Luibl Group takes over Uplifter

The Luibl Group has bought the renowned mini-crane and glass-lifter specialist out of insolvency

The Luibl Group has taken over the operating business of the specialist for mini cranes, vacuum technology and glass lifters based in Guteneck near Nabburg – including 45 employees in the areas of rental, sales, service, machine operation and transport. The previous Uplifter GmbH & Co. KG is being wound up by the insolvency administrator.

Karl Bauer, owner of the Luibl Group, has founded a new group of companies for this step, which will in future operate under the name Uplifter Group. However, this is not responsible for the operating business.

Several subsidiaries were founded to take over the respective different divisions of Uplifter:

• Uplifter Rental: The rental business will be continued independently and autonomously under the Uplifter brand. Only to bundle synergies and cost savings will there be close, project-based cooperation with Luibl Rental.

Customer service and the comprehensive support of shared customers will thereby be improved across the group. In particular, large construction groups and re-hire partners will benefit from the wide-ranging assortment of large equipment and special solutions.

The rental business with mini cranes will be further internationalised in order to also serve the markets served by Luibl Rental in Austria, Hungary and Eastern Europe in general with the newly acquired rental machines.

• Uplifter Trading: The sales and distribution business for mini cranes, vacuum technology and glass lifters will be continued under Uplifter Trading. New brand partnerships will be established step by step in order to further expand the trading business.

The industry pioneer Martin Lobinger will remain part of the future group in order to continue developing his life's work positively. Mini cranes and glass lifters are still partly referred to today as „Uplifters“, as Mr Lobinger established these machine types on the German market.

• Uplifter Service: The service business for mini cranes, vacuum technology and glass lifters will in future be handled via this company. This strategic orientation enables a gradual expansion of the service offering to further product areas, such as work platforms, construction machinery, forklifts and telehandlers.

• Machine operators: For the professional handling of operator assignments, machine operators are offered independently. Here, operators can be rented together with machines by the hour, by the day, but also by the week and month. In the near future, this will also apply to all other machines of the Luibl Rental Group.

Together with the Uplifter Group, the Luibl Rental Group now has well over 1,000 rental machines. These are rented out across Germany from more than 11 locations. Newly added are the locations in Munich, Stuttgart, Frankfurt am Main, Düsseldorf, Hamburg and Berlin, as well as the headquarters of the Uplifter Group in Oberaich near Nabburg in the Upper Palatinate. The large Luibl logistics HUBs continue to exist in Passau on the Austrian border, in Weißenfels near Leipzig, in Volkmarsen near Kassel and in Schillingsfürst at the Crailsheim/Feuchtwangen motorway junction.

With the takeover, regional customer proximity and local presence are strongly expanded.