Nippon Cable

Comercial company

  • Masayoshi Ohkubo (CEO and President)
Products
  • Amusement park rides
  • Car Parking Systems
  • Funiculars
  • Gondola lifts
  • Incline elevators
  • Ramp elevators
  • Ropeways
  • Ski resorts
WebsiteOfficial website

Nippon Cable Co., Ltd. (日本ケーブル株式会社, Nihon Kēburu Kabushiki-gaisha) is a Japanese corporation headquartered in Chiyoda, Tokyo, and is engaged in the design, production and installation of jig-back and material ropeways, gondola lifts, funiculars, chairlifts, car parking systems, ramp elevators and amusement park rides.[1][2][3] The company also owns and operates resorts in Japan and Canada, including a 25% interest in Whistler Blackcomb, the largest ski resort in North America and host of alpine and nordic skiing events during the 2010 Winter Olympics,[4] and Sun Peaks Resort.[5]

Besides the headquarters in Tokyo, the company has a factory in Narashino, branches in Nagano, Osaka, Sapporo, offices in Fukuoka and service centers in Niigata and Takayama.[6]

The company has been a licensee of Doppelmayr since 1977.[7]

A Nippon Cable-made tramway car part of the Hakone Ropeway

References

  1. ^ "Nippon Cable Company Overview". Bloomberg Businessweek. Bloomberg L.P. Archived from the original on March 4, 2014. Retrieved March 4, 2014.
  2. ^ "Aug 8 2016 Vail Resorts and Whistler Blackcomb agree to strategic combination". Cision Newswire.
  3. ^ "Vail Resorts and Whistler Blackcomb Agree to Strategic Combination".
  4. ^ "Nippon Cable ski resorts". Nippon Cable. Retrieved March 4, 2014.
  5. ^ "Japanese buy Canadian area". Ski Magazine. Active Interest Media. September 1992. p. 13. ISSN 0037-6159. {{cite book}}: |journal= ignored (help)
  6. ^ "Nippon Cable branches and offices". Nippon Cable. Retrieved March 4, 2014.
  7. ^ "History". Nippon Cable. Retrieved June 29, 2020.


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