Liebherr-Werk Nenzing is celebrating the receipt of an order for its thousandth mobile harbour crane. In the second half of 2012, Liebherr will deliver this milestone mobile harbour crane to Montoir Bulk Terminal in France.
Soon after achieving its second-best annual result in history, Liebherr has had an impressive start to 2012, with this sale of its 1,000th mobile harbour crane. The company’s huge success is based on a constant process of technical improvement as well as an uncompromising commitment to highest quality standards.
INCREASING DEMANDLiebherr has 38 years of experience in the mobile harbour crane business. In 1974, when it entered the market, demand for mobile harbour cranes was small. After 20 years of moderate but constant business, Liebherr made its 100th LHM delivery in 1994. The same year marks a significant turnaround, with annual deliveries being double-digit for the first time.
In 1996, the type LHM 400 was launched, which is to date the bestselling LHM model. Due to an impressive 250 deliveries, this model accounts for about one quarter of all LHMs ever supplied. Its successor, type LHM 420, was introduced into the market in 2011 and can be equipped with Liebherr’s state-of-the-art Pactronic
® hybrid drive system.
Thanks to a year by year increase in deliveries, Liebherr received an order for its 300th LHM in 2001. At that time, nearly 50 cranes were delivered each year. Accordingly, the 500th Liebherr mobile harbour crane was handed over in 2005, which was one year after market launch of Liebherr’s reachstacker LRS 645. In the following years, annual order volume has been increasing steadily, mainly due to the market introduction of various highly competitive models, like the LHM 600 in 2006.
Liebherr launched its new lightweight series in 2008, which has been the most successful year so far, with annual deliveries being triple digit for the first time. The year after, Liebherr supplied its 800th LHM. Thanks to the market introduction of two new models, LHM 420 and LHM 550, Liebherr reached sales of 1,000 just three years later. The recent and very successful launch of above-mentioned new types provides a solid and promising base for future growth.
The exponential increase in demand for Liebherr models is remarkable. While it took 31 years to sell the first 500 Liebherr mobile harbour cranes, it has taken less than seven years to sell the next 500. This is testament to the enduring increase in demand for flexible cargo handling solutions.
1000TH LIEBHERR MOBILE HARBOUR CRANEThe customer to order this milestone unit is Montoir Bulk Terminal, a subsidiary of the SEA-invest Group, which is one of the world’s largest terminal operators for dry bulk, fruit and liquid bulk. SEA-invest Group operates 25 ports spread across three continents.
Their new crane, type LPS 550, has a maximum lifting capacity of 144 tonnes and a boom length of 48 metres. The tailor-made portal solution allows for customer’s needs and concurrently ensures maximum efficiency. The crane is equipped with the unique Pactronic® ststen. This innovative hybrid drive system boosts performance and reduces emissions at the same time, each by 30%. The green advantage of Pactronic
® goes hand in hand with Sea-invest Group’s business policy which highlights paying attention to the environment. Additionally Sea-invest has equipped its new machine with an electronic drive, which allows
for an even more eco-friendly crane operation. Receiving order for this anniversary crane underlines the
satisfaction of Liebherr customers who are confident in the company’s innovative product range and consistently choose Liebherr products.
ABOUT THE COMPANYThe Liebherr Group comprises more than 120 companies in every continent of the world and employs a workforce of nearly 33,000 people. In the past few years the Liebherr Group has undergone dynamic development and in 2010, achieved a total consolidated turnover of about €7.6 billion.
The Liebherr Group’s holding company is Liebherr- International AG in Bulle, Switzerland, which is entirely owned by members of the Liebherr family. The family business is already in the hands of the second generation, and is jointly managed by Dipl.-Kfm. Isolde Liebherr and her brother Dr.h.c. Dipl-Ing. (ETH) Willi Liebherr.
Liebherr-Werk Nenzing GmbH, Nenzing (Austria), is the largest maritime crane production site. Nenzing is head of the divisional control company, the Liebherr-MCCtec GmbH, which is responsible for the Liebherr range of maritime cranes. The Liebherr-Werk Nenzing GmbH manufactures and markets an extensive range of product lines including ship cranes, offshore cranes, mobile harbour cranes and reachstackers. On the international building machinery market Liebherr offers a broad range of universal duty cycle crawler cranes, lift cranes as well as foundation equipment.
The Nenzing plant co-ordinates further production sites in Sunderland (Great Britain) and Rostock (Germany) as well as fully owned sales and service organizations in Hong Kong (China), Hamburg (Germany), Amersfoort (Netherlands), Niederhergheim (France), Mumbai (India), Istanbul (Turkey) and Baku (Azerbaijan).