High Technology Industries (HTI) Report Issued: Leitner, Poma, Prinoth & Demaclenko
With the LEITNER, POMA, PRINOTH and DEMACLENKO companies, the Group has become an established and globally unique one-stop shop for winter sports technologies. Customers are able to exploit the specialist expertise and skills for ropeway systems, snowgroomers and snow making systems.
The copmpany says: ' The future belongs to modern technologies. Our Group has used the past year intensively to promote research and development – so that we remain on course for success worldwide
High Technology Industries, known as HTI Group[ is a group of companies with its headquarters in Italy. All global players, the subsidiaries are active in the following different fields: ropeways for transporting passengers and materials, snowmaking systems, wind turbines, snow groomers and tracked utility vehicles. Around the world, the group is represented by 70 subsidiaries as well as 131 sales and service points.
Subsidiaries, belonging to the group are the following companies with their respective business sectors:
- Leitner manufactures ropeway systems for the transport of passengers in winter sports, tourism and in urban settings. These include detachable gondola lifts and chairlifts, aerial tramways, funiculars, inclined elevators and fixed-grip ski lifts. With the Agudio brand, Leitner offers solutions for rope-hauled material transport systems. The company was founded in 1888 by Gabriel Leitner in Vipiteno, Italy.
- Poma- the company, based in Grenoble, France, has belonged to the HTI Group since 2000. Poma, like Leitner Ropeways, manufactures ropeways for passenger transport.
- Demaclenko plans, develops, constructs and markets ready-to-use snowmaking systems. The company has been a member of the High Technology Industries (HTI) Group since 2011.
- Leitwind was created taking knowledge gained on electrical drives for rail-guided vehicles to wind turbines.
Leitwind develops and constructs wind turbines in the megawatt class (mostly 0.8, 1 and 1.5 MW turbines with a single 3 MW installed in greece in 2019 ). - Prinoth manufactures snow groomers and tracked utility vehicles for all kinds of slopes and terrain. Headquarters of the company are located in Vipiteno, Italy.
Rope-hauled rail-guided vehicles with the brand name MiniMetro are also developed and constructed within the group. Examples of this system are at work in Perugia, Miami, Cairo and Pisa.
