PARAMECANIC AB, in Norrtalje is a well-established innovation company within the sport of skydiving, specialized in flight instruments and safety-mechanisms for parachutes. 45 years with this sport has resulted in 29 patented inventions. Paramecanic’s puck shooting machine for training of ice-hockey goalies is one of these. in 1996 Goran Lilja, created a prototype of a Puck shooting machine completely built of wood, except the engine of course. It was a job for the carpenter – but the smith was on site to screw together prototype 2.
Prototype 2 was tested on the ice at Johanneshov Ice Arena, by Thomas Magnusson from team Djurgarden, who got a taste for it and in the autumn of 1997, the first machine in it’s completion was delivered to Balsta Hockey Club. Paramecanics machine was named PUCCO and is now on the market in four different models. There are currently around 150 examples of PUCCO 30, PUCCO 70 and PUCCO 90 combined, in Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Latvia, Norway, Slovakia, Slovenia, Belarus, Ungern, Romania, France, Austria, Russia, CZ Republic, USA, United Kingdom, Hong Kong, Kazakstan, Italien, Indien.
