Liebherr and Demag settle boom dispute

Liebherr-Werk Ehingen GmbH and Terex-Demag GmbH & Co. KG have achieved a settlement regarding the pending patent and civil law actions in Germany and the USA. This concerns in particular the technologies of the lateral suspension of the telescopic booms as well as the assembly of the counterweights of mobile and crawler cranes.

Both companies have, according to Terex, terminated litigation, and agreed to grant each other the worldwide mutual rights of use of the concerned intellectual property rights.