Poma
Poma are a leading cable transportation (aerial lift) company and have supplied more than 7,500 installations in 69 countries on all 5 continents.
The POMA Group has more than a hundred years' expertise in cable transportation.
The company AGUDIO, now POMA ITALIA, was established in 1860 by the engineer Tommaso Agudio, a widely respected technician who decided to specialise in the design of cable-propelled lifting and transportation devices. He built the first passenger transportation funiculars, then moved on to manufacturing passenger elevators, goods elevators, cable conveyors for goods transportation and finally cable cars.
Today, the POMA Group employs approximately 750 staff worldwide.
POMA produces: ski tows fixed and detachable grip chairlifts seating 2 to 8, gondola lifts for 4 to 25 passengers, detachable grip two-way cable cars, goods ropeways, cableways used in dam construction and civil engineering, inclined elevators, shuttle elevators funiculars urban transportation shuttles, other shuttles, APM's, fully automatic and on dedicated guideways minimetros
In recent years POMA's competitors, as a result of mergers and bankcrptcies, have resulted POMA's main competition being the equally large Austrian firm Doppelmayr.
POMA are located in Voreppe Cedex, France.
Notable Milestones made by POMA
1861 : First funicular in Italy, in Dusino
1870 : Design and construction project for the funicular connecting Moncenisio with Lanslebourg (Italy-France), and the cilena Cordigliera construction (Italy)
1880 : The famous Superga funicular in Turin (Italy)
1936 : First ski tow built, Alpe d'Huez (France)
1937 : Plateau Rosa cable car at Cervinia (Italy), the first over 3,500 m long
1944 : Cable car at the torino ski area in Courmayeur (Italy), the first to achieve a speed of 10 m/s
1950 : Cable car at Furggen in the Cervinia region (Italy), which had a cable length of 2,887 m
1954 : Cable car built on the southern slopes of Mount Etna (Sicily), providing direct access to the flanks of the largest craters, at 2,900 m
1956 : Aiguille du Midi gondola lift, Mont Blanc massif (France)
1958 : First POMA double chairlifts, France and the United States
1966 : First fully automatic gondola lifts, Val d'Isère (France) and Queenstown (New Zealand)
1971 : Construction of the famous Sugarloaf cable car, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
1973 : First 6-passenger gondola lift in the world, Villard de Lans (France)
1973 : First triple chairlift in Europe, Val Cenis (France)
1974 : Construction of the gondola lift at Ocean Park, Hong Kong
1976 : Construction of the urban funiculars in Naples (Italy)
1978 : Rio Branco industrial transporter (Brazil)
1982 : First light detachable grip chairlift to be operated at a speed of 5 m/s, Serre-Chevalier (France) 1982 : First ALPHA chairlift terminal
1983 : First 6-passenger gondola lift in the world to operate at a speed of 5 m/s, Saint-Pierre de Chartreuse (France)
1984 : "Plantret" detachable grip chairlift in Courchevel (France) : world capacity record of 2,976 p/h
1984 : First detachable grip cable car, Serre-Chevalier (France), with a capacity of 3,000 p/h
1984 : First 10-passenger gondola lift in the world, at La Clusaz (France), with the greatest capacity in the world : 2,400 p/h
1984 : The highest gondola lift towers (109 metres), on each bank of the Mississippi in New Orleans (United States)
1985 : Construction of the largest cable car in the world, at Courchevel (France), holding 160 passengers and operating on towers at 11 m/s
1986 : 6-passenger gondola lift at Aspen (United States), length 4 km, height difference 1,000 m, operating at 5.5 m/s, with a capacity of 2,400 p/h, all in one section. A world record
1987 : First POMA detachable grip chairlifts fitted with bubbles, at Tandadalen (Sweden), and Saint-Pierre dels Forcats (France)
1987 : Morzine inclined elevator
1988 : First gondola lift in the world to operate at 6 m/s, with a capacity of 3,600 p/h
1989 : Construction of the POMA 2000, the mini-metro in Laon (France)
1989 : Les 2 Alpes funicular, France, built entirely in a three-dimensional curved tunnel carved out underneath a glacier
1991 : Construction of two gondola lifts, one with an underground terminal, at Badaling (Great Wall of China) 1991 : Provision of the winches and automatic control systems for the giant locks on the Rhine at Kembs (France)
1991 : Design and construction of the first generation of OMEGA detachable grip chairlift terminals, remarkable for their compactness, minimal investment and low maintenance characteristics
1993 : First 6-seater detachable grip chairlift in Europe, at Avoriaz (France)
1995 : Construction of the longest single-section gondola lift in the world, at Orelle, France (length : 4,942 m, height difference : 1,471 m)
1995 : Construction of the Cairns gondola lift (Australia), in tropical fores
1997 : First 6-seater fixed grip chairlift in France, at La Plagne
1997 : First fixed grip chairlift terminal with a hydraulic motor, in Queenstown (New Zealand)
1997 : Construction of the Zhangjiajie cable car (China) in a UNESCO heritage site, using only one tower, and built on rock
1997 : "Water-edge" cable car in Juneau (Alaska)
1997 : Assembly, manufacture and positioning of the cables for the largest bridge in the world, the Storebaelt in Denmark
1997 : Construction in Iran – for the KARUN III dam – of the largest cableway in the world : 28 tonnes per hour
1998 : First 16-passenger gondola lift in the world, at Les Angles (France)
1998 : Construction of the longest detachable grip chairlift in Europe, "La Casse du Boeuf" in Serre-Chevalier, France (length : 2,760 m, height difference : 870 m ; installed power : 1,060 hp)
1999 : Fabrication made by SIGMA COMPOSITE & SEMER (Poma Group's subsidiaries) of the 32 "capsules" to be mounted on the biggest ferris wheel in the world called "LONDON EYE"
2000 : Study and construction of the first generation of detachable lift "PHNIX"
2000 : Construction of the first 8-seater detachable chairlift "PHNIX 8 " at Méribel(France)
2001 : Construction of DMC – FUNITEL du Grand Fond at Val-Thorens. This double monocâble system will have 33 "SPACIO 33" cabins carrying up to 3 000 passengers/hour
2003 : Construction of the biggest passenger ropeway, for a link between Les Arcs and La Plagne. the two "duplex" cabins have a capacity of 200 peoples + 1 cable-car conductor each
2003 : Construction of the first TELEMIX, called Roche Rousse, at Orcières-Merlette. This aerial lift is equipped with SATELLIT terminals, and with chairs and cabins
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