PRINOTH MAGAZINE EN | 2018 [2] INDEX EDITORIAL PAGE 03 PRINOTH SNOW GROOMERS LEITWOLF: RELIABLE AND POWERFUL PAGE 07 BISON: POWERFUL AND CONVINCING PAGE 17 HUSKY X: GREAT TECHNOLOGY FOR THE AMERICAN DREAM PAGE 19 PRINOTH AS PARTNER PAGE 21 PRINOTH X COMMUNITY PAGE 29 PRINOTH TRACKS PAGE 39 SNOW HOW: EVERYTHING IN VIEW PAGE 41 PRINOTH TRAININGS PAGE 49 PRINOTH SNOWLICIOUS PAGE 51 AFTER SALES NETWORK PAGE 57 ANTARCTIC PAGE 69 PRINOTH AGRIPOWER PAGE 73 PRINOTH TRACKED VEHICLES PANTHER T8: ADAPTABLE AND VERSATILE PAGE 79 PANTHER T14R: PERFORMANCE, SPEED AND MOBILITY PAGE 85 INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS FOR EVERY REQUIREMENT PAGE 93 PANTHER T12: HIGHEST PAYLOAD IN ITS CLASS PAGE 97 TAILORED TRAINING PAGE 101 PANTHER T6: EFFICIENT WITH LOW GROUND PRESSURE PAGE 103 AFTER SALES NETWORK PAGE 107 PRINOTH VEGETATION MANAGEMENT IMPRINT HYDRAULIC MULCHERS PAGE 133 Responsible for the content RAPTOR 800: IN USE WORLDWIDE PAGE 115 PRINOTH AG RAPTOR 300: STYLISH IN BLACK PAGE 121 Brennerstraße 34, 39049 Sterzing, Italy NEW PRODUCT R800 PAGE 123 p +39 0472 722622 | f +39 0472 722618 AFTER SALES NETWORK PAGE 127 [email protected] www.prinoth.com HTI NEWS Circulation: 12,000 | twice a year LEITNER: A CABLE CAR AS A SYMBOL OF PEACE PAGE 133 Register of the Chamber of Commerce: Bozen/Bolzano – BZ 28086144 DEMACLENKO: BROAD PRODUCT RANGE FOR THE NEW SEASON PAGE 135 VAT ID no.: IT00769050212 © PRINOTH 2018 ONLINE SHOP PAGE 137 CUSTOMIZATION EDITORIAL A SOLUTION FOR A PRINOTH vehicle fulfills the most taxing requirements by providing vehicles customers can always rely on to cope with their daily work. We are known for taking on challenges and EVERY DEMAND breaking new ground in finding solutions to different problems. Customer focus is at the centre of our company’s philosophy. Our ears are open to support our Our vehicles are masterpieces of technology and design. Since our beginnings, they customers. Rapid, competent and uncomplicated - whether it is the flow of information, advice have been designed as powerful, reliable and adaptable for every application. or service or a matter of spare parts. The customer stands at the centre of our thinking and dealing. You and your requirements are the benchmark of our efforts to continually improve. PRINOTH has always had a single goal in mind since its inception: softening harsh and challenging outdoor work conditions using more modern technologies. Our founder, Ernst PRINOTH solutions are tailor-made. The articles in the 20th edition of our PRINOTH World Prinoth, created a worldwide revolution throughout winter sport industries with his first bear witness to this. snow grooming vehicle. Today, PRINOTH is not only the leading producer of snow grooming vehicles, but has also established itself internationally because of its successful diversifi- I hope you enjoy reading it! cation into the areas of tracked vehicles and vegetation management. The combination of our different business areas with relevant expertise allows us to provide Werner Amort effective solutions that are committed to meeting the needs of our customers. President PRINOTH AG PRINOTHWORLD 2018 — PAGE 03 | 04 100LEITWOLF X PRINOTH LONG YEARS OF PARTNERSHIP WITH VAL D’ISÈRE: première neige) since 1966. In 2009, Val d’Isère hosted the Alpine World Ski Championship. Here, the criterion for the perfect piste applied, so ski resort manager Cedric Bonnevie relied, like his predecessors, on top quality suppliers that are accustomed to the largest and PRINOTH OVER most important winter sport events in the world: for the World Ski Championship, PRINOTH supplied nine brand-new machines. 100 TIMES! Val d’Isère relies completely on PRINOTH quality - not only is the fleet 100% PRINOTH, the ski resort works only with the best available on the market. Three machines have already been equipped with the Leica Geosystems snow measuring module. For the 2018/2019 PRINOTH can celebrate almost a golden wedding anniversary with Val d’Isère: for more than season, three more units will be monitored with the complete SNOW HOW system. 40 years the ski resort has been one of our most faithful customers! 16 snow grooming vehicles provide first-class slope quality - all of them are PRINOTH vehicles! In 2018, the ski resort’s fleet was increased by three new LEITWOLFs. The last of these three was a deluxe version with the AUTOMATIC winch. The champagne was already being cooled BISON X AND SEVERAL LEITWOLFS - CONCENTRATED PRINOTH POWER! as this unit was The slopes of Val d’Isère are known throughout the world: the extremely steep La face de Bellevarde - famous as the only ski slope from which one can see the finish directly from the THE HUNDREDTH PRINOTH VEHICLE start, and the slope Oreiller-Killy - scene of the “Criterium of the First Snow” (Critérium de la » ACQUIRED BY VAL D’ISÈRE. « PRINOTHWORLD 2018 — PAGE 07 | 08 LEITWOLF PRINOTH & LEITNER: resort in the whole of Poland. Why? Because the ski resort management has established a DOUBLE POWER FOR comprehensive investment plan, in which they are building entirely on the competencies of the LEITNER Group. Since 2017 the slopes of Szczyrk have been brought into perfect shape by two PRINOTH LEITWOLFs - a 10th cableway and two six-seater chairlifts with bubbles of POLAND’S GREATEST the LEITNER brand bring the joys of high-class winter sports to the highest slopes. 