Bursa Teleferik: Cable inspection on a world record-holder. An 8.8-kilometer cable car line, an elevation gain of around 1,400 meters, and 45 towers: the Bursa Teleferik in Turkey is no ordinary cable car system. Built by the manufacturer LEITNER, the line connects...
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Rope inspection on Bucket-Wheel Excavator 293 using ROPESYS
Bucket-wheel excavator 293: A machine of superlatives. Weighing 14,200 tonnes, 225 meters long, and 96 meters high: Excavator 293 at RWE Power AG’s Hambach open-cast mine is a machine of superlatives. According to the Guinness Book of Records, the bucket-wheel...
European Championships in Birmingham with ROTEC
The Air-Rail Link from Doppelmayr. From August 10 to 16, 2026, Birmingham was entirely focused on the European Athletics Championships. It was the first time the European Athletics Championships were held in Great Britain. While athletes competed for medals and...
Personal protective equipment
Safety begins with us. With our modern rope testing equipment, we contribute daily to ensuring the safety of cable cars, crane systems, storage and retrieval machines, mine hoisting systems, and many other cable-driven installations. However, for us, responsibility...
Pete Gerlach – ROTEC Employee
Welcome to the team, Pete! Since July 1st, Pete has been strengthening our development team as a software engineer specializing in frontend development. With a degree in Software Engineering and Media Informatics from Esslingen University of Applied Sciences and a...
Combined rope inspection
Combined rope inspection using magnetic and optical inspection technology. How can the condition of a wire rope be assessed as comprehensively as possible? Modern testing methods now combine magnetic and optical rope inspection to reliably detect both internal and...
Meaning of the name FALCON
Meaning of the name FALCON Ford FALCON. SpaceX FALCON. Dassault FALCON. Atari FALCON. Whether in the automotive industry, space exploration, aviation, or computer technology, the name FALCON appears in a wide variety of fields. But why have so many companies...
Wankbahn Splice Detection
When things don't go according to plan. The second splice detector at the Wankbahn was actually supposed to be a project free of major surprises. After all, the ROTEC team had already successfully installed and commissioned an identical system at the Wankbahn the...
Rope testing under extreme conditions
Built for harsh environments. Anyone following our posts often sees cable cars set against impressive mountain backdrops, bathed in brilliant sunshine, and operating within perfectly maintained facilities. It would be easy to assume that our ROPESYS rope testing...








