Liebherr Group

So we had leaders from the aerospace and defense.

We had Liebherr, we had Pratt & Whitney, Boeing, Raytheon, and I could go on and on and on on some of these major, major companies, uh, that were there that gave us all a message on how important the aerospace industry is for our manufacturing industry here in Michigan, as well as throughout the entire, uh, world.

And the messages were plenty from all these aerospace shops.

Pretty much the overall message was there is so much work out there, and it's available, that they cannot help themselves.

score you today yeah yeah that's it so for anyone who's not in the mining world and doesn't know we're like tier one and that kind of thing could you tell us a bit about the size of the equipment that you're working on at the

Yeah, so I love, so what I work on is the Liebherr hydraulic excavators.

I've worked on various or different types of OEM brands, but at the moment we have the 9600.

So they're 600 ton machines.

So we hit 1.7 million BCMs of metric cubic meters of dirt that were moved over a 12-month period.

So that's made history.

That's the first Liebherr 9600 to move that much dirt and to also be up there with the availability.

The machine was flawless, like to be able to have that teamwork with the whole entire, all the forces put together from production to maintenance to all make that work and work as a team to be able to push that through it.

For these reasons, the Superdozer is buried at number three on our list.

Before finally revealing the greatest digger, here's a giant that is the cornerstone of almost all mining operations, standing at number two, the Liebherr T282B haul truck.

The T282 with its edges, which is enormous tires, with its big radiator, it doesn't hide its power.

It is just pure macho.

Martin, first of all, tell us about the name, Patrizia.

Patrizia, Patrizia, we have since 25 years, even before my time, we have a cooperation, very deep cooperation, even friendship with the Liebherr group, with the Liebherr family.

And Patrizia, Patrizia Ruf is one of the daughters of Isolde.

So then we came to the, let's say, funny idea, let's say, why not trying to book some cranes and to do here the christening on their premises? And then was an idea, I don't know, three years ago, and today we finally made it.

It's always important to build up a certain fleet size, but our aim is not to have as let's say a certain number whatever so we will also we have also chartered intons as you know so um this this one is now uh will not be replaced but our 176 they they are now almost 20 years so there will be a time then they would leave the fleet so It's a, let's say, steady little grow of the fleet, but I will not exclude that in the future, we will just be steady.

Okay.

And tell us a bit about the partnership with Liebherr, whose facility, fantastic facility we're at today.

I met somebody this week and they said, Martin's not putting cranes on his ships, he's putting Porsches on his ships.

my favorites, I think.

No, I mean, the sponsorship kind of, it's very kind of, along with a couple of big Chinese brands and obviously Liebherr, which has been around for a long time, it's very kind of floors and tables and doors kind of stuff.

I just wonder how they get kind of non-endemic sponsors in.

And also, as I say, that time they're coming into the sport when there's some ructions going on actually in table tennis as to who's really pushing the sport.

about those torque curves.

Phenomenal low-end torque to this machine on both our, I should say all three engines, our JD14, the JD18, and then the Liebherr and the bigger, two biggest machines.

But as you pull that thing down, the responsiveness is right there.

The machine responds really quickly, a lot of low-end torque on it.