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Interalpin in Innsbruck from 6 to 9 May 2025
Interalpin 2025 – Visit us at the most important trade fair in the industry! Interalpin 2025 in Innsbruck is just around the corner. This trade fair is the world's leading event for cable car and mountain railway technology. From May 6 to 9, 2025, experts, trade...
ROTEC ski trip Zugspitze 2025
ROTEC Zugspitze ski trip: Team event with workshops and summit experiences The annual ROTEC ski trip "ROTEC & Friends" took place on the Zugspitze from February 13 to 16, 2025. Both ROTEC employees and long-standing partners participated. This year, Jörg Wilke,...
Seminar Wire Ropes Essen March 19-20, 2025
Wire Ropes: Practical Seminar Wire ropes play a crucial role in many technical areas. Therefore, it is important to acquire the necessary knowledge. March 19 and 20, 2025 The practical seminar "Wire ropes - design, selection and monitoring" will take place in the Haus...
Rope inspection with AI
Rope inspection and artificial intelligence: ROTEC in the AI escape room In September, the ROTEC team visited the German Institutes for Textile and Fiber Research (DITF) in Denkendorf. The goal was to gain practical insights into artificial intelligence (AI) through...
Magnetic rope testing Nebelhornbahn
Magnetic rope testing: Galileo features ROTEC at the Nebelhornbahn. Magnetic rope testing was the focus of an exciting TV report. In the ProSieben program Galileo on December 20, 2024, our experts Sven Winter and Sebastian Traub impressively demonstrated how rope...
ROPESYS Cloud analysis with AI
AI-powered cloud analysis for rope testing Last month, we released a significant software update for our ROPESYS rope testing device. At the same time, we further developed the analysis algorithms, which are now available in an updated version in the ROPESYS Cloud. In...
Cable Car Secret Revealed by the Mouse
Cable Car Secret Revealed by "The Show with the Mouse" – Fun and Facts Stories "The Show with the Mouse" Reveals the Secret of the Cable Car in an Exciting WayIn this episode, the show explained how ski lifts and cable cars work. Particularly fascinating was the...
Christmas Party 2024 ROPESYS Team
ROPESYS Christmas Party 2024: Go-Kart Fun and Enjoyment at Rotenberger Weingärtle On Wednesday, the long-awaited ROPESYS Christmas party finally took place – and what an experience it was!️ The afternoon kicked off with a bang at "Kart-o-Mania." After a brief...
Magnetic rope testing device ROPESYS by ROTEC
The magnetic rope testing device ROPESYS by ROTEC at the international conference. The magnetic rope testing device ROPESYS by ROTEC was presented at the international conference "Subsea Lifting and Marine Operations 2024" on December 3rd and 4th in Stavanger. Dr....
Rope tester R140 Pedestrian bridge Belgium
Precise rope testing in Belgium: ROTEC's R140 rope testing device in use On October 28 and 29, 2024, our employee Sebastian Traub was on the road in Belgium to inspect the stay cables of the pedestrian bridge in Obourg in cooperation with our partner Vinçotte. ROTEC's...
Conveyor rope inspection in Pakistan
ROTEC inspects hoisting ropes in the mountains of Patriata, Pakistan In October 2024, our expert Sebastian Traub was on the road in Pakistan as part of an important rope test. On October 24, he carried out a comprehensive inspection of the haul ropes of the 2-seater...
Insights into rope technology
ROTEC provides insights into rope technology - Successful seminar with ELASKON Last week, the team at lubricant expert ELASKON Sachsen GmbH & Co KG had the opportunity to gain valuable insights through a specialized rope technology seminar led by our employee Dr....
OITAF World Ropeway Congress
ROTEC at the OITAF World Cables Car Congress 2024: Innovation in rope testing From June 17 to 21, 2024, the 12th OITAF World Congress of Ropeways took place in Vancouver - a meeting place for experts from the ropeway industry from all over the world. Sven Winter, one...
Support wanted!
Our team is constantly growing and we are looking for employees in almost all areas: Administration Sales (office staff, sales assistance) Marketing Production R&D (mechanics, electronics & software) ... Would you also like to get started in our young...
Home match in Bad Cannstatt
Our inspection engineers are on the road all year round to ensure the safety of ropes of all kinds. But we are also always happy when we have jobs right on our doorstep: Europe's largest fairground festival takes place twice a year on the 25-hectare Cannstatter Wasen....
Get well soon for Sepp Ross
We have been working closely with Bayerische Zugspitzbahn AG for many years. We were all the more shocked by the news that the manager of the Zugspitze cable car, Sepp Ross, had suffered a heart attack. Now some time has passed and Sepp is fighting his way back to...
