Timeline

Leitner-Poma is the undisputed world leader in cable transportation, as our achievements over the years will attest. Please, choose the decade you are interested in :

• From 1888 to the 60's
• The 60's
• The 70's
• The 80's
• The 90's
• Since 2000

From 1888 to the end of the 50's

 

• 1888 Leitner is founded by Gabriel Leitner.
• 1910 Leitner builds the second reversable ropeway in the world (Kohlererbahn).
• 1925 The business had grown from a workshop with just 10 employees to a plant for the series production of agricultural machinery
• 1935 Jean Pomagalski develops the first detachable type surface lift.
• 1947 First Leitner chairlift built in Corvara, Italy
• 1952 First POMA lift in Canada
• 1953 Pomalift, Inc., is established in the U.S.
• 1953 The first POMA lift is installed in the U.S.
• 1958 The first POMA chairlift is installed in the U.S.

The 60's

• 1960 POMA installs chairlifts at Squaw Valley, California, for the 1960 Winter Olympics
• 1967 The first automatic four-seater gondola lifts are installed at Val d'Isère, France, and Queenstown

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The 70's

• 1970 First production of a snow groomer
• 1972 The first detachable "skis-on" chairlift is installed at Pralognan-la-Vanoise, France
• 1974 The first detachable chairlift with bubbles is installed at St. Jean-d'Aulps, France
• 1976 The world's first six-place gondola lift is installed.

The 80's

• 1980 Leitner opens a new production plant in Unterakern, near Sterzing, Italy
• 1981 Poma of America is established with a factory and offices in Grand Junction, Colorado, in order to have a stronger manufacturing base in the United States
• 1981 The first new-generation T-grip quad detachable chairlift is installed at Sept-Laux
• 1982 Poma installs the world's first quad detachable chairlift operating at a speed of five meters per second is installed at Serre Chevalier, France
• 1983 Poma installs the world's first six-passenger gondola lift operating at a speed of five meters per second is installed at St. Pierre-de-Grande-Chartreuse, France
• 1983 High speed detachable systems have gradually replaced fixed-grip installations.
• 1984 POMA installs chairlifts for the 1984 Olympic Winter Games at Sarajevo, Yugoslavia
• 1984 The world's first double mono-cable ropeway is installed at Serre Chevalier / Villeneuve-la-Salle, France
• 1984 The world's highest-capacity detachable chairlift — 2,976 passengers per hour — is installed at Courchevel, France
• 1984 The world's highest gondola lift towers — 109 meters high on each bank of the Mississippi River — are installed by POMA in New Orleans, Louisiana
• 1984 The world's highest-capacity cable car — 160 passengers and an attendant — is installed by POMA at Courchevel, France
• 1984 POMA installs the world's first ten-passenger gondola lift is installed at La Clusaz, France, with the highest capacity ever achieved anywhere — 2,400 passengers per hour
• 1985 POMA sets a technological record for a six-passenger gondola lift — 2,200 passengers per hour on three interconnected sections in Mottaret
• 1985 POMA installs the world's most powerful motive force ever installed on a detachable aerial ropeway — 2,820 HP on two sections on the Jandri Express double mono-cable ropeway — is installed at Les 2 Alpes, France
• 1986 POMA installs the first detachable quad chairlift with bubbles
• 1986 POMA installes the 6 passengers gondola in Aspen, Colorado
• 1988 The first ten-passenger gondola lift in the western hemisphere is installed by POMA at Whistler, British Columbia
• 1988 POMA installs the first twelve-passenger gondola lift in the western hemisphere [Stratton, Vermont]
• 1989 POMA builds a funicular for Les 2 Alpes [Grenoble, France] which tunnels under the Mont-de-Lans glacier and operates with a single loop of cable

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The 90's

• 1990 POMA installs the first twelve-passenger gondola lifts in Asia [Nozawa, Japan]
• 1990 POMA installs the world's first detachable chairlift to operate at a speed of 5.5 meters per second [Sugarbush, Vermont]
• 1991 POMA installs the world's first gondola lift to operate at 1200 feet per minute [Stowe, Vermont]
• 1992 POMA installs chairlifts for the 1992 Olympic Winter Games at Albertville, France
• 1994 POMA installs chairlifts for the 1994 Olympic Winter Games at Lillehammer, Norway
• 1994 Europe's first six-seater detachable chairlift is installed by POMA at Aviernoz, France
• 1998 Colorado's first six-seater detachable chairlift is installed by POMA at Copper Mountain, Colorado
• 1998 POMA developed the new generation of detachable chairlift terminal, "Omega". This new style enhances easy access and maintenance. Two of them were installed in Copper Mountain, Colorado and one in Cristal Mountain, Michgan

Since 2000

• 2000 POMA installs the first Double Loading System in North America and first tire contour DLS system in the world [ Breckenridge, Colorado]
• 2000 Leitner debuts the direct drive for ropeways, and ropeway systems have become a convincing solution to the problem of traffic congestion in urban areas.
• 2001 POMA installs the first 6 passenger Pulsed Gondola system in North America [Trees of Mystery, California]
• 2001 A 3-section POMA Gondola Lift, the one and only means of accessing Sunshine Village ski resort, in Banff Park, Canada has been opertional since November 2001.
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• 2003 Installtion of the first wind turbine in Malles, Italy
• 2002 Leitner and Poma merge
• 2004 Opening of a new snowgroomer plant for snowgroomers, Unterackern, near Sterzing, Italy
• 2005 LEITNER-POMA installs the highest detachable chairlift system in the world [Breckenridge, Colorado].
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