American Eagle

Copper Mountain, located 120km from Denver, is one of Colorado's favorite resorts.  With naturally divide piste rankings helps keep skier abilities separated in zones.  Unlike most ski resorts, Copper offers beginner terrain far West, intermediate in the middle and expert and open bowl skiing to the East. With a summit elevation of 3,753m Copper ranks in with the highest ski terrain in America. The American Eagle is Leitner Poma's first Telemix lift.  Six place chairs and eight place Sigma gondolas, services gentle slopes and the Solitude Station restaurant. The Eagle is one of three Direct Drive ropeways provided in America this year. The new lift increases capacity by 33% to 3200 pph.  The gondola operation is a favorite with the passengers heading to lunch at the Solitude restaurant.

TECHNICAL DATA

• Lenght : 1905 m
• Capacity : 3200
• Vertical rise : 452 m
• Number of cabins : 26
• Speed : 5 m/s
• Number of passengers per seats: 6

American Flyer

The American Flyer, located at Copper Mountain Colorado, may well be the longest bubble chairlift in the world.  Its impressive slope length of 3009 meters and its 182 six place blue bubble chairs makes it among the largest ever. It replaces an aging 1986 POMA 4-seater detachable chairlift and it is equipped with one of America's first Direct Drive models. At a very high top elevation of 3541 meters, subjects passengers to very cold and windy weather conditions.  The bubble enclosures are very popular with Coppers guests.  The string of blue bubble chairs places a very visible signature on the mountain unlike any other major resort.

TECHNICAL DATA

• Lenght : 3009 m
• Capacity : 2400
• Vertical rise : 580 m
• Number of seats : 182
• Speed : 5 m/s
• Number of passengers per seat : 6

Winter Park is one of Americas oldest ski resorts, it opened in 1939. Train service from Denver makes this one of Colorado's favorite ski resorts. Very popular with Denver and the Front Range skiers, Winter Park is among the largest resorts in America. Exclusively, Leitner Poma has provided all their lifts since the early 1980's. The Zephyr DCL4, which is named after the trans-continental train connection that travels through the base area, was replaced this summer. The new 10-passenger gondola lift is a significant upgrade for the resort and provides day and night access to the mountain top “Sunspot” restaurant.The gondola, which uses Sigma 10 place cabins, is 1714 meters in length and 3600 pph in both directions.

TECHNICAL DATA

• Lenght : 11714 m
• Capacity : 3600
• Vertical rise : 489 m
• Number of cabins : 75
• Speed : 5,5 m/s
• Number of passengers per seats: 10

American Eagle

Copper Mountain, located 120km from Denver, is one of Colorado's favorite resorts.  With naturally divide piste rankings helps keep skier abilities separated in zones.  Unlike most ski resorts, Copper offers beginner terrain far West, intermediate in the middle and expert and open bowl skiing to the East. With a summit elevation of 3,753m Copper ranks in with the highest ski terrain in America. The American Eagle is Leitner Poma's first Telemix lift.  Six place chairs and eight place Sigma gondolas, services gentle slopes and the Solitude Station restaurant. The Eagle is one of three Direct Drive ropeways provided in America this year. The new lift increases capacity by 33% to 3200 pph.  The gondola operation is a favorite with the passengers heading to lunch at the Solitude restaurant.

TECHNICAL DATA

• Lenght : 1905 m
• Capacity : 3200
• Vertical rise : 452 m
• Number of cabins : 26
• Speed : 5 m/s
• Number of passengers per seats: 6

American Flyer

The American Flyer, located at Copper Mountain Colorado, may well be the longest bubble chairlift in the world.  Its impressive slope length of 3009 meters and its 182 six place blue bubble chairs makes it among the largest ever. It replaces an aging 1986 POMA 4-seater detachable chairlift and it is equipped with one of America's first Direct Drive models. At a very high top elevation of 3541 meters, subjects passengers to very cold and windy weather conditions.  The bubble enclosures are very popular with Coppers guests.  The string of blue bubble chairs places a very visible signature on the mountain unlike any other major resort.

TECHNICAL DATA

• Lenght : 3009 m
• Capacity : 2400
• Vertical rise : 580 m
• Number of seats : 182
• Speed : 5 m/s
• Number of passengers per seat : 6

The line connects the tourist hub of Zlatibor to Tornik’s summit, which peaks at an altitude of 1,496 metres. Zlatibor, also known as Kraljeve Vode (‘King’s Water’), has been a renowned Serbian tourist resort since the 19th century, particularly prized for its climate, its setting and its snowy slopes.
This new gondola lift is part of the overall drive to strengthen and diversify the region’s tourist attractions. Around the downhill resort in the centre of Zlatibor, the municipality is planning to build the biggest adventure park of the Balkans (1,000 m²); it will offer numerous leisure activities, such as zip wires, hanging bridges, tobogganing and climbing.

