Intamin

Intamin Worldwide is a designing and manufacturing company in Wollerau, Switzerland. They are known for building thrill rides and roller coasters. The Intamin name stands for: INTernational AMusement INstallations. They distribute about 5-7 roller coasters from their workshops every year.

The first roller coaster they built was The Jr. Gemini (new name Wilderness Run) at Cedar Point in 1979. After that, they installed a total of 181 roller coasters around the world.

Roller coasters built by Intamin
 Year  Accomplishment  Ride  Location  Notes 1979  Intamin's first roller coaster  Wilderness Run Cedar Point  Steel children's coaster
 Formerly Jr. Gemini 1981  First wooden coaster built by Intamin  American Eagle Six Flags Great America Was the fastest, highest and longest coaster in the world; still is the fastest, highest and longest racing roller coaster 1985  First (and only) Spacediver coaster  Z-Force Six Flags Magic Mountain, Six Flags Great America and Six Flags Over Georgia Opened in '85 at Great America, was relocated to Over Georgia in '88, then to Magic Mountain and opened there as Flashback in '92; demolished and scrapped in mid-December 2007 after sitting idle since 2003
 First coaster to feature four-abreast seating 1997  First coaster to go above First coaster to go   Tower of Terror II Dreamworld  Not a complete circuit; the train does not reach the top of the vertical spike 1997  First coaster with a structure to reach beyond   Superman: Escape from Krypton  Six Flags Magic Mountain  Not a complete circuit; the train does not reach the top of the vertical spike; formerly Superman: the Escape 1998  First LIM launched inverted coaster  Volcano, The Blast Coaster Kings Dominion  Fastest inverted coaster at  when first opened 2000  First Giga Coaster (over 300 ft)First coaster to drop   Millennium Force  Cedar Point  First complete circuit coaster to stand over 300 ft (310 ft)
 Drop is exactly  2000  First LIM Twisted impulse coaster  Possessed Dorney Park  Previously operated at Geauga Lake as Superman: Ultimate Escape 2001  First coaster to utilize a LIM launch hill  California Screamin' Disney California Adventure Park Has a magnetic launch followed by a magnetic non-cable/chain lift hill (this along with "scream tunnels" was done to reduce noise)
 Currently the longest coaster with inversions 2001  First wooden coaster with prefabricated track  Colossos Heide Park Currently the tallest continuously-running wooden coaster in the world 2002  First coaster to do 10 inversions  Colossus Thorpe Park Has 10 inversions - in order: 1 Loop, 1 Cobra Roll (counts as 2), 2 Corkscrews, and 5 barrel rolls 2002  First hydraulic catapult launch coaster  Xcelerator  Knott's Berry Farm Accelerates from 0 to 82 miles per hour, covering 157 feet of launch track, in just 2.3 seconds 2003  First Strata coaster (over 400 ft)  Top Thrill Dragster  Cedar Point  Tallest and fastest coaster in the world when opened at  and  2004  First accelerator coaster to feature inversions  Storm Runner Hersheypark Reaches a height of 150 ft and catapults riders from 0 to 72 mph in 2 seconds
 Features a top hat and three inversions 2005  World's tallest coaster (2005–present); was world's fastest coaster (2005–2010)  Kingda Ka  Six Flags Great Adventure  456 feet high; launch speed  2007  First 4th Dimension design Ball Coaster by IntaminFirst Intamin coaster to include curved hydraulic chain lift hill  Kirnu Linnanmäki First compact 4-D coaster in the world
 Features redesigned restraints (lapbar with safety belt shoulder harness system) and non-friction magnetic brakes 2007  Intamin's first WingRide coaster Furius Baco PortAventura  Fastest coaster in Europe
 Accelerates from 0 to  in 3.5 seconds 2008  At 97 degrees, steepest drop of all Intamin coasters  Fahrenheit Hersheypark Ascends chain lift hill at a 90 degree angle
 Features a 121 foot Norwegian loop and six inversions2008  Record holder at the time for the steepest wooden coaster in the worldCurrently the highest, fastest, longest coaster in South Korea  T Express Everland  Maximum 77 degrees
 Height 183.75 ft (56.01m)
 Top speed 64.6 mph (104 km/h)
 Length 5383.10 ft (1641m)
 12 airtime hills2008  Denmarks fastest and tallest coaster, chosen as world's 5th best coaster Piraten  Djurs Sommerland Mega-Lite Coaster Datasheet for Mega-Lite coaster Download 
 Maximum 70 degrees
 Height 104.99 ft (32m)
 Top speed 56 mph (90 km/h)
 Length 2477.04 ft (755m)2010  World's first freefall drop coaster  Thirteen Alton Towers  Horizontal track falls vertically down in the crypt
 After being dropped you are flung into a backwards helix 2010  Current record holder for the world's fastest coaster  Formula Rossa  Ferrari World Top speed 2011  First ZacSpin built in the USA  Green Lantern: First Flight Six Flags Magic Mountain 

References

Other websites
Official website
Category:Manufacturing companies of Switzerland