News and press releases

Liebherr Mining Equipment Newport News Co. Awarded the 2014 Award for Excellence by the Balanced Scorecard Institute

The company received this award for the development and deployment of a comprehensive strategic planning and management system in order to affect company-wide transformation and change.

Liebherr Mining Equipment Newport News Co. Awarded the 2014 Award for Excellence by the Balanced Scorecard Institute

The company received the Award for Excellence by the Balanced Scorecard Institute for the development and deployment of a comprehensive strategic planning and management system in order to affect company-wide transformation and change.

Five large tower cranes operating in Chile's Atacama Desert

The five 1250 HC cranes used at two mining projects in Chile have one of the highest lifting capacities of any tower cranes in Latin America

Five large Liebherr tower cranes used for mining in the Atacama Desert, Chile

Five Liebherr 1250 HC tower cranes are being used at two mining projects in the Atacama Desert in Chile. These large 40 and 50-tonne versions have one of the highest lifting capacities of any tower cranes in Latin America.

Liebherr at the 2014 ISRI Convention and Exposition in Las Vegas, USA

Liebherr will exhibit a diverse range of material handling equipment at the 2014 ISRI Convention and Exposition, the world’s largest scrap recycling industry convention, to be held at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, from April 8 to 10, 2014.

Liebherr supplies anti-buckling systems to Solaris Bus & Coach S.A.

Liebherr-Transportation Systems has been selected to supply anti-buckling systems for 18 low-floor tram vehicles, which will be operated in Braunschweig (Germany).

Sibelco Deutschland choose Liebherr crawler excavators

Three R 946 crawler excavators for use in surface clay mining in the Westerwald region

Liebherr-Aerospace Singapore Receives DIN EN ISO 14001 Certificate

Liebherr-Aerospace Singapore’s newly established environmental system for the maintenance, repair and overhaul of aircraft components has recently been certified according to the worldwide standard ISO 14001:2004.

Georg Moll Tief- + Straßenbau receive five new Liebherr wheeled excavators

Georg Moll Tief- + Straßenbau GmbH + Co. KG from Gruibingen accepted delivery of five new wheeled excavators at the Liebherr factory in Kirchdorf/Iller

Liebherr heavy lift offshore crane starts operation in Global Tech I

In early March Liebherr’s new heavy lift offshore crane CAL 45000-1200 Litronic® successfully started with the installation of AREVA Wind’s rotor stars in the North Sea wind park Global Tech I. The crane which was built at the Liebherr MCCtec Rostock GmbH and assembled at the Crist shipyard in the Polish town of Gdynia is part of the jack-up vessel Vidar belonging to Hochtief Solutions.

Liebherr takes on the development of engines for KAMAZ

The Russian company KAMAZ OJSC and Liebherr-International AG signed an agreement on 25 March 2014 for the development of new inline diesel and gas engines.

Learjet 85 Aircraft First Flight with Liebherr-Aerospace Technology on Board

Liebherr-Aerospace supplies key systems for Bombardier Aerospace’s latest business jet, the Learjet 85* aircraft, which successfully made its maiden flight on April 09, 2014 − the integrated air management system and the high lift system, both including the related controls.

Engines from Liebherr for successful Kamaz racing trucks in Dakar rally

Among the 75 trucks that took up the starting position in January 2014 for the Dakar rally, five were trucks from Kamaz Master, the motor sport team from the Russian company Kamaz OJSC. Three of the trucks were equipped with 8-cylinder engines from Liebherr.

Liebherr refrigerators and freezers receive Red Dot Design Award 2014

Two appliances won the coveted design award this year in the product design category.

Liebherr-Aerospace at the MRO Americas 2014

At this year's event, the company will present a broad range of its customer services.

Six Truck-Mounted Concrete Pumps for the Largest Concrete Pump Operator in Great Britain

Single largest customer order placed for Liebherr-Betonpumpen GmbH since their takeover of concrete pump manufacturer Waitzinger in October, 2012

Analytica 2014: Liebherr presents refrigerators and freezers

Auf der internationalen Leitmesse für Labortechnik, Analytik und Biotechnologie in München stellt Liebherr vom 1. bis 4. April 2014 Kühl- und Gefriergeräten für den Einsatz im Labor- und Medizinalbereich vor.

Liebherr to invest over 200 million CHF at its Bulle plant

Over the next six years, the Liebherr Group is set to invest more than 200 million CHF in its development and production site at Bulle (Switzerland).