Liebherr-Aerospace Technology breaks ground on Shanghai facility

The newly founded company Liebherr-Aerospace Technology (Shanghai) Co. Ltd. held recently its official groundbreaking ceremony at the Large Aircraft Industrial Park in Shanghai’s Lingang New Area. The new facility located in the northern section of Phase III of the Large Aircraft Industrial Park, (Lingang New Area of the Pilot Free Trade Zone), covers a gross floor area of about 16,000 square meters. Designed as a single-story steel-structured plant, it features a 30-meter span and a building height of 18.30 meters, providing ample space for the precision manufacturing and assembly of large-scale aircraft components. The new Shanghai facility represents an important extension of Liebherr’s global production network. The plant will focus on establishing local production capabilities for high-strength structural steel components critical to aircraft landing gear systems along with supporting advanced surface treatment processes. This initiative will effectively cut long-distance logistics and transportation costs for the C919 landing gear system and improve service and response efficiency. Upon completion, the Liebherr plant will create an integrated regional support hub covering precision machining as well as surface treatment, and it will provide on-site support for COMAC’s C919 production. It will catalyze the growth of the aviation manufacturing cluster in Lingang New Area, injecting fresh momentum into Shanghai’s high-end equipment manufacturing sector. Liebherr electronic products on board Boeing airplanes Liebherr-Aerospace will provide Boeing with brake remote electronic units that will be installed on the Boeing 777-8 Freighter. The brake remote electronic unit (REU) acts as a data concentrator in the airplane’s braking system. The unit – one per aircraft – supports the new active brake monitoring system and complies with EASA and FAA regulations for latent failure detection. Dr. Klaus Schneider, Chief Technology Officer at Liebherr-Aerospace & Transportation SAS, said: “We have worked in close collaboration with our customer over the past decade. To be on board Boeing commercial airplanes with our electronic products is an important milestone for Liebherr.” The brake remote electronic units have been developed and are manufactured by Liebherr-Aerospace Lindenberg GmbH in Lindenberg (Germany) in close cooperation with CUONICS GmbH based in Straubing (Germany). The main gear steering control unit as well as the nose wheel steering control unit is produced together with Liebherr-Electronics and Drives GmbH, Lindau (Germany). For Editorial Inquiries Contact: Editor Matt Driskill at [email protected] For Advertising Inquiries Contact: Head of Sales Sally Passey at [email protected]