A leader in cable transportation since 1888.

1888
Leitner is founded by Gabriel Leitner.
Leitner is founded by Gabriel Leitner.
1910
Leitner builds the second reversible ropeway in the world (Kohlererbahn).
Kohlererbahn
1925
The business had grown from a workshop with just 10 employees to a plant for the series production of agricultural machinery.
Leitner's agricultural machinery
1935
Jean Pomagalski develops the first detachable type surface lift.
1947
First Leitner chairlift built in Corvara, Italy.
First chairlift in Corvara, Italy.
1952
First POMA lift in Canada.
1953
Pomalift, Inc., is established in the U.S. and the first POMA lift is installed in the U.S.
1958
The first POMA chairlift is installed in the U.S.
The first POMA chairlift in the U.S.
1960
POMA installs chairlifts at Squaw Valley, California, for the 1960 Winter Olympics.
1967
The first automatic four-seater gondola lifts are installed at Val d’Isère, France, and Queenstown.
1970
First production of a snow groomer.
1972
The first detachable “skis-on” chairlift is installed at Pralognan-la-Vanoise, France.
1974
The first detachable chairlift with bubbles is installed at St. Jean-d’Aulps, France.
1976
The world’s first six-place gondola lift is installed.
1980
Leitner opens a new production plant in Unterakern, near Sterzing, Italy.
1981
Poma of America is established with a factory and offices in Grand Junction, Colorado, in order to have a stronger manufacturing base in the U.S. The first new-generation T-grip quad detachable chairlift is installed at Sept-Laux.
1982
Poma installs the world’s first quad detachable chairlift operating at a speed of five meters per second is installed at Serre Chevalier, France.
1984
POMA installs chairlifts for the 1984 Olympic Winter Games at Sarajevo, Yugoslavia.
1984
The world’s first double mono-cable ropeway is installed at Serre Chevalier / Villeneuve-la-Salle, France.
1984
The world’s highest gondola lift towers — 109 meters high on each bank of the Mississippi River — are installed by POMA in New Orleans, Louisiana.
1984
The world’s highest-capacity cable car — 160 passengers and an attendant — is installed by POMA at Courchevel, France.
1984
POMA installs the world’s first ten-passenger gondola lift is installed at La Clusaz, France, with the highest capacity ever achieved anywhere — 2,400 passengers per hour.
1985
POMA sets a technological record for a six-passenger gondola lift — 2,200 passengers per hour on three interconnected sections in Mottaret.
1985
POMA installs the world’s most powerful motive force ever installed on a detachable aerial ropeway — 2,820 HP on two sections on the Jandri Express double mono-cable ropeway — is installed at Les 2 Alpes, France.
1986
POMA installs the first detachable quad chairlift with bubbles.
1986
POMA installs the 6 passengers gondola in Aspen, Colorado.
1988
The first ten-passenger gondola lift in the western hemisphere is installed by POMA at Whistler, British Columbia.
1988
POMA installs the first twelve-passenger gondola lift in the western hemisphere in Stratton, Vermont.
1989
POMA builds a funicular for Les 2 Alpes [Grenoble, France] which tunnels under the Mont-de-Lans glacier and operates with a single loop of cable.
1990
POMA installs the first twelve-passenger gondola lifts in Asia (Nozawa, Japan).
1990
POMA installs the world’s first detachable chairlift to operate at a speed of 5.5 meters per second (Sugarbush, Vermont).
1991
POMA installs the world’s first gondola lift to operate at 1200 feet per minute (Stowe, Vermont).
1992
POMA installs chairlifts for the 1992 Olympic Winter Games at Albertville, France.
1994
POMA installs chairlifts for the 1994 Olympic Winter Games at Lillehammer, Norway.
1994
Europe’s first six-seater detachable chairlift is installed by POMA at Aviernoz, France.
1998
Colorado’s first six-seater detachable chairlift is installed by POMA at Copper Mountain, Colorado.
1988
POMA developed the new generation of detachable chairlift terminal, “Omega”. This new style enhances easy access and maintenance. Two of them were installed in Copper Mountain, Colorado and one in Crystal Mountain, Michigan.
1989
POMA installs the first Double Loading System in North America and first tire contour DLS system in the world (Breckenridge, Colorado).
2000
Leitner debuts the direct drive for ropeways, and ropeway systems have become a convincing solution to the problem of traffic congestion in urban areas.
2001
POMA installs the first 6 passenger Pulsed Gondola system in North America (Trees of Mystery, California).
2001
A 3-section POMA Gondola Lift, the one and only means of accessing Sunshine Village ski resort, in Banff Park, Canada has been operational since November 2001.
2002
Leitner and Poma merge.
Merger of Leitner and Poma
2003
Installation of the first wind turbine in Malles, Italy.
2004
Opening of a new snow groomer plant for snow groomers, Unterackern, near Sterzing, Italy.
2005
Leitner-Poma installs the highest detachable chairlift system in the world at an elevation of 12,870 ft. (Breckenridge, Colorado).
2009
Leitner-Poma moves into new 90,000 sq. ft. facility.
Leitner-Poma facility in Grand Junction, Colorado.
2011
Leitner-Poma manufactures and sells its new state-of-the-art LPA system.
2011
Installation of North Americas first 6-place Bubble chair in Mt. Snow, VT.
2012
Installation of North Americas fastest 10-place Gondola in Vail, CO.