July 07/23/2024
The Parque Aquatico water park near Amarante in northern Portugal – located 45 minutes from Porto – belongs to the French Looping Group. The drive to get there is impressive in itself. The unusual hillside location, 100 metres above the Tamega River, may not be the first choice for a park of ...
Wiegand.Waterrides is known for highly innovative novelties in the water slide segment. No wonder: Wiegand is the only manufacturer worldwide with high-quality stainless steel AND GRP water slides in its range.To expand capacity in the summer, Mr Steinhardt opted for stainless steel for the first...
February 02/05/2023
Wiegand.Waterrides is known for highly innovative novelties in the water slide segment. Interactive games on slides, individual and sustainable stainless steel creations, combinations, the revolutionary SlideWheel and currently the spectacular SlideCoaster with rapid LSM acceleration technology. ...
November 11/30/2022
At the largest trade fair in the leisure industry, IAAPA in Orlando, Wiegand.Waterrides presents a crossing in a water slide for the first time in its 40-year history as a waterslide manufacturer. For the first time in the history of the water slide Wiegand.Waterrides is known fo...
November 11/07/2022
At this year's "Interbad" industry trade fair for pool and water technic in Stuttgart, Germany from 25-28 October, Wiegand.Waterrides presented a contemporary, innovative way of saving energy. The concept, called "Insuflex", enables flexible insulation. The special feature: this method can even b...
July 07/15/2022
Wiegand.Waterrides GmbH was contracted to replace the aging slides of an existing tower at the large Ocean Adventure water park in South Korea. As a first step, three large slide experiences already opened in 2021: a three-lane mat tumble wave slide with a length of 77m as well as a three-lane, 1...
December 12/21/2021
PREMIERE IN BAVARIA
Stainless steel tumble wave slides are popular. In fact, it is still Wiegand.Waterrides' most popular product. These public favorites are available in different lengths, separated lanes - with and without waves - and with a classic plunge finale into a p...
Wiegand.waterrides GmbH was awarded 1st place for Europe’s Best New Water Slide in 2020 as part of the European Star Awards 2020. The awarded slide is located at Aquapark Reda in Poland and was put into operation on January 10, 2020. The team of Aquapark Reda named the slide Aquaspinner. The Sl...
Another giant water park of the OCT Group was opened on June 26, 2020 in Xiangyang, China. With 60 theme and water parks, OCT is the largest group in the industry in Asia. One of the highlights in this gigantic water park is the world's first 8-lane mat racer which is made entire...
Aquapark in Reda, Poland, inaugurated the first SlideWheel in Europe on January 10, 2020.
The SlideWheel - developed by wiegand.waterrides GmbH – is a combination of a Ferris wheel and a water slide offering a unique dimension of sliding which is not comparable to any other existing sli...
wiegand.waterrides GmbH received the IAAPA Brass Ring Award for the best new product concept. The award ceremony took place at the great IAAPA Gala last night in Orlando, Florida.
The new product is called SlideCoaster - a combination of roller coaster and water slide. It is the first coa...
May 05/13/2019
After over 12 years of successful, international and cooperative development of wiegand.maelzer GmbH, Mr. Rainer Maelzer has decided to leave the company by the end of May 2019.
With his extensive experience and professionalism, Rainer Maelzer succeeded in expanding the market position of...
November 11/26/2018
We went to the IAAPA tradeshow in Orlando hoping to win at least one of the big awards for our SlideWheel. In the end we were lucky enough to be presented with 3 of the most important prizes on offer at the IAAPA. At the WWA show in Las Vegas we already had fortune on our side as we received the WWA...