KUBOTA Corporation and Liebherr Group have been recognised twice for the design of their new series of wheeled excavators.
The two machines have picked up the iF Design Award and the highest accolade of the Red Dot Design Award, the Red Dot: Best of the Best.
The Red Dot Design Award, celebrating more than 70 years in 2026, seeks excellence in the areas of product design, communication design and design concepts. The wheeled excavator series was recognised for bringing together powerful technology in limited space, through a holistic design approach.
The two excavators, the nine-tonne KW095 and the 11-tonne KW115, are built in cooperation with Liebherr, at the company’s production site in Kirchdorf an der Iller, Germany. The facility produces four machines in total, the two Kubotas and Liebherr’s own A909 Compact and 911 Compact wheeled excavators. These are the first Liebherr models to be powered by the latest Kubota diesel engines.
Through this strategic partnership, the two companies benefit from each other’s expertise. For the first time, Liebherr is offering two wheeled excavators in the nine and 11-tonne classes, whilst Kubota has added wheeled excavators to its range for the first time with these two models.
Kubota dealers in the UK have been undergoing product training on the new KW095 and KW115 wheeled machines, in readiness for the first customer machines that are arriving now.
