Rope inspection

A cable car job with a view High above Lake Walchensee, Marcus Liebscher from ROTEC was out and about—specifically at the Herzogstand cable car in Upper Bavaria. The Herzogstandbahn GmbH cable car takes its passengers from Lake Walchensee up to Fahrenberg, at an...

Rope testing equipment for record-breaking installations in practical use. Rope-testing equipment for record-breaking installations must perform where others struggle: at the largest, highest, and deepest facilities on Earth. There, steel wire ropes keep operations...

New R28 rope testing device for the zipline in the Styrian Alps. The Stoderzinken zipline in Gröbming, Styria, now has a new R28 rope inspection device from ROPESYS. Anyone flying over the Alps there at speeds of up to 115 km/h is likely thinking more about the...

When every crane design presents its own unique requirements. When inspecting crane ropes, the structural conditions play an important role, as the requirements for the examination vary depending on the design. This becomes particularly evident when cranes from...

ROPESYS R83 on Bucket-Wheel Excavator 293. The ROPESYS R83 rope testing device was used on excavator 293 at the Hambach open-cast mine. Weighing around 14,200 tonnes and measuring 225 meters in length and 96 meters in height, the bucket-wheel excavator ranks among the...

Bursa Teleferik: ROPESYS R58 training at a world-record-breaking cable car system. An 8.8-kilometer cable car line, an elevation gain of around 1,400 meters, and 45 towers: the Bursa Teleferik in Turkey ranks among the world's extraordinary cable car systems. The...

European Championships in Birmingham: ROPESYS in action. Birmingham hosted the European Athletics Championships from August 10 to 16, 2026. It was the first time the European Athletics Championships were held in Great Britain. While athletes competed for medals and...

Visual rope inspection with the ROPESYS FALCON. How can the condition of a wire rope be assessed as comprehensively as possible? Modern testing technology increasingly relies on a combination of magnetic and optical rope inspection for this purpose. While magnetic...

What is FALCON? Ford FALCON. SpaceX FALCON. Dassault FALCON. Atari FALCON. The name FALCON appears across a wide range of industries. Sometimes it refers to a car, at other times to a rocket, an aircraft, or modern technology. But what lies behind this choice of name?...