RIDING THE SKY, SNOW AND WIND The multi-activity Leitner Group is now also present in the snowmaking sector, as Barbara Rossi learnt from Mr Giorgio Pilotti the sales director.
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he South Tyrol based group now holds shares in about 70 companies, but its core companies are the seven entities which it wholly owns, namely Leitner Ropeways, Poma, Agudio, Mini Metro, Prinoth, Leitner Wind and Demac Lenko. Demac Lenko is the most recent addition to the group, born out of the strategic partnership of Leitner with Demac, a company in which 140 Industry Europe
the group holds a significant stake, and together with which it has wholly acquired, as recently as the beginning of 2011, the Swedish based company Lenko, including all its branches in Austria, Italy, the USA and Canada. The main sectors in which the group operates are cableways for mountain and urban people transport (Leitner Ropeways and Poma), as well as for moving
goods (Agudio), cableways for urban public transport (Minimetro), snow groomers, track-driven and utility vehicles (Prinoth), and wind power systems (Leitwind). Demac Lenko has allowed the Leitner Group to re-enter the snowmaking field in which the group was present in the 80s and 90s. This means that now the group has the most complete range of winter and alpine tech-
