News and press releases

Disability Awareness Week at Liebherr-Aerospace in Toulouse

Liebherr-Aerospace Toulouse SAS participated in the National Disability Awareness Week from November 17 to 23, 2014.

Common Rail Systems from Liebherr for Engines with up to Five Liters of Displacement per Cylinder

Liebherr presents its Common Rail system platform 11.5 for the first time to the Asian market at the trade fair Bauma China 2014 in Shanghai from 25 to 28 November. The new platform is suitable for engines with up to five liters of displacement per cylinder. Start of series production will be in 2016. The system complements Liebherr’s Common Rail platform 11.2, which is suitable for engines with up to two liters of displacement per cylinder. Outstanding features are the injector without permanent leakage, the oil-lubricated high pressure pump with a maximum output of 900 liters per hour and the Liebherr engine control unit that is suitable for the toughest of environmental conditions.

First trial - Liebherr 1000 EC-B 125 Litronic Flat-Top crane erects wind turbine

The new 1000 EC-B 125 Litronic was recently used to erect an Enercon wind turbine in Wardenburg in the Rural District of Oldenburg. With a lifting capacity of 125 tonnes, this Flat-Top crane is the largest crane in the Liebherr Tower Cranes Division product range. First unveiled at the Bauma 2013, the largest trade fair for construction machinery in the world, the crane attracted a great deal of interest.

Liebherr-Aerospace Selected to Manufacture the Tail Rotor Gearbox for Airbus Helicopters’ X4

Liebherr-Aerospace Lindenberg GmbH, Lindenberg (Germany), will manufacture the gearbox at its production site in Friedrichshafen.

Official Opening of Liebherr-Aerospace China

The event has been celebrated on November 12, 2014, at Airshow China in Zhuhai (China).

Liebherr-Aerospace rewards its best suppliers

Liebherr-Aerospace Toulouse SAS has rewarded two suppliers for their excellent performance during the company’s supplier conference on November 18, 2014.

Liebherr-Great Britain Ltd. highly commended at Eleventh Annual National Apprenticeship Awards

Liebherr-Great Britain Ltd. was recognised on 13 November for their outstanding contribution to apprenticeships at the National Apprenticeship Awards 2014. The highly commended Liebherr-Great Britain Ltd. stood out from over 1400 entrants to receive their award.

40 Years of Liebherr Mobile Harbour Cranes

In 2014, the Liebherr Group celebrates the 40th anniversary of its mobile harbour cranes. Since 1974, this product has become an important part in the Liebherr portfolio.

Liebherr-Aerospace to supply test rig for flight control systems to Alenia Aermacchi

In addition, Liebherr will support the aircraft manufacturer in the development of a next-generation flight control system.

Liebherr-Aerospace China Receives EASA Certification

The Shanghai-based repair station for aerospace products has recently obtained its EASA Part-145 approval.

Electronics from Liebherr at the International Conference Agricultural Technology 2014

Liebherr will be represented at the VDI industry meeting point for agricultural technology in Berlin on 19 and 20 November 2014 with electronic solutions. This year, once again, about 500 international experts from the agricultural machinery sector will meet to discuss technical trends in the agricultural industry.

Liebherr-Aerospace Wins Another Contract in the A350-1000 Program

Liebherr-Aerospace has been selected to supply the load-sensing drive strut for the A350-1000 aircraft, thus increasing its scope of delivery for Airbus’ latest wide body program.

Liebherr-Aerospace to Supply FCS Test Rig to Alenia Aermacchi

Liebherr-Aerospace has been selected by Alenia Aermacchi to supply an FCS test rig capable of implementing load alleviation functionality and to provide engineering support for the development of a next-generation flight control system.

Zhejiang Liebherr Zhongche Transportation System Co., Ltd. delivers 5,000th heating, ventilation and air conditioning system

The unit is to be implemented in the Ningbo ML2 train.

Official Opening of Liebherr-Aerospace China

Liebherr-Aerospace has officially opened its new maintenance station in Shanghai (China). The event has been celebrated on November 12, 2014, at Airshow China in Zhuhai (China).

Liebherr-Aerospace Selected to Manufacture Tail Rotor Gearbox for Airbus Helicopters’ X4

Airbus Helicopters have awarded Liebherr a make-to-print contract to supply the tail rotor gearbox for its latest generation of X4 helicopters.

Brigitte Zypries visits Liebherr-Aerospace at the Airshow China 2014

Visit of Parliamentary State Secretary to the Liebherr-Aerospace stand together with members of a German delegation to the International Aviation & Aerospace Exhibition in Zhuhai (China).

Liebherr-Aerospace China Receives EASA Certification

Liebherr’s Shanghai-based repair station for aerospace products, Liebherr-Aerospace China, has recently obtained its EASA Part-145 approval.