HTI GROUP, REVENUE OF 1.4 BILLION EUROS FOR 2024. INVESTMENTS AND EMPLOYEES GROW.
Research and development rose to 41 million, with 3 million for staff training. President Anton Seeber: "A period of great macroeconomic changes that requires us to be even more flexible."
HTI closed 2024 with a revenue of 1.402 billion euros, recording a slight decline of 5% compared to the previous year. The South Tyrolean group saw significant growth in investments, with 41 million allocated to research and development and 63 million for durable goods. Staff training expenses reached 3 million, allowing the group to maintain high-quality standards. The number of employees exceeded 4,800, a record for the company.
President Anton Seeber emphasized the importance of flexibility and adaptation to global economic changes. HTI inaugurated new production and logistics sites in North America and Italy, and presented numerous ski lifts worldwide, including nine in Italy. Technological innovations such as Demaclenko's Evo 4.0 snow generator and Bartholet's Ropetaxi in Flims, Switzerland, further strengthened the group's position.
On the energy front, Leitwind inaugurated its first Sicilian wind farm in Trapani, while Troyer celebrated 90 years of history. In 2025, HTI will continue to grow with new projects in cable transport, both tourist and urban, in Mexico, El Salvador, Santo Domingo, Ajaccio, and Trieste. Significant investments will also be made in Italian and Spanish locations.
In 2025, HTI will continue its growth path.
Indeed, numerous projects will be born or completed in the coming months. A good part will concern cable transport, both in the winter tourist context and urban, a sector that is continuously expanding. From Mexico with the start of work on two new additional plants in the metropolitan area of the capital, to El Salvador, passing through the inauguration of another facility in Santo Domingo, the opening of the urban cable car in Ajaccio in Corsica, and probably the opening of the construction sites of the first urban cable car in Italy in Trieste. Always in terms of mountain cable cars, 2025 will see significant investments in Italian locations (from South Tyrol to the Aosta Valley, passing through Trentino and Belluno) but will also mark the return after a few seasons of Leitner in Spain, which will build two plants in Benasque and Astun in the Aragonese Pyrenees.
Among the Italian novelties, there will be the commissioning of the so-called "apple cable car" for the management and transport of the typical product of the Val di Non in Trentino, and, again in Trentino, two inclined elevators, one in Mesiano will connect the center of Trento with the engineering department of the university and the one in Predazzo, which will rise near the new ski jumps in view of the 2026 Olympics.