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Landing Gear Overhauls Fuel Liebherr’s Growth In The U.S.

July 8, 2012

The aerospace and transportation systems division of the Liebherr Group represented only 11 percent of the multinational group’s 2011 turnover of €8.3 billion ($11.5 billion). And its customer service facility in Saline, Michigan, a city of 9,000 people near Detroit, is a long way from Liebherr’s headquarters in the picturesque town of Bulle, Switzerland. But the close embrace of the family-owned business was evident when Liebherr-Aerospace Saline inaugurated a new addition June 14.

Invited guests and customers filed past framed photographs in the Saline reception area of the late Hans Liebherr, who established the business in 1949 as a manufacturer of mobile tower cranes, and his son and daughter Willi and Isolde, who run it now from Switzerland. In attendance were the French and German leaders of the aerospace and transportation systems division, including Francis Niss, the Toulouse-based division president, and Arndt Schoenemann, who manages the division’s manufacturing plant in Lindenberg, Germany. Liebherr’s presence has contributed to a “sister city” relationship between Saline and Lindenberg.

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