* Virginia - Liebherr drops lawsuit accusing Newport News workers, Chinese of stealing truck designs
-- Liebherr drops — for now — lawsuit accusing workers, Chinese of stealing truck designs... Liebherr USA has dropped — at least for now — most of a major lawsuit accusing former workers at its Newport News manufacturing plant of conspiring with Chinese companies and others to rip off Liebherr truck designs... Liebherr mining trucks stand 29 feet tall and have a carrying capacity of 400 tons. That dwarfs a normal dump truck, which stands about 10 feet tall and has a 40-ton payload, or only a tenth the capacity of the Liebherr trucks... In the 2010 lawsuit, Liebherr Mining & Construction Equipment accused six former workers at the Newport News factory of conspiring to steal thousands of sensitive documents from the plant... Liebherr's suit also accused a Detroit engineering firm, Detroit Heavy Truck Engineering, of serving as a conduit to Chinese companies, and two Chinese manufacturing partnerships, accusing them of imitating a Liebherr diesel truck with a 400-ton payload... If the theft isn't reversed, Liebherr contends, "American manufacturing jobs will be lost" to companies that have ripped off technology and processes that took decades and millions of dollars to develop... All six workers — as well as the Detroit firm and the Chinese companies — have denied the allegations against them. The original defendant worker died about a year ago...
(Photos courtesy of Liebherr - Liebherr Mining & Construction Equipment alleges that several former employees of its Newport News production plant stole thousands of design documents used to make huge mining trucks -- then turned the documents over for copycat truck production in China. Liebherr's model is seen at right, the Chinese-built version at left) -- Newport News, VA, USA - Daily Press, by Peter Dujardin - 28 March 2015Labels: suits, truckmakers news worldwide
![[Valid Atom 1.0]](valid-atom.png "Validate my Atom 1.0 feed")
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home