Luibl Group acquires Uplifter

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

Luibl Group has taken over the operating business of the Guteneck-based specialist for mini cranes, vacuum technology and glass lifters near Nabburg - including 45 employees in rental, sales, service, machine operation and transport.
The former Uplifter GmbH & Co. KG will be 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 operate under the name Uplifter Group in future. However, it is not responsible for the operating business.

Several subsidiaries were founded to take over Uplifter's various business units:

· Uplifter Rental: The rental business will continue independently under the Uplifter brand. Close project-based cooperation with Luibl Rental will take place solely to bundle synergies and save costs.

Customer service and comprehensive support for shared customers will thus improve across the entire group. Large construction groups and re-rental partners in particular will benefit from the wide range of large equipment and special solutions.

The mini crane rental business will be further internationalised so that the newly acquired rental machines can also serve the markets covered by Luibl Rental, namely Austria, Hungary and Eastern Europe in general.

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

Industry pioneer Martin Lobinger remains part of the future group so that he can continue to develop his life's work.
Mini cranes and glass lifters are still sometimes referred to as "Uplifter" today, because 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 by this company. This strategic focus enables a gradual expansion of the service offering to further product areas, such as aerial work platforms, construction machinery, forklifts and telehandlers.

· Machineoperators: For the professional handling of operated assignments, we offer the separate Machineoperators service. Here you can hire operators for machines by the hour, by the day, and also by the week or month. In the near future also for 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. They are rented out from more than 11 locations.
New additions are the locations in Munich, Stuttgart, Frankfurt am Main, Duesseldorf, 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 in Passau on the Austrian border, in Weissenfels near Leipzig, in Volkmarsen near Kassel and in Schillingsfuerst at the Crailsheim/Feuchtwangen motorway junction remain in place.

The acquisition significantly strengthens regional proximity to customers and local presence.