News | 03/28/2023 Liebherr tower cranes expands in Lyon area

  • Liebherr is moving its Saint-Priest agency to a new, larger site, still located in Saint-Priest in the area of Lyon
  • The Saint-Priest agency supports the activity of rental and sale of tower cranes throughout the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region
  • With the new agency, Liebherr doubles its outdoor storage area to 12,000 m² and benefits from 500 m² of workshop and offices

To support the continued development of tower crane sales and rental in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, Liebherr has moved its Saint-Priest agency to a larger location within the city. The opening of the new site near Lyon took place on 24 March 2023. The current fleet of Liebherr tower cranes rented in the region amounts to around 80 machines, including top-slewing cranes and self-erecting cranes of the latest generation.

The new Liebherr tower cranes agency in Lyon Saint-Priest extends over 12,000 m². Photo credit: Pierre-André Lichtfouse

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The new Liebherr tower cranes agency in Lyon Saint-Priest extends over 12,000 m². Photo credit: Pierre-André Lichtfouse

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The new Liebherr tower cranes agency in Lyon Saint-Priest extends over 12,000 m². Photo credit: Pierre-André Lichtfouse

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By increasing the outdoor storage area from 6,000 m² to 12,000 m², Liebherr is acquiring infrastructure to store up to 1,300 km of tower masts. A 500 m² building provides crane repair and maintenance. The loading and unloading area can accommodate up to ten trays simultaneously and install the self-erecting cranes on transport axles. A Liebherr 380 EC-B 16 Litronic crane with a 55 m jib and a hook height of 35 m effectively covers the handling area of crane components stored on site. In addition, a modern fleet management helps to ensure that customers receive exactly that crane that fits their needs.

Modern rental fleet

As a manufacturer, Liebherr has always seen rental as a privileged way to make its customers able to experience new products. The rental fleet in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes is very recent since its average age is around four years old. Liebherr offers its customers machines equipped with the latest technology, such as high-tensile fibre rope. Fibre cranes offer many advantages both in terms of improving load capacities and increasing the lifetime of the rope. For example, a 300 EC-B 12 Fibre crane has just joined the rental fleet and a 370 EC-B 12 Fibre crane has been sold for the Lyon-Torino railway job site.

Closer to customers in the area

The Liebherr agency in Saint-Priest relies on its own regional team as well as on a network of external partners made up of fitters, approved after-sales service partners, breakdown service providers and carriers in order to effectively network the territory. For sale or rental, Liebherr is thus able to offer personalized local service to all of its customers in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes sector. Thus, for its regional customers, Liebherr has been able to supply cranes on major projects such as the Tour To-Lyon, the Chambéry stadium, the Lyon-Turin rail link or even the Montenvers station in Chamonix.

Increasing success for K-type cranes

The Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region is a very dynamic sector for self-erecting cranes. Although the demand for mountain work sites is rather seasonal, it is very strong. Liebherr has equipped itself with Litrax high-speed axles to efficiently manage transport throughout the whole sector. These 80 km/h axles are equipped with directional wheels for exceptional manoeuvrability, pneumatic suspensions which compensate for variations in ground level.

The modular design of the Litrax axles makes it possible to transport L1 and K cranes; for which demand, in particular for the 81 K.1 and 125 K models, is increasingly sustained. Indeed, with its 55 m jib, a capacity of 8 tonnes and a hook height of 41.5 m in horizontal jib, the 125 K offers an alternative to tower cranes especially on cramped sites, difficult to access with a limited load requirement; such as renovation or civil engineering sites. The 125 K is the largest self-erecting crane model on the market.