Job Report Wheel Loader L 580 LogHandler

Use in the Ilim Timber Bavaria sawmill in Landsberg am Lech, Germany The L 580 LogHandler XPower® moves up to 3,000 solid cubic At Ilim Timber Bavaria, an L 580 XPower® wheel loader is also metres of wood every day at Ilim Timber Bavaria. involved in the production process.

Situation With a total of 3,000 employees, Ilim Timber is one of the is the top priority for the machines used because the world's leading producers of softwood sawn timber and L 580 LogHandler XPower® is in operation at the log yard softwood plywood. The company's production facilities in two shifts for around 16 hours a day, seven days a are mainly located in Russia and Germany, and in total the week. As with the current Liebherr large wheel loaders, the group produces around 2.6 million cubic metres of sawn L 580 LogHandler XPower® also offers the advantages of timber annually. In Landsberg am Lech in Bavaria, Ilim Timber the power-split XPower® driveline. It provides robustness operates the smaller of its two German sawmills with 294 and offers full performance over the entire travel range. employees. Since taking over the location and establishing Ilim Korbinian Dotzauer, the deputy plant manager, praised Timber Bavaria in 2011, sawing operations have continuously the high fuel efficiency of the power-split XPower® driveline. increased. The L 580 LogHandler XPower® moves around 2,500 to 3,000 cubic metres of wood every day – just over half the daily Task production volume at the log yard. The Liebherr wheel loader In Landsberg am Lech, around one million cubic metres requires only 13 litres of diesel per operating hour. of spruce are processed for the house construction and The biggest challenge for the L 580 LogHandler XPower® at packaging industries. The company procures this from Ilim Timber Bavaria is unloading wagons. There are around Bavarian State Forests and private forest owners. Enormous two kilometres of railway track on the factory premises and quantities of wood are continuously arriving at the sawmill the LogHandler has to cover very long distances during by truck and rail. The main tasks of the machines for timber the unloading process. The machine operators are very handling at the Landsberg am Lech site include unloading the pleased with how quiet the wheel loader is to drive. Precise, trailers and wagons and temporarily storing the logs in the log delicate movements of the load are also possible. The yard. The machines also feed the log sorting system. L 580 LogHandler XPower® can flexibly perform the various tasks at the log yard with the purposefully reinforced special Solution lift arm, which offers a maximum reach of almost four metres. At Ilim Timber Bavaria, several Liebherr handling machines For this application, the L 580 LogHandler XPower® was are already involved in the production process, including three equipped with a 3.2 m² combination grapple which can be LH 50 M Timber log loaders and one L 580 XPower® wheel rotated 360° and swivelled forwards and backwards. In loader. Based on its excellent experience with Liebherr addition, the numerous protection devices, such as the guard machines, the company invested in an L 580 LogHandler for the windscreen, the hydraulically adjustable log pusher, XPower® with emission stage IV / Tier 4f for timber work at and the rear ram guard with additional protection all ensure the log yard in Landsberg am Lech. For Ilim Timber, reliability optimal working conditions. LBH-12251257-web-05.19_enGB

Technical Data BK Operating weight 37,720 kg Log grapple 3.2 m2 Payload 8,520 kg Average fuel consumption 13 litres / hour Engine output (ISO 14396) 250 kW / 340 HP Tyres Goodyear GP-4D L4 775/65R29EM Printed by LBH modifications. technical to Subject

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