Liebherr will be represented at Steinexpo 2023 from 23 to 26 August with over ten machines from its earthmoving and mining product segments.
The main focus of Liebherr’s presence will also be on alternative drives and the latest developments in the field of digitalisation. Several crawler excavators, an articulated dump truck, the largest Liebherr wheel loader as well as other wheel loader models, dozers and a mining excavator will be on display at Liebherr’s main booth.
For Liebherr, Steinexpo has been an important trade exhibition in the earthmoving and quarrying sector for many years.
This year, too, the Group will give around 50,000 visitors in Homberg in central Germany an insight into the product highlights and solutions for quarries and mines.
In the field of new technologies, at the exhibition, Liebherr will put one focus on alternative drives. As part of its technology-neutral approach, the Group will provide insight and outlook on various drive concepts at the exhibition: from the conventional combustion engine to hydrogen-based drives and electric drives. In addition, digitalisation in the field of earthmoving and mining machines, for example through digital assistance systems or virtual product simulations, will also play a major role.
At the exhibition, Liebherr’s work on electric and hydrogen-based drives specifically for the use of machines in the extraction industry will be on display. In heavy-duty applications in particular, promising opportunities are opening with hydrogen-based drives that offer representative ranges with high overall performance. The use of low-emission alternative fuels, such as HVO (Hydrotreated Vegetable Oil), which can already be already used in the majority of Liebherr machines, will also play a role at the exhibition.
One exhibition highlight awaiting visitors to Steinexpo is Liebherr’s first hydrogen combustion engine. The H966 was developed by the Components product segment for demonstration and field trials and is based on port fuel injection technology (also known as PFI). The results achieved using this technology show the great future potential of hydrogen-based drives and speak in favour of using such drives, especially for off-road applications. The engine was first demonstrated at Bauma 2022 in the R 9XX H2, a hydrogen excavator prototype. In addition, Liebherr will be presenting an innovative solution for the mobile refuelling of construction machinery with gaseous hydrogen together with Maximator Hydrogen GmbH.
