Liebherr
Equipment manufacturer company
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Liebherr (German: [ˈliːphɛʁ] ⓘ) is a German-Swiss multinational equipment manufacturer based in Bulle, Switzerland, with its main production facilities and origins in Germany.
Logo since 2021 | |
 Liebherr in Gillette, Wyoming, U.S. | |
| Company type | Aktiengesellschaft |
|---|---|
| Industry | Heavy machinery Domestic appliances |
| Founded | 1949 Kirchdorf an der Iller, West Germany |
| Founder | Hans Liebherr |
| Headquarters | , Switzerland |
Key people |
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| Products | Construction and agriculture machinery, refrigerators |
| Revenue |  €14.042 billion[2] (2023) |
| €603 million[2] (2019) | |
| €367 million[2] (2023) | |
| Total assets | €16.404 billion[2] (2023) |
| Total equity | €8.901 billion[2] (2023) |
Number of employees | 53,659[2] (2023) |
| Website | liebherr |
Liebherr consists of over 130 companies organized into 11 divisions: earthmoving, mining, mobile cranes, tower cranes, concrete technology, maritime cranes, aerospace and transportation systems, machine tools and automation systems, domestic appliances, and components. It has a worldwide workforce over 53,000, with fourteen billion euros in revenue for 2023.[2]
Established in 1949 by Hans Liebherr[3] in Kirchdorf, Württemberg-Hohenzollern, West Germany, the business is still entirely owned by the Liebherr family. After his death in 1993, Isolde and Willi Liebherr, Hans' daughter and son led the company, becoming vice president and president of the administrative board respectively of the Switzerland–based Liebherr-International AG in 1999. In March 2023, Stéfanie Wohlfarth became vice president and Jan Liebherr president of the administrative board.[4] Isolde Liebherr and Willi Liebherr remain members of the administrative board[1][5] and several other family members are actively involved in corporate management. In 2005, Forbes magazine listed them as billionaires. In 1974, the Franklin Institute awarded Hans Liebherr the Frank P. Brown Medal.[6]
History
Hans Liebherr was drafted for military service in World War II. During the war, Liebherr served with the Ulm Pioneer Battalion 101, which was subordinate to the 101st Light Infantry Division and fought under Army Group South in the German-Soviet War. After the war, he started by building affordable tower cranes; Liebherr expanded into making aircraft parts, it is a significant supplier to European Airbus airplane manufacturer—and commercial chiller displays and freezers, as well as domestic refrigerators. The group also produces some of the world's biggest mining and digging machinery, including loaders, excavators, and extreme-sized dump trucks. The T 282 B is the world's second-largest truck (after BelAZ 75710). The group's nine-axle mobile crane, the LTM 11200–9.1—with a 100-metre (328 ft) telescopic boom—in 2007 received the heavy-lifting industry's Development of the Year award for being the world's most powerful example of such a machine. Another example is the LHM 600, which has been the largest mobile harbour crane in the United States since its delivery to Port Canaveral in 2019.[7]
Over the years, the family business has grown into a group of varied companies, and has locations in many countries, including Germany, Australia, Britain, Ireland, Turkey, and the United States. Since 1958, its Irish factory in Killarney, County Kerry, has built container cranes, exporting them worldwide through the port of Fenit. In Australia, the group in 2013 commenced an AU$65 million expansion of their local headquarters in Adelaide. The development includes adding a new three-storey office, workshops, warehouse, component plant, and distribution centre to the Para Hills facility.[8] In the U.S., the group in 2012 started spending US$45.4 million (about €34.1 million) on a three-year renovation and expansion of its Newport News, Virginia, factory, offices, and warehouse. The company sought to increase its production there beyond 100 mining trucks a year. On 19 February 2013, representatives from the Commonwealth of Virginia and the cities of Newport News and Hampton announced that they would make grants and incentives available for transport improvement, training, and property investment.[9] In addition, the Liebherr Group owns six hotels in Ireland, Austria and Germany.[10]
In April 2014, Liebherr announced that it would invest €160 million at its production site in Bulle.[11]
By 2017, Liebherr had expanded its workforce to 43,869 employees.[12] That same year, the company announced it had achieved the highest turnover in the Group's history, with sales of €9,845 million.[13] In 2018, Liebherr generated a turnover of €10,551 million, exceeding €10 billion for the first time in the company's history.[14]
In March 2020, Liebherr launched their first APAC HQ in Singapore,[15] alongside their bespoke $35,000 SGD Bespoke Luxe Refrigerator.[16]
Products
The line of products manufactured by the company includes:
- Earth-moving equipment
- Mining equipment
- Cranes: mobile, crawler, tower, maritime, mobile construction
- Diesel engines
- Deep foundation machines
- Concrete-handling equipment
- Material-handling equipment
- Electric motors
- Port (container-handling) equipment
- Machine tools
- Automation systems
- Domestic refrigerators and freezers
- Aircraft equipment
- Hotels
- Mechanical, hydraulic, electrical, and electronic components and subcomponents[17]
Gallery
On the right a Liebherr top-slewing crane of the EC-H Litronic series
Liebherr LTM 1500 telescopic crane
Liebherr T 282 B mining truck
Liebherr hydraulic shovel
Liebherr HS 895 Hydroseilbagger
Mock-up of the A350 nose gear at ILA 2012
Liebherr R926
Liebherr R934 Litronic
Truck with Liebherr concrete mixer
Liebherr LTM 1500–8.1
Liebherr-710 HC-L 32/64 Litronic tower crane
Liebherr LHM 400 harbor crane
Liebherr LR 13000 crawler crane
Domestic appliances (mainly refrigerators)
Airplane air-conditioning unit
Two Liebherr RL offshore cranes on the HVDC DolWin2 platform
A Liebherr LS ship crane
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