29/09/2008 | DITEC automatic doors welcome passengers on Mergellina cableway in Naples

Where there are entrances, there are Ditec automatic doors!

This time the location is Naples, on Mergellina cableway, which first opened in 1931, and connects Mergellina coastal area with Posillipo residential area.

Mergellina-Posillipo cableway has been reopened to the public a few days ago after being closed for a few months, required to carry out a general overhaul of the stations and the line, as well as to technically update all the systems. This installation has been commissioned to the Turin based company Agudio Spa, a real specialist in the provision of cableways and ski-lifts.
The 500 metres long line features a route with four stops and, in certain sections, the gradient is staggeringly high, exceeding 45%, with all the issues it entails in terms of system safety and efficiency.
Within the scope of updating the system, new automatic doors needed to be fitted to the cars and to some of the stations. This installation was carried out by Ditec, with the co-operation of Eurosistemi, owned by Giuseppe Berti, Turin based Ditec Expert Specialist and Agudio Spa.
This installation has proved to be highly “creative”, given that adapting Bis automations to the diagonally located cableway cars required a certain degree of reengineering and converting some standard components to “ad hoc” products.
The automations used for the car doors are the well established Bis O automations, whilst the entrance and exit doors at the top station have been fitted with BISV automations and DITEC PAM35F fully kitted door frames, with ASME and AST breakout wings, certified as emergency exits and enhanced with the installation of the new dual technology control and safety radars model PASAM24W – ACTIVE8.

The development and outcome of this further challenge taken up by Ditec will be described in details in the next October issue of the Nuova Finestra magazine. The author of this article interviewed Giuseppe Berti to find out the “secrets” of this unusual and extraordinary job order.
The end product is a great and interesting article, certainly well worth reading.
Do not miss the next issue of Nuova Finestra.