Market News: Ropeway Ropes

With Teufelberger's and Redaelli's pooled experience, the Seis-Seiseralm bicable ropeway is running smoothly!

Since mid-2017, Teufelberger and Redaelli have combined the best from two steel wire rope worlds. The most recent success resulting from this consolidation was the project to deliver and install the ropes for the Seis-Seiseralm bicable ropeway where our enhanced performance capacity and our broadened service spectrum have already proved advantageous.

The Seiser Alm in South Tyrol is a tourist magnet all year round, and one of its most heavily frequented ropeways is the Seis-Seiseralm bicable ropeway, taking passengers from Seis, a village with a population of 2,000, up to the Seiser Alm. Dr. Ing. Erwin Gasser, the engineer in charge of this lift system and managing director of SEIS-SEISER ALM BAHN AG, relies on the more than 400 years of combined steel wire rope production experience of Teufelberger-Redaelli.

With a length of nearly 9,000 m and a diameter of 53 mm, the SOLITEC^® 6xK36WS ropeway rope posed a manufacturing challenge mastered in exceptional style thanks to the combined manufacturing and process expertise provided by Teufelberger-Redaelli.

SOLITEC^® ropes have an inner plastic compound coat. This coat ensures the perfect roundness of the rope core and makes it extremely resistant to tensile forces. Profiled support inserts permanently help avoid corrosion and wire breakage, which prolongs the service life of these ropes as compared to standard ropes. SOLITEC® ropes feature low-vibration running characteristics with minimal vibrations and minimal noise.

The time period from placing the order for the replacement rope for the system built in 2002 through to the installation of the rope was only five months. In view of the rope weight of almost 100 tons, transporting the SOLITEC^® haul rope to the installation site constituted a logistical challenge.

The success of the Seis-Seiseralm project demonstrates that the consolidation of Redaelli and Teufelberger has opened up a number of opportunities. Our new sales organization is now even more effective, flexible, and efficient. Furthermore, our service and maintenance activities will be expanded throughout the entire group.