Poma

Pomagalski, better known as POMA, is a French cable car builder based in Voreppe, Isere at Grenoble.

Company Profile

The product range of Pomagalski includes all facilities of the cable car building, Funicular on aerial tramways, of gondolas about chair lifts to ski lifts, ropeways and cable cranes. POMA has built claims to have 7800 plants in 73 countries, and is a world leader in the ropeway construction .. POMA main competitor is the Doppelmayr Garaventa Austrian-Swiss group. The Leitner AG was also a significant competitor to Michael Seeber, the owner of the Leitner AG, in 2000, the shares of Pomagalski SA took over

Corporate Structure

The company Pomagalski forms with the South Tyrolean rope railway builders Leitner based in Sterzing a strategic partnership. In North America, both companies appear together as a Leitner Poma of America and as Leitner Poma Canada. The French Pomagalski has numerous subsidiaries and representative offices in different countries of the world. These include in particular:

• Leitner Poma of America in Grand Junction ( Colorado), USA, the cable cars for North America, Australia and New Zealand produce;
• Agudio spa in Leini ', Torino, an entity created in 1861 Italian company that now focuses on funiculars and special transport systems;
• Sigma Composite in Veyrins, Isère, in cabin and coachbuilders of the group;
• SEMER in Le Fayet, Haute -Savoie, provide the automation and electronic equipment;
• COMAG in Bourg -Saint -Maurice, Savoie, performing the engineering and installation of the cable cars.

History

The Pomagalski S. A. was founded in 1947 by Jean Pomagalski in Fontaine, a suburb of Grenoble. The platter lifts had in the early years the largest share of the production, however, was soon extended to other systems.

With the acquisition of the shares by Michael Seeber of the company name in Pomagalski was changed, and the Société anonyme (SA ) into a société par actions simplifiée (SAS ) converted.

For POMA 's most famous facilities include the 1958 -built cable car to the Aiguille du Midi, the 1973 renewed cable car to the Sugar Loaf in Rio de Janeiro, which opened in 1995, Skyrail Rainforest Cableway in Australia, the Vanoise Express, with the largest two-story cabin, the Telefériqo in Quito the currently highest mountain station in the world and the construction of the Roosevelt Iceland Tramway in New York.