What Has More Square Meters Than a Football Stadium and More Teeth Than a Shark Convention?

This week, MTDCNC’s Tony Gunn takes us on an incredible journey to one of Europe’s most awe-inspiring hubs of innovation and precision: Liebherr-Verzahntechnik GmbH, nestled in the scenic hills of Kempten in the Allgäu region of southern Germany.

The story of Liebherr’s gear technology division began in 1952, with the production of gear-cutting machines in Kirchdorf an der Iller. But by 1962, the company relocated to Kempten—a place that feels more like a setting for a fairy tale…if the Brothers Grimm were obsessed with bevel gears and CNC hobbing machines.

Today, Liebherr Kempten is less of a facility and more of a mechanical metropolis.

With over 145,000 square meters of total space—roughly 20 football fields—and 56,600+ square meters of covered production area, it’s a factory that looks like it could build the future…and it kind of does.

By 2024, the site employed 1,748 people, each contributing to the creation of gear-manufacturing solutions that power everything from aircraft to electric vehicles to offshore wind farms.

Whether it’s hobbing, shaping, profile grinding, or bevel gear machining, Liebherr doesn’t just manufacture machines—they engineer motion, making sure the modern world keeps turning, flying, and rolling.

Oh, and let’s not forget their six-bay production hall completed in 2011—100m long, 150m wide, and 19m high. That’s enough room to build the kinds of machines that build the machines that build our world.

So, from all of us at MTDCNC: Danke schön, Liebherr. For showing us the art of precision and what it truly means to keep the world moving.

Catch Tony Gunn’s full tour of this epic facility right here on MTDCNC soon.