- Partek
Partek Ski Lifts was a
chairlift manufacturer based inPine Island, New York . It was founded in1996 as the successor toBorvig , who went out of business in1993 . The company was founded by Hagen Schulz, the son of Borvig's President Gary Schulz. The company was also the official parts distributor for Borvig lifts.In
2004 Partek had announced that it was developing adetachable chairlift system, however, development was ceased when the company was purchased.In
2005 , the company was purchased byDoppelmayr CTEC . Also included in the purchase were Partek's rights to Borvig lifts. After the purchase, Partek president Hagen Schulz became a sales consultant at Doppelmayr CTEC, and started a new company, Ski Lift Parts Inc.In its 9 years as a lift manufacturer, Partek installed 24 lifts in North America.
Other companies
There is also a completely unrelated (and currently operating) company called "Partek" that sells statistical software used by scientific researchers for
Data mining andpattern recognition [http://www.partek.com/] . Their software has found a particular niche in the analysis ofDNA microarray data in the field ofGenomics [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pmc&cmd=search&term=partek] , because it can performMultidimensional analysis of fairly large data sets on an ordinary desktop computer. A number of pharmaceutical andbiotechnology companies use Partek software [http://www.partek.com/html/company/customer.html] .External links
* [http://www.SkiLiftParts.com Ski Lift Parts Inc.]
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