MAN Diesel

MAN Diesel

Industry	Manufacturing, automotive industry, marine engineering
Fate	merged
Predecessor	Burmeister & Wain and MAN Turbo AG
Successor	MAN Diesel & Turbo
Founded	1980
Headquarters	Augsburg, Bavaria, Germany
Products	diesel and other engines, turbomachinery
Parent	MAN AG

MAN Diesel SE (formerly MAN B&W Diesel AG) was a provider of large-bore diesel engines for marine propulsion systems and power plant applications. MAN Diesel employs over 7,700 staff, primarily in Germany, Denmark, France, the Czech Republic, India and China. The global after-sales organisation, MAN Diesel PrimeServ, comprises a network of the company’s own service centres, supported by authorised partners.

In 2010, MAN Diesel and MAN Turbo were merged to form MAN Diesel & Turbo.

History

In 1980, MAN AG acquired the Burmeister & Wain Danish shipyard and diesel engine producer. Though engine production at Christianshavn was later discontinued in 1987, successful engine programs were rolled out. At Teglholmen in 1988 a spare parts and key components production factory was established as was an R&D Centre at the same site in 1992. Though all Copenhagen operations were consolidated at Teglholmen in 1994 and the last volume production unit at the B&W Shipyard was delivered in 1996, in 2000 MAN B&W Diesel two-stroke diesel engines had over 70% market share, with a substantial number of MC-line engines on order.

The electronically controlled line of ME diesel two-stroke engines was added in 2002 with a maximum cylinder bore of 108 cm. MAN B&W Diesel, Denmark, employed approximately 2,200 at the end of 2003 and had 100 GW, or more than 8000 MC engines, in service or on order by 2004.

In 2006 the MAN Diesel AG established a common European corporation named MAN Diesel SE (Societas Europaea).^[1]

Copenhagen, 22 February 2006: The first diesel engine with more than 100,000 bhp (75,000 kW) has gone into service. MAN B&W Diesel licensee Hyundai Heavy Industries in Korea has built the 12K98MC with 101,640 bhp (75,790 kW).

The engine is installed in the first of a series of container ships with a capacity over 9,000 teu being built for Greek owner Costamare. The vessels will be chartered to COSCON (COSCO Container Lines) in China.^[2]

British acquisitions

MAN Diesel owns^[when?] the former diesel businesses of English Electric, Mirrlees Blackstone, Napier & Son, Paxman, and Ruston.^[3]

Mirrlees Blackstone Limited was formed on June 1, 1969 by the merger of Mirrlees National Limited and Blackstone & Company Limited. All were, at the time, members of the Hawker Siddeley Group.^[4]

Locations

MAN Diesel has production places at Augsburg, Copenhagen, Frederikshavn, Saint-Nazaire, Aurangabad and Shanghai.

See also

• Wärtsilä

References

1. ^ http://www.mandiesel.se/
2. ^ http://www.mandiesel.com/
3. ^ http://www.mandiesel.com/category_000109.html
4. ^ http://www.enginemuseum.org/mrindex.html

Sources

• Johannes Lehmann, A Century of Burmeister & Wain, Copenhagen, 1948.

External links

• MAN Diesel official Site
• Brief History and Development Of Mirrlees Blackstone
• Mirrlees Diesel Engine in New Zealand museum (go down)
• MAN Diesel Russia