LEITNER AG

Where others do not go

The LEITWIND success story starts with ropeways, a core competence of LEITWIND´s parent enterprise, HTI with production sites in Italy, Austria, France, Slovakia, Sweden, the USA, Canada, India and China. The group originally evolved from a ropeway constructing company which has, for decades, brought leading-edge technology into spectacular mountain terrain. With a staff of 3.320 employees and operating in 124 international sales and service centers, the HTI group offers a broad range of high technology products. The portfolio contains leading brands like LEITNER ropeways and Poma for rope-hauled passenger transportation systems for the mountain and urban environments, Agudio for material ropeway systems, Prinoth for snow groomers and tracked utility vehicles and DemacLenko for snowmaking systems.

LEITWIND, the Italian-Austrian specialist and leading manufacturer of gearless wind turbines with a patented synchronous generator using permanent magnets gets the maximum out of the wind.

Last year, 53 new LEITWIND wind turbines were installed and commissioned worldwide. The majority of the orders came from the company’s domestic markets in Italy and India. In Italy in 2012, the installed base number passed the one hundred wind turbine mark. Many contracts were follow-up orders placed by existing customers who appreciate the advantages of the LEITWIND partnership approach. Even in this year LEITWIND invested heavily in its research and development facilities in Sterzing and Vienna, where in 2012 approximately € 6.6 million have been invested in new developments.

With the three facilities in Italy, Austria and India and about 700 employees, the company installed the impressive number of 253 since 2007.