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 1935 to the end of the 50's
1935Jean Pomagalski develops the first detachable type surface lift.
1952First POMA lift in Canada
1953Pomalift, Inc., is established in the U.S. about this time.
1953The first POMA lift is installed in the U.S.
1958The first POMA chairlift is installed in the U.S.

 

The 60's
1960POMA installs chairlifts at Squaw Valley, California, for the 1960 Winter Olympics
1967The first automatic four-seater gondola lifts are installed at Val d'Isère, France, and Queenstown

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The 70's
1972The first detachable "skis-on" chairlift is installed at Pralognan-la-Vanoise, France
1974The first detachable chairlift with bubbles is installed at St. Jean-d'Aulps, France
1976The world's first six-place gondola lift is installed.

 

The 80's
1981Poma 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
1981The first new-generation T-grip quad detachable chairlift is installed at Sept-Laux
1982The world's first quad detachable chairlift operating at a speed of five meters per second is installed at Serre Chevalier, France
1983The 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
1984POMA installs chairlifts for the 1984 Olympic Winter Games at Sarajevo, Yugoslavia
1984The world's first double mono-cable ropeway is installed at Serre Chevalier / Villeneuve-la-Salle, France
1984The world's highest-capacity detachable chairlift — 2,976 passengers per hour — is installed at Courchevel, France
1984The world's highest gondola lift towers — 109 meters high on each bank of the Mississippi River — are installed by POMA in New Orleans, Louisiana
1984The world's highest-capacity cable car — 160 passengers and an attendant — is installed by POMA at Courchevel, France
1984POMA 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
1985POMA sets a technological record for a six-passenger gondola lift — 2,200 passengers per hour on three interconnected sections in Mottaret
1985POMA 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
1986POMA installs the first detachable quad chairlift with bubbles
1986POMA installes the 6 passengers gondola in Aspen, Colorado
1988The first ten-passenger gondola lift in the western hemisphere is installed by POMA at Whistler, British Columbia
1988POMA installs the first twelve-passenger gondola lift in the western hemisphere [Stratton, Vermont]
1989POMA 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
1990POMA installs the first twelve-passenger gondola lifts in Asia [Nozawa, Japan]
1990POMA installs the world's first detachable chairlift to operate at a speed of 5.5 meters per second [Sugarbush, Vermont]
1991POMA installs the world's first gondola lift to operate at 1200 feet per minute [Stowe, Vermont]
1992POMA installs chairlifts for the 1992 Olympic Winter Games at Albertville, France
1994POMA installs chairlifts for the 1994 Olympic Winter Games at Lillehammer, Norway
1994Europe's first six-seater detachable chairlift is installed by POMA at Aviernoz, France
1998Colorado's first six-seater detachable chairlift is installed by POMA at Copper Mountain, Colorado
1998POMA 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
2000POMA installs the first Double Loading System in North America and first tire contour DLS system in the world [ Breckenridge, Colorado]
2001POMA installs the first 6 passenger Pulsed Gondola system in North America [Trees of Mystery, California]
2001A 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. Read the article.
2005LEITNER-POMA installs the highest detachable chairlift system in the world [Breckenridge, Colorado]. Read the article.

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