Liebherr USA, Co. hosts customer event

Liebherr USA, Co., Newport News, Va., recently hosted a customer day at the company’s newly expanded headquarters.

During the event, the company highlighted and demonstrated a diverse range of products across 10 segments including earthmoving, material handling technology, deep foundation machines, tower cranes, mining, mobile and crawler cranes, maritime cranes, concrete technology, components as well as refrigerators and freezers.

Liebherr USA, Co. also unveiled various new products to the U.S. market including:

• TA230 articulated dump truck
• LTM 1110-5.2 all-terrain crane
• LTM 1300-6.3 all-terrain crane
• LR 1700 crawler crane
• LR 1400 SX crawler crane
• LR 1250.1 unplugged crawler crane
• LRB 23 piling & drilling rig
• 36 XXT truck mounted concrete pump
• 80-LP line pump
• PR 776 dozer

Having formally moved into the expanded campus in April 2020, Customer Day also provided the opportunity to reveal the $60 million enhancement to the facilities, including a 60,000-sq.-ft. administrative building, an 82,000-sq.-ft. workshop and training facility, a 92,000-sq.-ft. parts distribution warehouse including retail operations, a one-story 7,500-sq.-ft. wash bay building and a guard house.

The new campus will help Liebherr serve customers across various product segments. It significantly increases production operations for concrete pumps and repair capacity for mobile and crawler cranes, as well as for construction equipment. The new shop also is equipped to handle the growing numbers of Liebherr earthmoving equipment.

“The investment in our new Liebherr USA headquarters and facilities represents our strong commitment to the US market. The new state of the art repair and training facilities as well as the new central warehouse are, in terms of size and technical standards, advanced and comply with current and future requirements of our customers, covering all ten product segments. This in combination with our highly qualified and motivated workforce perfectly serves and supports our customers in the USA,” said Kai Friedrich, managing director.