Ropeway specialists continue their training in Bad Wildbad.
Everything was well organized by the technical Sommerbergbahn operations manager Rafael Lopez. "That's insane, what they're bringing up there!" said Günter Voigt from Freiburg. Hans Schabert / Bad Wildbad Not in Oberstdorf or Berchtesgaden, but rather just a year and...
ROTEC @ WIRE 2024
A whole week of WIRE 2024 is over and we would like to thank you for the many stimulating and exciting discussions on the subject of rope testing and our new ROPESYS Inline device. We are delighted that our fully automatic system for process control in rope production...
Sven Winter is president of the OIPEEC
The OIPEEC Conference 2024 took place from April 9-11 in Bardolino, Lake Garda, Italy. An interesting program provided the backdrop for 159 experts from 27 countries to meet, exchange ideas and network on the topic of "rope". In addition, the new board of the OIPEEC...
40 years “Rope Pope” & Haus der Technik
Happy Birthday Roland & HDT! In March 2024, Roland Verreet ("The Rope Pope") once again held his well-known seminar "Wire Ropes" at the Haus der Technik in Essen, Germany. The first rope seminar by the world-famous "rope pope" took place in 1984. Roland & the...
WIRE 2024 in Düsseldorf / Germany
On April 15-19, we will be exhibiting at WIRE 2024 in Düsseldorf / Germany - the world's leading trade fair for wire and wire products. In this framework we present a ROPESYS world exclusive: Our new "Inline"-Device: An automated inspection system that is fully...
ROPESYS: Job openings in Marketing & Sales
Here you can find the job posting: https://www.ropesys.com/mitarbeiter-gesucht/
Workshop & ski trip 2024
Ski & Workshop Weekend 2024 The traditional ROTEC workshop and ski weekend took place last weekend. We use the time together to discuss current topics and projects. We then spent two wonderful days skiing with our customers in the Allgäu, where we were able to see...
ROTEC at the VDV Rope Seminar 2024.
This year's "Rope Seminar" of the Association of German Transport Companies e.V. will take place on April 24th and 25th, 2024, in Bad Wildbad. This year, the following topics are on the agenda, among others: Behavior in case of rope damage Ropeway technology...
Christmas party 2023
The ROTEC and ROPESYS GmbH Christmas party 2023 took place last week. We would like to thank our partners, customers, suppliers, friends and employees for their excellent cooperation over the past year. We wish you a Merry Christmas and a successful and healthy New...
PPE Training 2023
Safety First This is the premise we work by every day. For our own safety and that of our colleagues, we practice every year the rescue of injured colleagues and self-rescue when working at heights. This year we trained together with the employees of company HOLCIM in...
Report on the OITAF seminar “Get the best out of your ropes”.
As part of Interalpin 2023, a seminar hosted by OITAF Study Committee No. II, Ropes, was held at the Innsbruck Congress Center. The theme: "Get the most out of your ropes". The moderation was led by Dipl.-Ing. Sven Winter, Managing Director of ROTEC GmbH. He is the...
Interalpin 2023
From April 19th to 21st, 2023, the 24th INTERALPIN will once again bring the 'Who’s Who' of the global ropeway and alpine technology industry to the fully booked Messe Innsbruck. With 650 exhibitors, INTERALPIN reaffirms its status as the world’s leading trade fair...
Student project work for the skilled professionals of tomorrow.
As part of a project, our holiday worker Fabio Heiter, along with his classmates from the Immanuel-Kant-Gymnasium in Leinfelden, conducted an analysis of our company. In doing so, the professionals of tomorrow were able to carry out, among other things, a...
Research Project: Inspection of Fiber Ropes
Last year, we launched a research project in collaboration with the German Institutes of Textile and Fiber Research (DITF) in Denkendorf. The goal is to develop a method for non-destructive testing of fiber ropes to determine their discard maturity. The background is...
Inspection of the Cable Car “BUGA Mannheim 2023”
Last week, the employees of ROTEC had the pleasure of enjoying the beautiful sunshine. For the Federal Garden Show 2023 in Mannheim, the company Doppelmayr from Wolfurt (Austria) built a state-of-the-art cable car. The D-Line system, featuring 64 ten-person cabins, is...
SWR Television: ROTEC
SWR: Made in Southwest A television crew from SWR accompanied the engineers of ROTEC GmbH for a few days and observed their work. This resulted in an exciting documentary about the diverse work of ROTEC, focusing on ropes and their safety. In addition to its role as...