The new optional equipment “midfall” is now available for Liebherr lift cranes with up to 300 t capacity, making them even more flexible in their adaption to various job requirements.

For the third time running, TTF Liebherr Ochsenhausen has won the German Table-tennis Cup.

Liebherr-Aerospace has joined with Diehl Avionik Systeme, Thales and Zodiac to form a company dedicated to providing customer service for Airbus operators.

From 12th November 2004 on, the Liebherr homepage will also be available in Chinese.

In 2004 the Liebherr Group of Companies expects turnover to increase by at least 8 % to more than 4.4 billion Euro.

The marine contractor "Josef Möbius Bau Aktiengesellschaft", headquartered in Hamburg, received recently a Liebherr marine excavator P 995 Litronic. With this event, Liebherr extends further its leading market position in this highly specialized business segment.

In the first half of 2004 the Liebherr Group increased its turnover by 9 % compared with the same period of the previous year. The increase in turnover for the complete 2004 calendar year is expected to exceed 5 %.

Recently Liebherr-Werk Nenzing GmbH received the order for the supply of the 100th harbour mobile crane, type LHM 400 from the Iranian "Ports and Shipping Organisation"

Liebherr-Werk Nenzing GmbH has received orders for the delivery of a total of 8 harbour mobile cranes to 5 different ports in India and achieved at first go the market leadership within this product range on the subcontinent.

Close to Helsinki, Liebherr has opened a new sales and service centre for the growing Scandinavian market for earth-moving machinery .

At a newly built production plant in Dalian, China, Liebherr has begun to build hydraulic excavators for the Chinese market.

Liebherr has introduced the container reachstacker LRS 645 which is designed to lift containers as heavy as 45 metric tons into heights up to stacks of six containers.

TTF Liebherr Ochsenhausen has won the German table tennis championship for the third time.

The Graz football club Liebherr GAK has won the Austrian National League championship for the first time.

Youngjin Enterprise has recently introduced a Liebherr harbour mobile crane, type LHM 400G, in order to cope with the increasing freight in port Inchon, Youngjin.

On April 29, 2004, Liebherr opened a new sales and service centre for its construction machinery business area in Hungary.

The 2004 ‘Bauma’ was a record-breaking trade fair for Liebherr, in terms of the number of visitors, their informed interest in the company’s products – and the volume of orders taken

The largest crane on display at the 2004 ‘Bauma’ trade fair, the Liebherr 630 EC-H 40 Litronic top-slewing crane, has been sold to Nagel-Baumaschinen GmbH of Ulm, Germany.

The hundredth LTM 1500 mobile crane built at the Liebherr plant in Ehingen, Germany was handed over to the Dutch Mammoet company on April 1st at the ‘Bauma’ trade fair in Munich.

At the 2004 ‘Bauma’ trade fair Liebherr has received the "Euro Test Prize 2004" from the German civil engineering industrial accident organisation for its LIKUFIX hydraulic quick-change system with automatic hydraulic coupling.

The Liebherr Group’s expectations were fully satisfied in the 2003 business year. A slight increase in turnover proved possible, and both investments and the size of the workforce increased.

The new Liebherr LTM 1220/1 mobile crane is also a logical development of the traditionally successful Liebherr five-axle crane. By fully utilising the total weight limit of 60 tonnes for a 12-tonne axle load in order to obtain the maximum lifting capacity with a 60 m long telescopic boom.

Liebherr has extended its range of heavy lifting cranes with the LG 1750 lattice-tower mobile crane, which is being presented to the public for the first time at this ‘Bauma’ exhibition.

The Liebherr HS 855 HD hydraulic crawler crane, a model of the innovative ‘5’ series, is shown at the 2004 ‘Bauma’ with a mechanical diaphragm-wall grab.

The new compact three-axle Liebherr mobile crane with a maximum load capacity of 55 tonnes is also being shown to the public for the first time at the 2004 ‘Bauma’.

The world’s largest mining truck, with a diesel-electric driveline, has arrived in Munich. Liebherr will exhibit this giant machine at the ‘Bauma’ exhibition to be held at the end of March.

During last year Liebherr delivered two harbour mobile cranes type LHM 250 and LHM 150 to Canada.

On February 26, 2004, Liebherr opened a new sales and service centre for its construction machinery business area in the Czech Republic.

The Liebherr-Mietpartner construction machinery rental system was expanded on January 1, 2004 to include Italy, Spain and Portugal.

A newly developed Betomat I-M mobile tower mixer is being exhibited at the ‘Bauma’ for the first time.

At the 2004 ‘Bauma’, Liebherr is exhibiting a newly developed carrier unit for special, the LRB 125 pile-driving and drilling rig. The LRB 125 is in the 40-tonne class and is particularly notable for its compact construction, flexibility and above-average performance.

