News and press releases

Liebherr-Aerospace’s Short Film Wins Worldfest’s 2019 Platinum Award

Liebherr-Aerospace, together with the film production company Silberstern, took home the highest award, Platinum, for the “Industrial/Technical” category at this year’s Worldfest Houston International Independent Film Festival. The short film shows Liebherr’s activities and capabilities of its landing gear in-service engineering team, which provides customers with guaranteed quality and innovative solutions throughout the whole life of the aircraft.

Delaware-based Active Crane Rentals taking delivery of LTM 1350-6.1 mobile crane

The company is about to grow again by adding a Liebherr LTM 1350-6.1 mobile crane to its fleet.

Prototype at the Bauma persuaded Friderici to order the Liebherr LTM 1650-8.1 mobile crane

Swiss crane and heavy haulage contractor Friderici Spécial SA Transports ordered an LTM 1650 8.1 at the Bauma. Liebherr unveiled its new 8-axle mobile crane at the trade show in Munich for the first time. The eight-axle crane is designed to deliver maximum performance. It continues the successful concept of its predecessor, the LTM 1500 8.1, featuring two telescopic boom versions – the LTM 1650-8.1 will be available with 54 and 80-metre telescopic booms.

Ideal Crane Rental taking delivery of three Liebherr LTM mobile cranes

Ideal Crane Rental is expanding its fleet in a powerful way by adding three Liebherr mobile cranes – an LTM 1450-8.1, an LTM 1160-5.2 and an LTM 1100-5.2.

New opportunities opening up for Port Esbjerg

The Port Esbjerg is gearing up for future business and opted for the world’s largest mobile harbour crane, the Liebherr LHM 800 with a maximum lifting capacity of up to 308 tonnes.

New opportunities opening up for Port Esbjerg

The Port Esbjerg is gearing up for future business and opted for the world’s largest mobile harbour crane, the Liebherr LHM 800 with a maximum lifting capacity of up to 308 tonnes.

Liebherr and Mac Port celebrate ten years of partnership

Liebherr and Mac Port are celebrating 10 years of trustful cooperation. Mac Port is the official partner of Liebherr and offers an extensive range of port machinery for quay, offshore and earthmoving activities in Italy.

Liebherr and Mac Port celebrate ten years of partnership

Liebherr and Mac Port are celebrating 10 years of trustful cooperation. Mac Port is the official partner of Liebherr and offers an extensive range of port machinery for quay, offshore and earthmoving activities in Italy.

Drilling for the Environment: so the Cycle Doesn’t Collapse

The upgrading of the waste water treatment plant “El Salitre” in Bogotá pursues an environmental concept: to reduce the pollution of the Río Bogotá and sensibly reuse the treated water. Liebherr contributes to this project in that the LRB 355 is carrying out the deep foundation work.

Drilling for the Environment: so the Cycle Doesn’t Collapse

The upgrading of the waste water treatment plant “El Salitre” in Bogotá pursues an environmental concept: to reduce the pollution of the Río Bogotá and sensibly reuse the treated water. Liebherr contributes to this project in that the LRB 355 is carrying out the deep foundation work.

Liebherr-Verzahntechnik GmbH takes over Wenzel GearTec GmbH

Liebherr-Verzahntechnik GmbH, whose range of products covers gear technology and the area of automation systems, purchases all the shares of Wenzel GearTec GmbH, a manufacturer of gear measuring machines.

Tandem hoist – motors weighing 165 tons loaded onto freighter

South German crane and transport contractor Scholpp obtained support from Kehl in the State of Baden-Württemberg for the first job for its brand new Liebherr LTM 1450-8.1 mobile crane. Together with an identical mobile crane operated by MSG-Krandienst, enormous motors designed for power generation were loaded onto a freighter in tandem hoists.

Liebherr receives follow-up order for bogie coupling systems for Prima H3 shunting locomotives from Alstom

Liebherr-Transportation Systems supplies further hydraulic bogie coupling systems for Prima H3 locomotives to Alstom.

Liebherr LAMC Aviation (Changsha) becomes official supplier of COMAC

The joint venture of Liebherr and LAMC has received the approval from COMAC and is now a qualified supplier of the Chinese aircraft manufacturer.

Liebherr LTC 1050-3.1 lowered to get through Ehrenbreitstein Fortress

A Liebherr LTC 1050-3.1 mobile crane had to complete several hoists at Ehrenbreitstein Fortress near Koblenz to erect and remove works of art weighing several tonnes. The compact crane had to pass through two narrow points en route through the massive defensive walls to the place of use. Things became particularly challenging for the driver and vehicle marshals in a 25 metre tunnel where the distance between the crane and the historic structure was just two centimetres in some places.

Densification, Inc. chooses Liebherr HS 8100 duty cycle crawler crane for luxury oceanfront residential project in Puerto Rico

Thirty two private oceanfront homes in Puerto Rico will have a firm foundation thanks to a Liebherr HS 8100 duty cycle crawler crane

AKM adds Liebherr LTM 1130-5.1 mobile crane to its fleet

AKM Autokranvermietung GmbH took delivery of a new Liebherr LTM 1130-5.1 mobile crane at the end of February. The Munich-based company is expanding its fleet with this new 130-tonne crane as it has been swamped with orders for crane work, particularly in the mobile crane class above 100 tonnes.

The first Liebherr LR 1800-1.0 crawler crane heads for Spain – Eurogruas 2000 takes delivery of its new 800-tonne crane at the Bauma

Eurogruas 2000 took delivery of the first new Liebherr LR 1800-1.0 crawler crane at the Bauma 2019. The 800-tonne crawler crane, the largest exhibit at the entire trade show, was delivered to the Spanish crane contractor immediately after the end of the Bauma event. Eurogruas 2000 purchased the new crane primarily for hoisting heavy loads. Its first job will be at a refinery in Portugal.