Buckle up for a ride with us to projects and events heralding 2023. It has brought with it the rise of Liebherr-Electronics and Drives GmbH along with new milestones and performance records. Our slewing bearings reach new horizons ensuring the self-alliance of floating wind turbines offshore, while our digital cameras bring light into the hard-to-see areas of complex equipment, like tamping machines So tighten up your seatbelts to dive into these and other stories.

Join us off-highway to discover powertrain technologies that will play a major role in the future and get to know the challenges bound with them. As we move forward, get an in-depth look at our application-specific hydraulic solutions and discover the unlimited potential of fibre-reinforce composites. Our journey takes us further - from on- and off-shore wind farms up to mines - to see how to increase the lifetime of your wind turbines with our effective lubrication. To round the trip off, you will witness how crucial a reliable interaction of components is to ensure maximum benefits for your applications.

At one of the most significant events in agriculture and forestry, Agritechnica 2023, we pick up on the challenges the industry is facing, with price pressure and ever more stringent requirements in terms of the environment. To be competitive and to ensure a sufficient food supply of good quality for the ever-growing population, the global agricultural industry does not only require efficient, but also sustainable machines and solutions. These have to excel in performance, show robustness under the demanding operational conditions, be safe, “smart” and easy to maintain – to be jack-of-all-trades, so to say. The only question is how? Allow us to provide you with a sneak-peak on how our digital and drive components help to master these challenges and form the future of agriculture.

This time, we will show you how to harness the wind using our components for wind propulsion, in order to contribute to clean energy shipping. We will then lift the secret on how to make your applications safer, more flexible, efficient and cost effective with our digital clearance monitoring for bearings. Subsequently, we will reveal the potential of our drives in diverse applications to you and, finally, shed some light into the dark of underground mining, where our digital cameras come into play.

Be part of an enticing preview: delve into the world of digitalization - from the integrated digital measurement system for slewing bearings all the way to surround view solutions in the LiXplore© product family. Embark on a journey through our alternative powertrain solutions – be it mobile energy storage systems, electric drives or hydrogen internal combustion engines.

In this issue, we will not only tackle a wide range of applications, but also a broad spectrum of insights into our new products. While discovering this edition, you will get on the trail of pioneers revolutionising commercial shipping and find out, how our intelligent position transducer for hydraulic cylinders deals with extremely high breakout forces. You will see how our gearboxes contribute to weight saving, off-highway machines profit from great components, go beyond borders with services for the wind industry and explore your benefits with our hydraulic power units.

This time, we will take you behind the scenes of our Electronics Manufacturing Services and tell you the story of Liebherr's fuel injection technology in the US. Moreover, we will accompany you on a journey through our new production site for hydraulic cylinders in China and then to Siberia, where our gearboxes withstand the toughest conditions in one of Russia's biggest infrastructure project.

In this issue, you'll get an in-depth glimpse at our new Components' site in China and get into the new dimension with our main bearings for a major tunnelling project in Shanghai. We will then show you how we contribute to tomorrow's global service operation of wind turbines or climate-friendly injection technology. Last but not least, we will introduce our perfect couple –drives and bearings - in interaction and the newest member of our Components family – piston accumulators.

In this newsletter, we will give you an insight into the world of Liebherr-Components. Embark on an exciting journey through this fascinating world and explore most recent key topics: cooperations and partnerships, new product developments, the annual report 2019, upcoming trade shows and many more. Enjoy reading!

We will shed some light on how our drives equip the world's highest turntable ladders, our servo cylinders support a "six degrees of freedom" (6DoF) test rig our engineering solution come in handy in a transmission test bench. The cover story focusses thereby on the wind industry in Brazil and offers an insight into how Liebherr takes part in it, coping with local challenges.