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Nippon Cable

Nippon Cable Co., Ltd. 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. 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, and Sun Peaks Resort.

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Nippon Cable Co., Ltd.
Native name
日本ケーブル株式会社
TypePrivate KK
IndustryTransport equipment
FoundedTokyo, Japan (January 4, 1953 (January 4, 1953))
Headquarters2-11 Kanda Nishiki-cho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan
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Products
WebsiteOfficial website

Nippon Cable Co., Ltd. (日本ケーブル株式会社, Nippon 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.123 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 source ↗
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References

  1. "Nippon Cable Company Overview". Bloomberg Businessweek. Bloomberg L.P. Retrieved March 4, 2014.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  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. Archived from the original on February 20, 2020. Retrieved June 29, 2020.