The ESTA Awards are the best distinction for the crane and heavy-lift business. This yr, Liebherr-Werk Nenzing gained the award within the class “Innovation Producer”. The LR 1250.1 unplugged – the world’s first battery-powered crawler crane was submitted.

“The yr 2020 notably proved that one should be daring and experimental with the intention to break new floor. With our unplugged crane we provide our clients an alternate drive design. As we have now already seen with the LB 16 unplugged, the primary battery-powered drilling rig, the technique is a whole success. Strict necessities concerning environmental sustainability in tenders for development tasks improve the demand for superior applied sciences. We have been in little doubt that we’d lengthen the idea to additional product ranges and efficiently set up ourselves there too. And we’ll proceed to develop additional unplugged fashions sooner or later,” mentioned Gerhard Frainer, Gross sales Director of Liebherr Werk Nenzing through the awards ceremony. 

The LR 1250.1 unplugged is pushed by an electrical motor with an influence score of 225 kW, and it has a most lifting capability of 250 tonnes.

The crane may be recharged on a standard jobsite electrical provide (32 A, 63 A) in 4.5 hours and in 2.25 hours with 125 A.  The capability of the battery is designed to accomodate 4 hours of lifting operation. In accordance with its identify, the crane may be operated with or and not using a cable, thus “unplugged”.