Leitner-Poma of America, Inc. is a North American subsidiary of Poma S.A., a corporation with headquarters in Voreppe, France and a sister company of Leitner AG, a corporation with headquarters in Sterzing, Italy. Leitner–Poma of America engineers, manufactures, installs and services all types of ropeway systems for the ski industry, amusement parks, and urban transport.

POMA came to Colorado in the early 1950′s under the name of Pomalift, Inc., and has maintained a continuous presence in the United States for almost 50 years. From that start, the word “Pomalift” became synonymous with platter type surface lifts.

Early POMA chairlifts were installed at Squaw Valley, California for the 1960 Winter Olympics. POMA also supplied lifts for the Olympic Winter Games at Sarajevo, Yugoslavia in 1984; at Albertville, France in 1992 and at Lillehammer, Norway in 1994.

In 1981 Poma of America was established with a factory and offices in Grand Junction, Colorado, in order to have a stronger manufacturing, sales and service base in North America. Grand Junction – which is located in Western Colorado near the Utah border — was selected because its geographic location enables POMA to give first-rate service to ski area markets all across North America.