• The history of Rixen Cableways
• 1960-1964 Hours of a pioneer
• 1965-1969 From prototype to series production
• 1970-2012 From the „One man show“ to the world marketleader
• Team 2012

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As in the late 50ies and early 60ies the tourism developed very fast and the winter sports gained more and more it was obvious to make it possible to ride at a cableway. There were hundreds of ski-lifts built in Germany which increased the winter-tourism enormous. Meanwhile there are about 15.000 Ski lifts in Europe. Without these lifts skiing and snowboarding would almost be impossible.

The demands of the water-skiers to a cableway are much higher than those of the skiers which only have to be pulled up the hill:

• Instead of a speed of 10 km/h at the ski-lift, for the water ski demands the international regulation speed is up to 58 km/h
• Instead of a friction force of 40 kg the water ski cableway has to cope with 200kg
• The dangerous and feared force crossway to the cable is 10 times higher than at each ski lift!

These demands haven’t been solved by the big cableway industry, even by investing millions. However, even with solving these 3 problems, it wouldn’t have been done, there were still sdditional difficulties which had to be solved:

• further waterskiers have to be coupled into the running cable on full-speed without stopping the cable
• the distance of 310 m had to be overstretched without a intermediate support to give space for a slalom course
• find a solution to solve the 90° corner at 58 km/h without falling in the water

Additional numerous technical details had to be cleared and invented by Bruno untill he was able to build the first “Rixen Cableway”. This longtime development including a plenty of patents makes it impossible for other cableway producers to copy the Rixen technology correctly until today.

50 years of company history- 50 years of research and development for the water ski cableway

1960-1964 Hours of a pioneer

The graduate engineer Bruno Rixen, an addicted water-skier always asked himself why this magnificent sport is not that popular. A market research showed that waterskiing had two [...]

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1965-1969 from prototype to series production

The running cable had to be improved so that it had a durability of at least 1000 hours for 100 summer days. Today the durability of the running cables with 11.000 hours is equivalent [...]

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1970-2012 from the „One man show“ to the world marketleader

Since 1976 the water-ski cableways had been build with a 10mm running cable. Enormous operating experience has been made during this time. The technical demands of the water-skiers [...]

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