tracked utility vehicles headquarters sterzing italy revenue 171 million eur 2010 owner michael seeber number of employees 605 2010 website www.prinoth.com snow groomer everest forestry mulcher prinoth beaver prinoth ag is an italian manufacturer of snow groomers and tracked utility vehicles . the company s headquarters are located in sterzing south tyrol italy . with its fleet of snow groomers prinoth is active in slope preparation . its utility vehicles are used as carrier vehicles and for vegetation and biomass management . contents 1 history 2 products 3 references 4 external links history edit the company which is part of the leitner group was founded in 1951 1 when racing driver and constructor ernesto prinoth opened the predecessor of the current company a garage . the man from val gardena applied his passion for high performance vehicles to the development of snow vehicles for winter conditions in south tyrol . in 1960 prinoth began with experiments for snow groomers . 1964 saw the release of the first snow vehicle in the form of the p15 slope grooming vehicle . in 1970 the piste preparation for the skiing world championships in val gardena was carried out by prinoth vehicles for the first time . 2000 saw the merger of the respective snow groomer branches of leitner ag and prinoth . the takeover of the snow groomer range of bombardier was completed in 2005 . this was followed by the takeover of the bombardier tracked utility vehicle range in 2009 and the founding of the headquarters of prinoth llc canada in 2009 . that year also marked the founding of prinoth gmbh in telfs austria . 2011 saw a strategic alliance with ahwi maschinenbau and the expansion of the product portfolio to include vegetation and biomass management . products edit snow groomers tracked utility vehicles vegetation management references edit history of prinoth external links edit wikimedia commons has media related to prinoth . prinoth website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title prinoth company & oldid 653854482 categories companies based in south tyrolhidden categories commons category with local link same as on wikidata navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version in other projects wikimedia commons languages deutschfran ais edit links this page was last modified on 28 march 2015 at 06 26 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view