The development of our first automated ski service machine at the beginning of the 1990s was a highly promising project.

The Micro Center, one of the first automated stone grinding machines, was introduced to the market in 1990, followed by the first fully automated ski servicing center Micro Jet Center – a huge plant with 10 processing steps – in 1991. It was spectacularly presented to the public at Skiservice Corvatsch, owned by Curdin Conrad, in St. Moritz. After the machines were unveiled and switched on, the guests looked on gripped with anticipation – only for nothing at all to happen for a full two minutes. Unfortunately the warm-up time needed by the waxing module had been overlooked during the event planning...

All the processing modules had been newly developed for the Micro Jet Center. and formed the basis for many other successful ski service machines. Only eight Micro Jet Centers were built in total; the time was not yet ripe for ski servicing systems on this scale. The next step in the evolution of automation solutions came in 1996 with the Shuttle 3C, a modular ski service station.