20 km of slopes in the most beautiful and partially forested landscape give travellers to AND MOST MODERN Szczyrk the greatest joy - for which slopes manager Lukas Pavciak requires reliable snow grooming vehicles on which he can rely 100%. SKI RESORT THE LEITFOLF WITH A WINCH HAS SERVED US OUTSTANDINGLY, AND ITS POWER AND RELIABILITY AS WELL AS SAFETY SZCZYRK MOUNTAIN RESORT RELIES ON TECHNOLOGY » AT WORK HAVE COMPLETELY CAPTIVATED US. (Lukas Pavciak) « AND CUMULATIVE KNOWLEDGE FROM A PROVIDER THAT ONLY THE LEITNER GROUP CAN OFFER Cooperation with our LEITNER colleagues additionally impressed the ski resort: within a few First things first: “Szczyrk,” is pronounced “shirk”. Skiers should note this name, because months, the luxurious LEITNER lines were built and could be put into operation already by the Szczyrk Mountain Resort is the largest, and will shortly become the most modern ski the winter season 2017/2018. PRINOTHWORLD 2018 — PAGE 09 | 10 LEITWOLF MAJIME PRINOTH LEITWOLF CONVINCING RELIABILITY AND EFFICIENCY “Majime” is a Japanese term which indicates a person with a sober character who takes care of work responsibly and with no great stir. Our LEITWOLF has achieved this dignified designation at a demon- stration in the Hirugano Kougen ski resort. LEITWOLF IN HIRUGANO KOUGEN, JAPAN Hirugano Kougen belongs to the Chubu Snow Alliance. In the fleet of this ski resort several PRINOTH vehicles are already represented, however not the LEITWOLF T4f. Not yet! The vehicle indeed achieved great enthusiasm from the ski resort operator and from its best driver, Hiro Misawa. Word of the vehicle demo got around quickly, so that the other snow grooming vehicle drivers also wanted to go for a test drive on the LEITWOLF. Unanimous verdict: “We love it!” UNRIVALLED POWER The LEITWOLF is the most efficient and at 530 hp the strongest snow grooming vehicle available on the international market. With a climbing ability of 100% (thanks to the AUTOMATIC winch), a work- ing width of 4.5 m and a tiller with a parallel offset that is unique worldwide, it masters the heaviest terrains by itself. PRINOTHWORLD 2018 — PAGE 11 | 12 LEITWOLF YONGPYONG SKI RESORT THE LEITWOLF Resort, located in the northeast region of the country. With its 28 slopes and 14 lifts at 700 m to 1,458 m in height and an average snow- REACHES SOUTH fall of 250 cm, the ski resort has been a proven location for inter- national competitions - the latest being the Winter Olympics 2018. KOREA MANOEUVRABLE, POWERFUL, RELIABLE - THE ALPHA ANIMAL OF SNOW GROOMING VEHICLES IN USE On the slopes of the Yongpyong Resort, PRINOTH’s EVEREST snow DESIGN AND PERFORMANCE OF THE LEITWOLF groomers have proved themselves over the years, and are now joined CONVINCES EVERYONE IN THE LARGEST SKI RESORT by a LEITWOLF. The especial manoeuvrability qualities of the high-tech OF SOUTH KOREA snow grooming vehicles, combined with their outstanding performance Yongpyong Ski Resort was founded in 1975, and since has risen to have won people over and will prepare the slopes of the ski resort in become the ski mecca of South Korea. The well-known and largest future winter sport competitions - no doubt the surest way to further South Korean ski and snowboard resort belongs, along with a golf continue the development of the resort into a major East Asian course, luxury apartments and an indoor water park, to the Yongpyong attraction. PRINOTHWORLD 2018 — PAGE 13 | 14 LEITWOLF THE LEITWOLF HAS SCALED THE LARGEST » VOLCANO IN EUROPE AND HAS MET EVEN « FIRE AND ICE THIS CHALLENGE WITH DISTINCTION. Maybe some people will remember the legendary film by Willy Bogner from the 80’s. For some customers PRINOTH organised a demonstration of super-class vehicles. Eight PRINOTH offered a few customers a unique experience in competition with the elements PRINOTH vehicles - among them, five LEITWOLFs captivated visitors in probably the most in Sicily: our vehicles dared to dance on the volcano... exotic ski resort in Europe. A snow grooming vehicle in Sicily? Maybe not the first thing one associates with that south People could ascend dangerously close to the volcano with the LEITNER lift. There, the eight Italian island. But yes, there are indeed ski resorts on Etna: such as Star Etna and Etna Nord vehicles were tested to their limit. At this point, not only was the PRINOTH cable winch of Piano Provenzana, in the region of Lingualglossa. the LEITWOLF given a good inspection, but the passenger cabin of the LEITWOLF was also While a few metres beneath the surface the fiery torrents flow and threatening smoke rises seen up close.