About us
Kahlbacher. Safe and snow free
Goodwill and a passion for advanced technology: these are the foundations of our long-standing and positive relationship with our customers. Companies from road, rail and airport management, as well as cable car operators trust us and our machines, which are manufactured to face any challenge. Many for more than 50 years. We enjoy the trust of our customers because we do what we do best in a way that only we know how.

Horst & Christian Kahlbacher
EFFICIENT. DURABLE. COMFORTABLE.
The main feature of equipment is their outstanding quality standard: maximum operational safety, high working comfort, above-average service life as well as excellent clearing performance and economy. All this is guaranteed by the most modern production methods and our highly trained specialist staff.
Prompt and professional: Our flexible product support and repair service ensures satisfied customers in Austria. In addition, a dense network of trained partners in export countries keeps our foreign customers happy.
MADE IN AUSTRIA
All Kahlbacher products are developed and manufactured entirely in Austria.
We have two production sites in Kitzbühel. This is where planning, construction and sales take place. Customers in particular benefit from our location, which is advantageous in terms of transport.
The Kahlbacher plant in Amstetten was built in 1976 as a service center in eastern Austria and expanded and modernised in 2018 with an approximately 800-square-metre production extension.
Kitzbühel

Amstetten

Kitzbühel

History
PIONEERING SPIRIT, INNOVATIVE STRENGTH, FUTURE ORIENTATED
It was Toni Kahlbacher, Technical Counsel and founder of our company, who played a decisive role in shaping the history of snow clearing. Today, after 70 years, no other name is as closely connected with the subject of winter services as Kahlbacher.
The success story as a complete supplier of technically advanced clearing equipment for roads, rails and airfields, as well as for the processing of ski slopes began in 1949 in Kitzbühel, the home of the founder. Since 1976, our customers have also been served by our second plant in Amstetten.

Kahlbacher - A success story
1949
Company foundation in the private home of Toni and Marianne Kahlbacher in Kitzbühel/Austria

1949
1951
First successes with construction machines and concrete mixers

1954
First production plant was built (plant 1)

1954
1955
The first Kahlbacher snow ploughs

1960
Innovation in winter service with the first automatic Kahlbacher sand spreader

1960
1960
First drum snow cutter with its own drive engine

1968
One of the very first snow groomers: Kahlbacher "Schneewiesel"

1968
1978
Beginning of a new era: High performance snow blower KFS 145 for airports

1981
Production plant 3 was built in Kitzbühel

1981
1988
Inauguration of the new production plant (plant 2) in Amstetten/Austria

1991
Presentation of high speed snow blower type KFS 160

1991
1995
ISO 9001 certification

1997
More convenience for airport passengers by the passenger stair Jet Step

1997
2000
The first snow ploughs of the PRAXOS and VAMPIR-family were developed

2006
Further development on the airport sector: High performance snow blower KFS 170 M2

2006
2009
Highway snow plough ASP

2013
Rebuilding of plant 3 in Kitzbühel/Austria

2013
2013
Snow power sweeper for railways SPS 245

2014
Snow power sweeper for airports SPS 530

2014
2018
Rebuilding and expansion of plant 2 in Amstetten/Austria

2019
70 years anniversary

2019
2020
New standards for airports: High performance blower G2
