Press releases | 2019-06-04

Liebherr-Aerospace’s Short Film Wins Worldfest’s 2019 Platinum Award

Liebherr-Aerospace, together with the film production company Silberstern, took home the highest award, Platinum, for the “Industrial/Technical” category at this year’s Worldfest Houston International Independent Film Festival. The short film shows Liebherr’s activities and capabilities of its landing gear in-service engineering team, which provides customers with guaranteed quality and innovative solutions throughout the whole life of the aircraft.

The renowned and award-winning film production company Silberstern, based in Kempten (Germany), created the film in close cooperation with its customer Liebherr-Aerospace Lindenberg GmbH, Liebherr’s center of competence for flight control, landing gear, gears, gearboxes and electronics.

When watching the video, one can easily see why the film was such an instant and sensational success. Silberstern's belief that “movie is emotion” clearly comes to life in this short video, as they precisely captured Liebherr-Aerospace's characteristics in this production, worthy of the most prestigious level of award at the Festival.

From the moment of clicking the “Play”-button, Liebherr's values are evident in this creative and eye-catching short piece: To always strive for customer satisfaction as well as for excellence while looking constantly for innovative solutions, further improvements, and, most importantly, the value that the company places in its biggest asset – its forward-thinking and passionate employees.

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The Worldfest Film Festival, founded 57 years ago, is the oldest independent film festival in the world and it is remarkably competitive. In fact, the festival is one of the top three most competitive international film festivals in North America. Winning an award from this prestigious organization is not a small feat, as they receive roughly 4,500 films from all over the globe annually, and only about 15% meet the strenuous criteria to be worthy of an award.

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, gears and gearboxes, landing gear and air management systems as well as electronics. 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 5,800 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), Montreal (Canada), Hamburg (Germany), Moscow (Russia), Dubai (UAE), Bangalore (India), Singapore and Shanghai (People’s Republic of China).