No strangers to early mornings, the Apprentice Team from the Liebherr factory in Sunderland were offering an insight into their work at a breakfast seminar on March 24 as part of the “Brathay Apprentice Challenge”. Hosted by the Castle View Academy School, students were given an exclusive talk on apprenticeships and engineering. This one-off event was organized by the apprentices themselves and they spoke to approximately fifty students in Years 9 and 10. The “Brathay Apprentice Challenge” is supported by the National Apprenticeship Service and offers an enhanced apprenticeship, giving apprentices the chance to improve their team building, logistical, leadership and community skills.
Using a portable welding booth, the next generation of engineers were given the opportunity to try their hand at welding and the team from Liebherr offered expert guidance and advice on apprenticeships at the company. Stephanie Hogan HR Advisor from Liebherr Sunderland Works Ltd. commented: “The event was a great success and the students benefited greatly from the information provided by the young team from Liebherr.“

19/10/2026
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Liebherr LR 11350 erects the world’s tallest wind turbine
At the end of September, what is now the world’s tallest wind turbine was completed. A Liebherr LR 11350 crawler crane from Schmidbauer GmbH & Co. KG was used in the construction of the prototype of the so-called GICON high-altitude wind turbine in Lusatia, Brandenburg.

19/10/2026
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An investment of more than € 40 million euros, 12,000 m² of new space and 400 employees at the site by the end of 2026 are the impressive figures of Liebherr-Aerospace’s activities in Campsas, near Toulouse (France), where the company has officially opened its new industrial center of excellence for aerospace heat transfer equipment.

16/10/2026
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A historic suspension railway carriage is once again gliding through Wuppertal: using a Liebherr LTM 1450-8.1 mobile crane, Franz Bracht Kran-Vermietung GmbH lifted carriage 76, weighing around seven tonnes, into Wuppertal Central Station. Given the limited space available, precise operational planning and modern mobile crane technology were crucial.