Prinoth AG
PRINOTH snow groomers and tracked vehicles are in the fast lane all over the world: with excellent performance, economy, efficiency and reliable design. PRINOTH has always stood for snow groomers of the highest quality. In 2009, the acquisition of the Canadian tracked vehicle manufacturer Camoplast allowed diversifying the product portfolio. Since then, PRINOTH can boast the world`s most comprehensive range of snow groomers and tracked vehicles. In 2011, with the takeover of the German forestry machine manufacturer AHWI, the PRINOTH Group expanded its activities to a third business segment. In addition to snow grooming and tracked vehicles, PRINOTH is now a player in the vegetation management sector.
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- Business Type:
- Manufacturer
- Industry Type:
- Agriculture
- Market Focus:
- Globally (various continents)
This company also provides solutions for other industrial applications.
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About Us
Snow Groomers. Perfect slopes. PRINOTH snow groomers stand for innovative technologies and appealing design and are known the world over. PRINOTH takes a resource-friendly approach to designing and building its snow groomers to meet the demand for maximum efficiency in snow grooming. The combination of cutting-edge technology and extensive expertise in grooming is the recipe for success for cost-effective and high-quality snow grooming.
Tracked Vehicles. No matter whether mud, gravel or snow, PRINOTH tracked vehicles are reliable working machinery for extreme applications on extreme terrains. Thanks to their huge payload, these vehicles can be equipped with all types of specialized attachments and are perfect for all construction and drilling work, including pipeline construction, and for the laying and maintenance of power lines. In short, they offer a wide variety of applications for deployment throughout the year under the most difficult conditions. PRINOTH tracked vehicles stand out for their very low ground pressure, which allows them to reach places where other wheeled vehicles would inevitably get stuck. Moreover, these vehicles are used for the transport of personnel, machinery and other heavy equipment.
Vegetation Management. Mulching, clearing or milling. With a broad range of innovative tracked vehicles and powerful mulchers, PRINOTH provides sustainable solutions for clearing and re-cultivating forest areas, keeping power line clearing lanes free and transforming unused scrubland into agricultural or forestry land. In addition to being focused on the cost-effective machining of forest and agricultural lands, the PRINOTH Vegetation Management business unit is also set on expanding its range of biomass solutions.
An expert partner. Whether snow groomers, tracked vehicles, or mulching attachments, all our machinery is designed for practical everyday needs and can be personalized to meet the most diverse requirements of customers anywhere in the world. PRINOTH’s mission is to be your expert partner in a relationship in which service and customer focus are a priority.
Vision & Mission:
PRINOTH achieves its objective through:
Innovative products: PRINOTH thinks ahead and sets standards in the development of new products and optimal solutions. With a strong focus on research and development and the courage to explore new ideas, we are already working on the technologies of tomorrow.
Customer focus: PRINOTH gears its activities towards customer value. Our proximity to the market allows us to offer integrated solutions to our customers and to increase their business success.
Quality leadership: High-quality products lead to high reliability and productivity. Our quality promise is complemented with excellent service and worldwide availability of genuine spare parts.
Efficiency: PRINOTH aims for continuous improvement of processes in all business sectors and optimizes the cost effectiveness of its added value. We pay special attention to maximum efficiency and an economical use of resources.
Strong employee orientation: Committed employees with high individual responsibility find potential for development and fulfillment at PRINOTH. Our open corporate culture leads to high transparency and a strong team spirit.
Environment
Energy efficiency, the conservation of resources, waste prevention, and environmentally-sound production processes are topics that are firmly embedded in the corporate policy of PRINOTH. The ISO 14001 certificate confirms that PRINOTH has an effective system to minimize its own environmental impacts and thereby make an important contribution to long-term environmental protection.
As a leader in technology, PRINOTH is actively responding to the challenge of making slope grooming more environmentally friendly. With the Husky E-Motion, it is already presenting solutions fit for day-to-day operations.
To achieve this goal, PRINOTH is relying on diesel-electric solutions. For example, in the case of the Husky E-Motion, which is completely suitable for everyday use, a diesel-electric solution replaces the hydrostatic drive. This allows fuel savings of up to 20 percent with a simultaneous increase in the available power and torque at the drive wheel.
With its implementation of the exhaust emissions standards according to a fixed schedule, PRINOTH continues to contribute to a sustained reduction of emissions. The company is already operating prototype vehicles to thoroughly test the new technologies for satisfying the required emissions limits.
In that regard, PRINOTH Clean Motion signifies clean, perfect slope grooming.
