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ACT
JULY 2013
SITE VISIT
LIEBHERR
Liebherr kicked off the
opening of its new Miami
facility with a German-
Latin American soiree
that featured impressive
demonstrations and
revealed the company’s
commitment to growing its
business in the Americas.
M
ore than 300 customers
and guests attended the
grand opening celebration
of Liebherr’s Miami sales and service
center on June 11. With a motto of “Meet
Diversity and Innovation,” the day-long
celebration featured tours, seminars and
performances that included traditional
German and Latin music and dancing, a
biergarten, plus engaging crane and reach
stacker demonstrations.
The grand opening event was held at
the new state-of-the-art facility located
in Hialeah Gardens just off Okeechobee
and the Florida Turnpike. The new facility
will serve as a major hub for Liebherr’s
maritime cranes division and will further
strengthen business relations to Central
and South America and to the Caribbean
region, the company said.
Latest technologies
Besides a variety of machines, including
a crawler crane, a piling and drilling rig,
reach stackers and mobile cranes, Liebherr
presented its newest technologies. One
of the highlights was a model of the
company’s new eco-friendly hybrid drive,
Pactronic, for mobile harbor cranes. The
Miami
hybrid drive system achieves increased
handling performance with reduced fuel
consumption.
“Pactronic is based on an additional
energy storage device (accumulator),” says
Erhard Frainer, managing director sales
construction machinery, Liebherr-Werk
Nenzing. “It is charged by recuperation of
reverse power while lowering the load. In
addition, the surplus power
of the primary energy
source is also used for
charging the accumulator.
In terms of turnover
capacity, that means a plus
of 30 percent compared to
a conventional machine
with equal power rating of
the primary energy source.”
He said that one in
five Liebherr mobile harbor cranes are
delivered with Pactronic and that the
technology has spread to additional
machines. The recently launched subsea
crane RL-K 7500 makes use of Pactronic
as does the new 330-ton capacity HS 8300
HD duty cycle crawler crane shown at
Bauma in April.
Also of interest at the new facility was
a new training tool, Liebherr’s range of
maritime crane simulators known as
LiSiM. The range of simulated cranes
includes ship to shore, rubber tire gantry,
mobile harbor and offshore cranes. The
More than 300 people
attended the grand
opening event in Miami.
Executives cut the ribbon, signaling the
official opening of Liebherr’s Miami, FL facility,
which will serve as a hub for the company’s
maritime cranes division. The company said
the facility will further strengthen business
relations in Central and South America and in
the Caribbean region.
