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Liebherr
Liebherr’s enormous new logistics
centre in Oberopfingen, Germany.
Strobel. “Themachines can be
manufactured at our production
sites inChina, Brazil andRussia,
while allowing for a high degree
of localisation.The start of
production of the firstmachines
will be in 2015. Sincewe build our
machines in amodular way, we can
also transfer synergy effects to our
premiummachines.”
Another initiative to bolster its
global presence is amassive new
€ 115million (US$ 145million)
spare parts and logistics centre
inOberopfingen, Germany.The
first phase of constructionwill be
complete at the end of this year,
andwill see a facilitywith
47,000m
2
of covered area
established.
The use of automated systems
and the cutting edge in logistics
will allow this to ship an incredible
3,500 spare parts per hour.One of
theways this has been achieved is
through a 36m high automated
shelving systemwhich can store
60,390 individual boxes.This
adds to othermanual systems for
different types of components for a
total of 122,000 box spaces.
The interfacewith the outside
world includes a garage for
incoming goods that can house 10
trucks at once, while the dispatch
area features 22 truck docks.
TheOberopfingen facilitywill
start to come on line next year and
is expected to be holding 100,000
parts byMarchnext year.
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