Fan gun Lenko 820

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Lenko is located in Östersund with some of Sweden’s biggest and best ski facilities in the immediate vicinity. Lenko is today one of the strongest brands in snow production with sales worldwide. Lenko has been a part of Leitner Technologies since February 2011 and a sister company with Leitner Ropeways, Demac, Prinoth and Poma and is consequently able to offer complete skiing facilities with snow, snowgroomers and lifts.

The Lenko history

Lenko was founded by Lennart Nilsson from Krokom outside Östersund.

Lennart, who was then a very promising researcher, started to manufacture and sell bandsaw blades through Firma Lenko in 1955. Lenko stands for Lennart Nilsson in KrokOm. During the 60s Lenko developed its unique snow scooter Larven which was steered by the driver having skis on his feet.

In 1978 Lennart started to be interested in artificial snow and, over the next five years, the first Lenko gun was developed. In contrast with other snow guns that were then on the market, the Lenko 820 weighed appreciably less and was perceived to be very modern.

Sales grew and, in 1985, Lenko’s new gun – Lenko 880 – was launched, which today is the most sold snow gun model.

At the end of the 80s automation made its way into snow production and, in 1991, Lenko’s first semi-automatic snow gun – the Lenko 2000, was ready. This snow gun then developed further and, in 1992, Lenko supplied the first two fully automatic snow gun systems to ski resorts Ischgl and Scheffau in the Austrian Alps.

In 1993 Lenko launched two very modern manual snow guns – the Lenko 940 and Lenko 950.

As the export market grew rapidly during the 90s and required an ever-increasing presence in the respective countries, Lenko established several of its own subsidiaries in e.g. Austria, Italy, Switzerland and USA.

The development of automatic snow guns accelerated still more and around the new millennium two completely new Lenko snow guns – the Lenko FA and Lenko ST had their debut.

The great innovation was, however, Lenko’s new software program – SnowNet, which gave the facilities the means of controlling entire snow systems via a PC.

A striving for reduced environmental impact and reduced maintenance drives the development onwards and, in 2005, new generations of snow guns, without hydraulic control and oil-free compressors, made their appearance.