The Grandvalira ski area which now runs virtually all of Andorra's ski centres has announced an upgrade and expansion of its snowmaking.
"For the coming season, Grandvalitra wanted to strengthen its pumping capacities, optimize the management of water resources and also equip a new slope on the Seig sector located between the Canillo Forn and Forn Riba Escorjada sectors. The objective of the project is to further improve the snow guarantee, while offering even more optimal conditions to the resort's snow sports enthusiasts," a statement explained.
Grandvalira's operators have been working with snowmakers TechnoAlpin for 25 years on their snowmaking network.
The work involves the construction of a third water reservoir at the resort and two new pumping stations with a capacity of 150m3/h. These will give the system operators more flexibility of configurations to enable them to maximize snow production according to weather conditions and needs in the different sectors of Grandvalira.
The new slope will have 23 of the latest generation snow guns, TL8 lances with Smart Distributor, installed.