Maxpull winch was adopted for the ski jump platform at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics!
2018/02/09
Stretch windbreak nets protecting athletes who are “challenging the extreme cold and strong winds of Pyeongchang”.
MAXPULL WINCHES used at the Nagano Olympics
“Alpensia Ski Jumping Center” where there was jump ramps for the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics. The wind is blowing at 8-10 m/s in winter and gust wind speed becomes 15-16 m/s.
◆ “Decrease the wind speed 10 m/s to 3 m/s”
If athletes fly in the air with that strong wind, athletes lose their balance and safety concerns arise. Federation Internationale de Ski (FIS) made a strict demand, “Reduce wind by 70%, if the wind speed is 10 m/s, keep it under 3 m/s”. Those who dared to challenge the demand were a tag team of an architect Yoshito Akabane, MAXPULL MACHINERY & ENGINEERING CO., LTD., and NAKADA INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
An architect Yoshito Akabane and MAXPULL MACHINERY & ENGINEERING CO., LTD. had the experience of introducing windbreak nets for the first time in Japan at “jump ramp in Hakuba” where there was a competition venue of Nagano Olympics held in 1998. The mighty force of nature is added to windbreak nets filled with wind. What was chosen to stably raise, fix, and descend the net was MAXPULL electric reciprocating traction winch EME-1300 type.
It is a winch filled with technology and experience of MAXPULL MACHINERY & ENGINEERING CO., LTD. that is unparalleled in the world such as , , . In order to realize a superior system with which a net automatically lifts with power of EME-1300 type in conjunction with an anemometer to block wind, 20 products were shipped to Pyeongchang.
◆ Length: 255 m, height: 25 m
The windbreak net that was completed by the construction of NAKADA INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD., boasting Japan’s No. 1 market share in the land-based network field, were installed to the left and back of the athletes surrounding a jump ramp. It was a huge net whose length was about 255 m in total and the max height was 25. This huge net was shown many times in the background of the jumping athletes during televised Olym
