For more than 60 years the Liebherr name has stood for excellent, benefit-oriented products and services. The Group of companies is not only one of the world’s leading manufacturers of construction machinery but is also a leading supplier in numerous other technical fields such as the wind industry.
Liebherr is a powerful partner for the wind
industry and offers convincing solutions to
a variety of different requirements: On the one hand, components manufactured by Liebherr are installed directly into wind turbines, on the other
hand, the company’s mobile, crawler and offshore cranes are used for erecting wind turbines or constructing wind farms.
Offering large diameter bearings, slewing gearboxes, electric motors and hydraulic cylinders, Liebherr is the only manufacturer worldwide that can provide not only single components but entire systems for electromechanical and hydraulic pitch and also yaw adjustment in wind turbines.
One of the major elements of cooperation with customers from all over the world is application-specific engineering to perfectly adapt each of the components. In the wind industry, Liebherr collaborates with nearly all leading turbine manufacturers, and so far has equipped more than 10,000 wind turbines with its own components. The product portfolio comprises components for 800-kW plants up to solutions for multimegawatt turbines in offshore applications.
With their innovative technology, high quality and profitability as well as their longevity, mobile and crawler cranes from Liebherr own a leading position in the world market. For decades, they have also been proving their value in the construction of wind farms. As well as telescopic
mobile cranes, Liebherr can also provide lattice boom mobile cranes and crawler cranes to erect wind power systems, in a variety of performance classes, specifically matched to meet the needs of the wind power industry. Liebherr keeps pace with
the development of more and more powerful
and efficient systems, and increasingly high masts, by offering cranes with optimized performance and new jib systems, reaching very high lifting capacities.
Cranes on narrow crawler travel gears especially
developed for the construction of large wind farms can move on the narrow tracks from one unit to the next in full setup condition, meaning including jib and full ballast. This is especially economic,
because the machine and equipment have
to be mounted only once.
Liebherr has convincing solutions for the erection of offshore wind turbines, too. Heavy duty cranes from Liebherr for offshore applications are able to lift up to 3,000 tons.
When it comes to offshore cranes, all customer requirements can be met: Diesel or electrical drive units, explosion-protected cranes and cranes for ambient temperatures between +40 °C and -50 °C and special lifting heights situations at altitudes of up to 3,000 metres below sea level. Liebherr cranes are not only used successfully for the erection of offshore wind turbines, but also on oil and platforms, for offshore construction, pipe-laying or subsea operations.