The middle station at lake Riničko, halfway between both terminals, will accommodate the forthcoming high-end tourist resort of ‘Gold city’, which will provide water-based activities, sports and recreational facilities to the 1 million European tourists expected over the next 10 years. Zlatibor is setting its sights on becoming Serbia’s top tourist destination.

Lastly, the resort at the terminal located on Zlatibor’s highest peak will not only offer outstanding views of the surrounding landscape and mountains from its scenic view-point, but will also invite visitors to hit the ski slopes in winter, such as mountain biking in the summer, and test their limits in an extreme-sport environment.

POMA supported Zlatibor in its efforts to respect the local environment in particular, designing and building the gondola lift to satisfy numerous ecological standards. The municipality of Čajetina aims to become the first Serbian municipality to reach European ecological standards by 2020.

Opting for a gondola lift was fully in line with this approach, since it is currently one of the ecological means of transport available. It will reduce the number of vehicles travelling to Tornik and therefore cut CO2 and greenhouse gas emissions.

The group's history in Latin America began in the 1960s, in the Andean ski resorts, and entered a new chapter in 2004 with the construction of Line K of the Metro de Medellin, the start of a strong and enduring partnership in Colombia.

This urban gondola lift incorporated into a public transit system was a world first and quickly became a model for many large cities in terms of sustainable transportation and social inclusion. With the Metrocable, the city was gradually transformed, connecting the different neighbourhoods and their inhabitants.

Along with this mobility, from the start of the project, the POMA Colombia team has fit into the local landscape and implemented social initiatives that have become a lasting part of its POMA identity. Today, POMA Colombia continues to support many environmental, social and cultural organisations.

Following quickly from the first, a second Metrocable line was installed in Medellin in 2008, and in 2010 a gondola lift was created as a tourist attraction.

In 2013, POMA decided to set up a solid base in Colombia by creating a subsidiary there, thus strengthening its local presence, in close proximity to its Colombian and Latin American customers. That same year, with its original team of four people, the new subsidiary won invitations to tender for maintenance and inspection contracts with Metro de Medellin.

Several successful operations later, this fruitful partnership with Metro de Medellin was stronger than ever, and POMA Colombia began responding to direct requests. The company had to move twice, to the south of Medellin in 2014 and then to the north of the city in 2018, closer to its main customer and to larger premises that could accommodate its 84 employees.

With 13 installations completed to date, become the gateway in Latin America. Its business lines and areas of expertise have diversified. While maintenance and inspections remain the core business, POMA Columbia now delivers turnkey lifts, as it has for Medellin and Pereira, in collaboration with POMA France.
POMA Colombia is reaching a turning point in its development. It is evolving from an equipment supplier into a company offering complete solutions, present at every stage in the project: from the design phase to construction, project management, assembly and maintenance, and even the production of mechanical sub-assemblies (tower tubes, beams, walkways and even certain station structures) with a local partner.
And given the massive growth of ropeway transportation in LATAM, this is only the beginning!

In April, POMA Colombia celebrated the milestone of 100,000 operating hours on the K line with Metro de Medellin !

The group's history in Latin America began in the 1960s, in the Andean ski resorts, and entered a new chapter in 2004 with the construction of Line K of the Metro de Medellin, the start of a strong and enduring partnership in Colombia.

The French Federation of Ski (F.F.S.) is an association that aims to develop and promote the practice of skiing and snowboarding in all their forms, and make it accessible for the greatest number.
The FFS has full management of the French Teams in the following Olympic disciplines: alpine skiing, cross-country skiing, jumping, Nordic combined, biathlon, freestyle skiing and snowboarding.
It also manages many non-Olympic disciplines such as speed skiing, telemark or grass skiing. Know more about the association.

The young Savoyard President was elected unanimously by the General Assembly of “Domaines Skiables de France” and will succeed Pierre Lestas.
Pascal Tournier will be his Deputy President. Alongside a renewed team, he is ready to meet the challenges of a mature ski market in France : establish a stable economic model for all operators, work at a rebalancing of the regulation which limits the economic development of ski resorts and act more on the development of new customers.

Discussions and conferences allowed the participants to talk about investments and changes that are required to make the mountain accessible to all, in any season, and to be able to meet the climate challenge.

For POMA ropeways, major conference partner, it was an opportunity to meet all our French customers, who came in large numbers to visit our booth for this 80th edition.