• 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 in the beginning of the 60ies the tourism developed very fast and the winter sport gained more and more it was obvious to make water ski at a cableway possible. There have been built in this time over a hundred ski lifts in Germany which increased the winter tourism enormous. Meanwhile there are about 13.000 Ski lifts in Europe. Without these lifts snow-skiing has never become what it is now, a big commercial size.

The demands of the water skiers to a cable way are much higher than those of the skiers which have to be transported only up to the hill:

• Instead of a speed of 10 km/h at the ski lift, for the water ski demands the international regulation speeds up to 58 km/h
• Instead of a friction force of 40 kg the water ski cableway as 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, as
there had to be solved additional difficulties:

• further waterskiers have to be coupled to the cable running on full speed without
  having to stop the cable
• a distance of 310 m had to be overstretched without a intermediate support to give place to a slalom course
• to find a solution to skier a 90 Degree corner at 58 km/h without falling in the water

Additional numerous technical details had to be cleared and invented by Bruno Rixen which were absolutely necessary to build the first Rixen Waterski Cableway. This long time development with lots of patents doesn’t allow other Cableway producers
to copy the Rixen technology correct 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 more 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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