OPERATIONS
to ensure people have safe, efficient and unique experiences
on the mountains.
“MND has been contributing to safety, leisure and mo-bility
for all by offering our clients proven and sustainable
solutions based on our experience in the development of
mountain sites,” said Martin Francou, business development
director with MND Group. “MND has built up a global offer of
renowned flagship products that are pioneers in their fields,
from snow guns, gas avalanche trigger systems, fixed or de-tachable
gripped lifts, to via ferrata and zip lines.”
Francou says that MND Group originally started in the
safety business, but after making a name for themselves in
that industry, they branched out and added snowmaking so-lutions,
cable transport solutions and high-adrenaline leisure
activities to its services. MND Group currently has four major
business lines: Cable Transport Infrastructure (LST), Snow
Cover Systems (SUFAG), Security Processes (MBS and TAS)
and Leisure Activities (TECHFUN).
“From our recognized experience in the development of
mountain sites, we can offer safety, leisure and mobility solu-tions
to our clients whatever their stakes, territory – in the
mountains as well as in cities – and customers. In each of our
business lines, we design, manufacture, install and maintain
systems on a product range from RACS (Remote Avalanche
Control System) and dedicated terrain monitoring, snow-making
systems, to leisure facilities and ropeways infrastruc-tures,”
said Francou.
Business lines
LST provides skier transportation at mountain resorts.
MND Group provides conveyer belts, ski lifts, chairlifts and
gondolas. The company’s most well-known products in this
line are the cabins and seats, which are designed by Porsche
Design Studio.
MND Group not only ensures people are transported in
luxury, but the products include detachable grips which save
money for maintenance and the products have fixed-grip
technology. Recently, LST and Bartholet, a ropeway manu-facturing
company from Switzerland, partnered to offer
customers a complete technological range of products, local
services and more industrial capacity. North America cable
projects are managed by MND Group, which offers fixed or
detachable installations.
SUFAG provides resorts with all the snow they need. Since
the creation of the first fan gun for snowmaking –first invent-ed
by Fritz Jacob for Linde AG in 1963, the technology was
acquired by SUFAG in 1983 – MND Group has developed 14
more snowmaking products.
MBS secures and develops ski areas, sport venues and rec-reational
areas. TAS works in avalanche risk management
and is a world leader in this service. MND Group uses fixed,
mobile or removable avalanche control systems such as Gas-ex,
daisyBell, and O’bellX.
TECHFUN includes tubing, ziplines, adventure tours, four-season
alpine coasters, footbridges, observation points, ad-venture
parks and much more. In 1993, MND Group began
producing products for via ferrata in France, which ensure
climbers have a protected climbing route on these popular
leisure installations.
Francou says there are other products and services that
complement these lines. MND Group provides a mountain
supplies line that includes safety equipment for professionals
or amateurs. It also offers specific equipment for competi-tions,
leisure and ski schools. MND Group also creates prod-ucts
for trail-marking and it imports bamboo to make poles
for marking ski runs.
The company recently changed to manufacturing their own
poles from extruded polycarbonate because they noticed a
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