News Archives 2006
News Archives 2006

The complete Liebherr homepage is now also available in Russian language.

22/12/2006

Liebherr has been awarded an order to supply 12 tower cranes for the Costanera Center in Chile.

06/12/2006

With its R 9250 Liebherr introduces a new large hydraulic excavator for mining applications.

04/12/2006

The final of the Liebherr Crane Driver's Cup 2006 was held on 3 November in Biberach. 30 crane drivers from eight nations had qualified for the event.

30/11/2006

Willi Liebherr, graduate of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology and President of the Administrative Committee of Liebherr-International AG, Bulle (Switzerland), the holding company of the Liebherr Group, was recently awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Freiburg (Switzerland).

21/11/2006

In Tokyo Liebherr will introduce the new Generating and Profile Grinding Machine LCS 150.

20/10/2006

Several special Liebherr civil engineering machines are currently in operation on Europe’s largest harbour building site in Bremerhaven as part of the “CT 4” project.

26/09/2006
Liebherr will be showing the latest developments in the field of gear cutting at IMTS 2006 from 6 to 13 September in Chicago.
02/09/2006
The hundredth LR 1400 crawler crane was handed over to Brazilian customer LOCAR at the 2006 Customer Days at Liebherr’s Ehingen works.
15/08/2006

The Liebherr Group increased its turnover in the 2005 business year by 715.0 million € to 5,305.0 million €, thus exceeding the previous year’s turnover by 15.6 %.

11/08/2006
The largest tower crane ever built by Liebherr was put into operation some weeks ago at Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co. Ltd. in South Korea.
07/08/2006

Six Liebherr tower cranes in the EC-H series are currently being used to rebuild the renowned Hotel Moscow in the capital of Russia.

07/08/2006
Liebherr has signed a memorandum of understanding with Boeing to supply the air-management system for the new 747-8 airplane.
31/07/2006

Within the last six months Liebherr has received orders for 37 more of their Ultra Class T 282 B trucks.

29/06/2006
Liebherr-Aerospace has received the distinguished supplier award of the EADS Barracuda-Programme, an unmanned aerial vehicle, at ILA 2006 in Berlin.
19/05/2006
Liebherr has delivered 53 harbour mobile cranes during the past year whereby a clear trend for big machines could be noticed.
18/05/2006
In the ProCool Competition for energy saving and environmentally friendly commercial-use refrigerators and freezers Liebherr won three of the five awards
18/05/2006

In Rostock Liebherr has opened its new works for maritime cargo handling equipment in an official opening ceremony.

15/05/2006
The German Mining and Quarrying Industrial Insurers have presented a promotional award for the development of “ergonomic operator access on a mobile excavator”.
07/05/2006
Liebherr has delivered the second R 994 Litronic mining excavator to be built in Brazil.
14/04/2006
On 30 March, Liebherr officially opened a new plant for the production of precision parts for aviation equipment in Guaratinguetá in Brazil.
04/04/2006
At the end of March, more than 800 people visited the start of the Liebherr Roadshow 2006in Hungary. Until June, the construction machinery show will be stopping off at ten more locations in Austria and the Czech Republic.
29/03/2006
In January Liebherr-Aerospace Toulouse SAS has officially inaugurated a new production hall extending its Campsas plant .
12/01/2006