Liebherr is presenting over 70 exhibits on a stand covering more than 10,000 square metres at the 2004 ‘Bauma’, which runs from March 29 to April 4 in Munich.

Liebherr's 2003 turnover totalled approximately 4 billion (thousand million) Euro, a figure that is expected to be higher in 2004.

Three Betomix mixing plants are being used in the construction of the Se San 3 river dam project in Vietnam.

In autumn 2003, 57 youngsters began an apprenticeship at Liebherr in Austria.

The "Mobilmix 2.25" mobile mixing plant from Liebherr supplies concrete to the construction site for the new "Allianz Arena" soccer stadium in Munich, Germany.

In the course of its complete redesign, the Liebherr Group’s homepage now includes a comprehensive job portal including scope for online application.

The new IceMaker from Liebherr ensures not only an ample stock of ice cubes, but also replenishes the supply fully automatically.

From 2004 on, when purchasing a new refrigerator and freezer, the customer can identify models with the lowest energy consumption.

At the 2003 EMO exhibition in Milan, Italy, the LCS 300 generating and profile grinding machine attracted the interest of visitors.

Liebherr-Aerospace Lindenberg GmbH secured the order for developing, manufacturing and integrating the Aermacchi M-346 military training aircraft’s main undercarriage.

A total of 22 Liebherr Tower-Cranes are on the job at the construction of the new "Allianz-Arena" football stadium in Munich. This stadium is designed for crowds up to 66,000 and with be one of the sites for the 2006 Football World Championship in Germany.

If water containing cement from residual concrete recycling plant cannot be re-used, it can be passed through Liebherr’s new water treatment plant (LWA).

A compact service and heavy-duty crane for the erection and maintenance of wind power generators is a new Liebherr development.

Liebherr Nenzing-Serivce GmbH has enlarged its servicing premises and moved into a new office and factory building in Hamburg-Harburg.

Liebherr-Mietpartner supports the construction company Kirchhoff-Heine. For the renovation of the northern runway at Frankfurt Airport.

Liebherr-Mietpartner rental system currently offers some 2,500 Liebherr earthmoving machines for rental in Germany.

The new LTC 1050 compact mobile crane with a load capacity of 50 t and a travel speed of up to 76 km/h has been added to Liebherr’s range of three-axle mobile cranes in the 45 to 55 t load-capacity category.

Eight Type L 574 wheel loaders were supplied to the German Army for use on KFOR and SFOR missions.

The Liebherr EC-HM is a new top-slewing crane series featuring continuously variable drives in all cases and exhibiting a high degree of modularity.

The two new dozers, the PR 724 Litronic and PR 734 Litronic , now introduced by Liebherr, are the first models in the new Series 4.

The first “new look” LHM 500 harbour mobile crane was handed over recently to the Buss Kuhwerder Terminal in Hamburg (Germany).

At the ground-breaking ceremony for the new Liebherr plant in Rostock, North Germany, on September 16th, Liebherr Group proprietors Isolde Liebherr and Willi Liebherr were able to welcome Federal German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, Federal German Transport Minister Manfred Stolpe and State Prime Minister Harald Ringstorff as their guests of honour.

Long operating life and minimum maintenance effort were the targets when the entire Liebherr truck mixer model programme was revised and updated.

Liebherr has now closed the gap between its six-axle 300-tonne and eight-axle 500-tonne mobile cranes with the new seven-axle LTM 1400/1.

Liebherr presents the new 32 TTR and 42 KR fast-erecting cranes with crawler-track undercarriage.

Bavaria’s Prime Minister Dr. Edmund Stoiber visited Liebherr-Aerospace Lindenberg GmbH recently to gather detailed information on the situation of the aviation and space industries.

The new unloading port in Gresik, Indonesia, has decisively improved the infrastructure for local industry.

In the autumn of 2003, 173 young people in Germany embarked on vocational training with Liebherr.

Russian manufacturer Suchoi has entrusted Liebherr-Aerospace with the development and production of systems to be installed in its new RRJ regional passenger aircraft.

The two largest models in Liebherr’s harbour mobile crane range have been redesigned and now offer a number of additional practical advantages.

Semi-trailers are being used more and more often for concrete transportation, because of their higher payloads and greater flexibility.

In 2002 the market for all-terrain cranes dropped in volume for the first time after some years of continuous growth. Liebherr’s 40 % share of this market puts it in an excellent position.

For the US market launch of the L 538, a limited edition in "Streak Design" was produced.

Eurocopter Deutschland GmbH is awarding orders to Liebherr-Aerospace to produce air conditioning and flight control systems for installation in the Tiger combat helicopter.