, also known as Yan Lift, founded in 1965, closed in 1996
  • Marchisio – Italy, acquired by CCM Finotello in 1993
  • McCallum – Australia, manufactured T-bars and chairlifts in the 1960s and 1970s
  • Murray-Latta – Canada
  • Pohlig-Heckel-Bleichert
  • Pullman-Berry
    • Huntsinger Skilifts
  • Riblet – United States, founded in 1908, closed in 2003
  • Roebling
  • Sakgiproshakht – Soviet Georgia, founded in 1946 in Chiatura and later moved to Tbilisi. Until 1990 it was in charge of developing and implementing almost 95% of cable cars built in former Soviet Union Republics
    • Geospectrans – Tbilisi situated division of "Sakgiproshakht" now in charge of repairing and renovating Soviet time cable cars in Georgia
    • Tbilisi Aircraft Manufacturing – Manufacturing cabins for "Sakgiproshakht" developed ropeways from 1946 to 1990. Now in charge of replacing old cabins with the new ones keeping same design in Georgia
  • Stemag
  • Streiff
  • Swoboda
  • Wito
  • Wopfner – Austria, founded in 1952, closed in 1996
  • Yac – France, manufactured platter lifts

Acquired by Doppelmayr Garaventa Group

  • CTEC – United States, founded in 1978, merged with Garaventa subsidiary in 1992 to form Garaventa CTEC, became Doppelmayr CTEC in 2002, and became Doppelmayr USA, known simply as Doppelmayr,[note 1] from 2011
    • Partek – United States, founded in 1996, acquired by Doppelmayr CTEC in 2005
      • Borvig – United States, closed in 1993, rights acquired by Partek
    • Thiokol – United States, ropeway division founded in 1971, ropeway division closed in 1977, rights sold to CTEC in 1978
  • Girak – Austria, 50% acquired by Garaventa in 1996, remainder acquired by Doppelmayr Garaventa Group in 2002
  • Hölzl – Italy, founded in 1945, merged with Agamatic and Doppelmayr Lana to form Doppelmayr Italia[note 1] in 2002
    • Agamatic – Italy, founded in 1981 as a joint venture between Hölzl and Doppelmayr Lana, merged in 2002
  • Küpfer – Switzerland, founded in 1948, merged with Garaventa in 1985
  • Von Roll – Switzerland, ropeway division acquired by Doppelmayr in 1996
    • Hall Ski-Lift – United States, founded in 1954, merged with Von Roll in 1982
  • WSO Städeli – Switzerland, sold to Doppelmayr in 1991

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 Doppelmayr Garaventa Group operates various subsidiaries worldwide manufacturing ropeways under the Doppelmayr and Garaventa brands. These include Doppelmayr Seilbahnen GmbH (Austria), Garaventa AG (Switzerland), Doppelmayr Australia Pty. Ltd., Doppelmayr Canada Ltd., Doppelmayr France SAS, Doppelmayr Italia Srl, and Doppelmayr USA, Inc.
  2. ↑ Leitner Group subsidiary Leitner Ropeways operates various subsidiaries worldwide manufacturing ropeways under the Leitner brand. These include Leitner SpA (Italy), Leitner GmbH (Austria), and LEITNER FRANCE SAS.
  3. ↑ Leitner — Poma of America, Inc is registered in the United States and is operational throughout North America.

References

  1. ↑ "Leitner-Poma & Skytrac - 2 Companies Become 1 Mission". Skytrac. Retrieved 24 July 2016.
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