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[Zage]

Girak-Garaventa builds lifts in Europe. Here are some pics from lift-world.

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[SkiBachelor]

The Girak name has been dropped and it is now just known as Garaventa.

[highspeedquad]

So other than gondis they really only built fixed grips? Or are there other lifts I haven't seen that are high speed?

[SkiBachelor]

I don't think Girak made surface lifts but I presume it made everything from fixed grip lifts to gondolas. It also made HSQs & HSSs, but there arn't too many of those around. However, the carriers that are used on Garaventa CTEC's HSSs are actually Giraks carrier design.

[highspeedquad]

SkiBachelor, on Feb 25 2005, 05:13 PM, said:

I don't think Girak made surface lifts but I presume it made everything from fixed grip lifts to gondolas. It also made HSQs & HSSs, but there arn't too many of those around. However, the carriers that are used on Garaventa CTEC's HSSs are actually Giraks carrier design.
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So the more modern carriers on HSS's by Garaventa after they dropped "Girak" and after the merger of Garaventa and CTEC, but before the Dopp merger, were Giraks former design?

[SkiBachelor]

No, Garaventa continued to use its own HSS carrier design, but Garaventa CTEC used Giraks HSS carrier design.

Garaventa is over in Europe
Garaventa CTEC was the North American branch.

[highspeedquad]

Okay, that's making more sense.