Leitner AG

At this year's Interalpin - the world's leading trade fair for alpine technologies - cable car manufacturer LEITNER is once again presenting itself as an innovation leader in the fields of technology and design. The constant intensification of research and development investments over the years will ensure a range of pioneering products for the future of sustainable mobility in 2025. This will become visible at Interalpin with the presentation of a new standard for monocable gondolas, among other things. In addition to this launch event, visitors to the completely redesigned trade fair stand in Innsbruck can look forward to numerous other news from LEITNER.

‘We are delighted to be able to present the result of our intensive, group-wide innovation and development work over the last 18 months to our customers, trade visitors and all interested parties at Interalpin 2025. We are launching an optimised monocable ropeway product that will set new standards in terms of noise reduction, maintenance, occupational safety and efficiency for the entire ropeway industry.’ With these words, Martin Leitner, CEO of LEITNER AG, emphasises the company's high ambition to further consolidate its role as the world's leading manufacturer of ropeway systems.

The launch event will take place on Wednesday, 7 May at 2 pm at the LEITNER stand D06 in Hall D

The second central focus at this year's Interalpin will be the topic of urban ropeway solutions in the context of global mobility challenges. As part of the ‘Inspiration Days’, organised by ‘Messe Innsbruck’, LEITNER, as a partner of this format, will demonstrate its expertise in the field of urban ropeways using the example of the ropeway project in Trieste and present its expertise in the implementation of other urban installations around the world. LEITNER will also be presenting its unique hybrid solution ConnX for the first time at Interalpin.

The system developed and patented by LEITNER is based on an automatically detachable gondola lift, in which the gondola is transferred to a ground-based vehicle at the station, which then continues on its own track on wheels, making it possible to overcome possible topographical or structural hurdles with the gondola lift, while the ‘double solution’ is also an attractive solution for those urban areas in which a continuous ropeway variant cannot be realised for a variety of reasons. At the Interalpin, the latest generation of the vehicle with a premium Diamond EVO cabin with urban equipment will be on show for the first time and can also be experienced up close.

LEITNER will also be presenting its pioneering LeitPilot technology at Interalpin. The system, which can be integrated into new and existing installations, is based on real-time monitoring in the entry and exit areas of the stations and thus creates an essential prerequisite for autonomous station operation. This is made possible by the use of state-of-the-art safety technology, such as advanced LIDAR sensors for monitoring the vehicle pit, which serves as a smart basis for operation without personnel.

The large 3S Symphony cabin designed by Pininfarina will also be a real eye-catcher at the LEITNER stand. This was also a central element of one of LEITNER's most spectacular projects in the recent past: the ‘Alpine Crossing’ on the Swiss Matterhorn. Since summer 2023, the 3S cable car ‘Matterhorn Glacier Ride II’ has connected the Klein Matterhorn mountain station at 3,883 metres with the Testa Grigia valley station (3,458 m) in Italy, making it the highest border crossing in the Alps together with the ‘Matterhorn Glacier Ride I’. Another fixture at the LEITNER stand is the presentation of the 2S system developed in-house, which combines the most important strengths of single-rope and three-rope technology. In Innsbruck, LEITNER will be presenting the system together with the Symphony 10 cabin in Pininfarina design, complete with 2S drive.