The new crane model, intended for wind farm work, will not be able to pick and carry loads, but will be able to travel with full boom and counterweight. When lifting, it will be supported by four extended outriggers.
“It is also possible to travel on nine axles with partial counterweight and boom,” said a spokesman, “but customers told us that they want to carry more.”
The LTM superstructure will be fitted with narrow-track crawler undercarriage from the 350t capacity LR 1350.
The crane will be available in the second half of 2009.
Liebherr showed its only other telescopic crawler crane, the 100t capacity LTR 1100, at Conexpo.
Kleiner told Cranes Today that the wheeled crane launched at Bauma, the LTM 11200-9.1, was still undergoing final tests, but the first unit should be finished in May, with other units in production in June or July. Customers include Al Faris, Mediaco, Sarens and Mammoet, among others.
Kleiner started work in the position in November, from a previous role as Saudi Arabia sales and service director. He told Cranes Today that his first priority had been to get to know the mobile crane organisation, which is Liebherr’s single-largest factory group.
* In a press conference at ConExpo, the company announced its mobile cranes business made EUR 1.63bn in 2007 sales, and its tower cranes and mixing technology business made EUR 920m. These figures support Cranes Today’s earlier conclusion that Liebherr was the second-largest crane producer in the world after Manitowoc Crane Group.