Innovation
In order to be able to defend and strengthen its role as market leader and, with the spirit of innovation and courage, to open up new dimensions in slope technology, PRINOTH is intensely occupied with the topic of innovation.
But what changes – which trends and megatrends – characterize our present, and what conclusions may be drawn from them for the future?
To solve the puzzle of the future, PRINOTH organized an innovation workshop with the Zukunftsinstitut (the Future Institute), one of the most influential think-tanks in European trend and future research, and the team from the IAK, the Institute for Applied Creativity.
Together, trend corridors were identified and hypotheses for the future were drawn up, from which innovation ideas were derived, in order to be able to best continue to satisfy the customers of tomorrow.
The fact that in the future, the industry will be placing greater and greater value on “eco-action”, ecological action in the sense of environmental protection, is already known. But how to react? With a Zero Emissions Vehicle, such as a vehicle free of harmful exhaust?
The future is multifaceted and leaves a great deal of room for creativity. PRINOTH will follow the megatrends, and with forward-looking innovation and production management, it will fulfill the customers’ wishes of tomorrow and continue to stand by their side as a competent partner!
History:
The Pioneer: A Go-getter with a Sense for the Here and Now
PRINOTH, a subsidiary of the LEITNER group with its headquarters in Sterzing, Italy, can look back on a long and successful history. A tradition with pioneering spirit. In 1951, the race driver and design engineer Ernst Prinoth opened the parent firm of today’s company, an automotive garage. Soon the native of Val Gardena found a way to translate his passion for powerful vehicles into something practical: snow groomers, which were ideal for the wintry conditions of his South Tyrolean home.
PRINOTH then and now
Everything began when racing driver Ernst Prinoth opened his automotive garage in Gröden in 1951. Fascinated by snow vehicles, he began developing slope vehicles and, in 1962, produced his first P 60 prototype. Two years later, the first production vehicle rolled off the assembly line. Developments continued over the years. LEITNER acquired PRINOTH at the turn of the millennium and continued the range as an independent company under the PRINOTH name. PRINOTH thereby became the world's most complete provider of snow cats. The further acquisition of the groomer range of Canadian manufacturer Camoplast (previously Bombardier) in 2005 and the acquisition of Camoplast's tracked utility vehicle range in 2009 gave PRINOTH a wider area of activity beyond snow groomers. With additional equipment of all types, thanks to their tracks, the robust vehicles are able to reach the most remote locations without sinking into mud or soft soil, unlike wheeled vehicles. Thanks to a strategic alliance with a German forestry machinery manufacturer, AHWI, PRINOTH expanded its activities to a third area of activity in 2011. In addition to snow grooming and the tracked utility vehicle range, PRINOTH is now also active in vegetation management and, in addition to the cost-effective processing of forestry and agricultural land, is also seeking solutions in the global development of biomass.
Group
Globally competitive high-tech companies under one roof
PRINOTH belongs to the Leitner group. The latter is active worldwide on the markets for ropeways, snow groomers and tracked utility vehicles, urban transportation systems and wind energy. The snowmaking division added at the end of 2010, will provide a complete offering for one-stop shop for all winter-based technologies.
With technological expertise and a clear strategic orientation, the different companies face the challenges of the market – on the basis of the corporate values: social responsibility, ethics, quality and growth.
A successful 2012
In the financial year 2012, a consolidated turnover of € 715 million has been achieved. In all areas of business, € 26 million were invested into research and development to extend its technological advantage. The number of employees worldwide grew to a total of 3,320.
Quality & Ethics
Quality
In 1994, the LEITNER Group introduced a quality management system that is in full compliance with the international standard ISO 9001 and is certified by SQS. This quality management system includes continuous monitoring of our business processes.
All internal processes are customer-oriented and targeted at an enhanced product, from the development stage to after-sales customer care. Ongoing improvements in terms of products, customer care and the working conditions of our employees, plus a strong focus on environmental awareness have always been the goals of quality management of the companies of the LEITNER group.
The Environmental Management System (EMS) and the Occupational Health and Safety Management System (OHSAS) have been integrated, turning the existing Quality Management System (QMS) into an Integrated Management System (IMS).
Ethics
The rules of conduct that are contained in the organization and management model are supplemented by those of the Code of Ethics that was also introduced by the company.
In this way, a total body of internal regulations has been created with the purpose of disseminating the culture of ethics and transparency within the company by offering the employees a kind of guideline for their everyday behavior within the company and to implement the organization and management model in accordance with Italian Legislative Decree 231/01 concerning the administrative liability of companies.
