Press releases | 27/06/2017

Liebherr-Aerospace Receives Airbus Helicopters Supplier Awards

Airbus Helicopters has presented Liebherr-Aerospace Toulouse SAS for the third time in a row with the Award “Best Performer 2016 - Silver” in Customer Support & Services and Liebherr-Aerospace Lindenberg GmbH with the Award “Best Improver 2016 - Bronze” in Industrial Performance.

Liebherr-Aerospace has received two Supplier Awards from Airbus Helicopters during a ceremony at their plant in Dugny near Le Bourget, Paris (France) on June 20th, 2017.

In their speeches, Josef Gropper, Managing Director & COO Production, Purchasing and Asset Investments at Liebherr-Aerospace & Transportation Systems SAS, and Jean-Luc Maigne, Managing Director of Liebherr-Aerospace Toulouse SAS, thanked Airbus Helicopters for the recognition of the effort and commitment as well as the level of performance achieved by the teams of Liebherr-Aerospace.

These awards are encouraging Liebherr-Aerospace to keep on further improving the companies’ performance and to continue the partnership approach with Airbus Helicopters for these improvement initiatives.

Liebherr-Aerospace Toulouse SAS, Liebherr’s center of competence for air management systems and Liebherr-Aerospace Lindenberg GmbH, Liebherr’s center of competence for flight control and actuation systems, landing gears, gears, gearboxes and electronics, develop, manufacture, supply and provide customer services for various systems and components to almost all programs of Airbus Helicopters.

Liebherr-Aerospace is a leading supplier of systems for the aviation industry

Liebherr-Aerospace & Transportation SAS, Toulouse (France), is one of eleven divisional control companies within the Liebherr Group and coordinates all activities in the aerospace and transportation systems sectors.

Liebherr-Aerospace is a leading supplier of systems for the aviation industry and has more than five decades of experience in this field. The range of aviation equipment produced by Liebherr for the civil and military sectors includes flight control and actuation systems, landing gear, air management systems as well as gears and gearboxes. These systems are deployed in wide-bodied aircraft, single aisle and regional aircraft, business jets, combat aircraft, military transporters, military training aircraft, civil helicopters and combat helicopters.

Liebherr’s aerospace and transportation systems division employs around 5,400 people. It has four aviation equipment production plants at Lindenberg (Germany), Toulouse (France), Guaratinguetá (Brazil) and Nizhny Novgorod (Russia). These production sites offer a worldwide service with additional customer service centers in Saline (Michigan/USA), Seattle (Washington/USA), Montréal (Canada), São José dos Campos (Brazil), Hamburg (Germany), Moscow (Russia), Dubai (UAE), Bangalore (India), Singapore and Shanghai (People’s Republic of China).

Contacts

Ute Braam

Liebherr-Aerospace & Transportation SAS

Pfänderstraße 50-52
88161 Lindenberg
Germany