Background - Liebherr

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How, when and why:

Our crane experts answer questions about crane technology, crane production or even crane families. There are certainly things here that you have always wanted to ask the experts.

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Advantages of the central lubrication system

Recently, we also started offering an optional central lubrication system for the undercarriage. Tobias Baumann, group leader in our undercarriage design and development department, explains how this came about and what advantages this system offers.

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Our customers – visionaries and “midwives”

At the end of 2004 we had a visitor from the Czech Republic at the Liebherr factory in Ehingen: Pavel Švestka, an industrious entrepreneur, with a pretty big wish in tow.

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Why new oil for the superstructure gearboxes?

At Liebherr we also work continuously on improvements which are often invisible at first glance.

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Top performance

Roland Bohnacker, Crawler Crane Development Manager, explains how the fixed jibs on our latest crawler crane models deliver top performance in every sense.

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Two booms for our LTC 1050-3.1

Our Technical Director, Dr Ulrich Hamme, explains why we developed the new boom.

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The history of the ballast trailers

Jens Könneker takes us on a journey into the past of the ballast trailers and gives us an outlook on their future.

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Changed axle layout on the new four-axle cranes

Jan Keppler explains why Liebherr has changed the layout of the axles in the new fout-axle cranes.

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Successful concept lattice boom mobile crane

The hundredth LG 1750 will be delivered in mid-2020. We asked Klaus Huberle, General Manager Crawler Cranes, why this crane concept is so successful.

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More and more powerful cranes

Bernd Boos, our Telescopic Crane Design Manager, takes a closer look at the question of why cranes are becoming more and more powerful even though the laws of physics never change.

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Two strong 5-axle cranes

Karl Stöhr, who has been jointly responsible for the successful mobile crane concepts for over 20 years, explains why we have chosen two powerful and modern 5-axle cranes in our product range.

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