TRADITIONAL COMPANY
Since more than 65 years, GANTNER has been specializing in the development and construction of winches and matrerial ropeways.
History
GANTNER is an Austrian family business which today is run in the 3rd generation. It was founded in 1948 in the Western Austrian region Vorarlberg, in the town Sulz, where the company’s headquarter is still located. Since the foundation as winch manufacturing company operating mainly in the forestry business, GANTNER has emerged in a solid way to a highly technological company and specialist in winch technologies for different areas of application.
Overview of our development
| 1948 | Founding of an engineering company for manufacturing winches, cable cranes and ancillary equipment. |
| 1970 | Development of the USW series winch and development of export markets. |
| 1980 | Development of hydraulic skid-mounted winches with three completely independent brake systems (without air brake) with TÜV approval. |
| 1988 | Development of high-performance hydraulic skid-based winches for torrent and avalanche control construction (HSW80) , 130 and 150 Series) with TÜV approval. |
| 1991 | Construction of current premises at Industriestrasse in Sulz. |
| 2000 | Use of the newly-developed G-Tronic control system for the diverse types of winches. |
| 2004 | Commencement of cooperation with the international active cable crane company LCS Cable Cranes with respect to the development and testing of new equipment. |
| 2006 | Market introduction of the winch series GW500 with diesel-hydraulic or electro-hydraulic power units. |
| 2009 | Development of the parallel crane CC-09 in cooperation with LCS Cable Cranes. |
| 2011 | Development of the GC crane unit concept which is available as GC50, GC100, GC150 and GC200. |
| 2012 | Re-structuring of the company with a new Management Team. |
| 2013 | Implementation of various technological innovations, incl. a remote maintenance system. |
| 2013 | Development and construction of the heavy-winches concept GWH for heavy load handling (80 tons). |
| 2015 | Complete new development of the powerful winch GW270D and a lightweight crane unit GCS60. |
