New Member On Windfair.net: Leitwind AG

Hamburg, 24.08.2012. 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 more than 3.000 employees and operating in more than 90 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 direct drive wind turbines with a patented synchronous generator using permanent magnets gets the maximum out of the wind. The turnover shows the company?s success: In 2011 LEITWIND could denote a record year. With three locations in Italy, Austria and India and about 700 employees, the company achieved a turnover of 163 million euros. The 100 newly installed wind turbines contributed to a revenue increase of 19 percent in comparison to the previous year.

Furthermore LEITWIND is also investing heavily in its research and development facilities in Sterzing and Vienna, where in 2012 approximately 5.8 million euros have been invested in new developments. LEITWIND has now installed the impressive number of 200 wind turbines on 3 continents.