The MAN engine: in a world of large capacity

The engines MAN today are a sample of engineering thought, technological excellence and truly German quality. And the position of the company itself in the world market of manufacturers of large diesel engines for ships, trucks and power plants are unshakable. It is one of the three leading manufacturers of turbomachinery. Any MAN engine today is perceived as a guarantee of the highest quality.

The history of the company is almost two centuries - from 1915, when the first diesel engine MAN was produced. Since then, it is the world leader and an indisputable authority in the field of diesel engine construction. Today the branches of the concern are located in more than one hundred and fifty countries of the world. Management of missions is carried out by the head office located in Augsburg.

Another interesting fact is the history of the company, which at one time was very active in the Third Reich, which was never meant to be a millennium old. Between January 1943 and almost to the very end of Nazism, in May 1945, the serial armored car Pz Kpfw V, better known as the Panther, became the main and best tank of the Wehrmacht from the assembly line of this glorious concern . It was installed engine MAN, which experts unanimously recognize the most powerful diesel engine of that time. Disadvantages of "Panther" can be considered the complexity and high cost of production, but not technical characteristics. In terms of its parameters, it was inferior only to our famous "Thirty".

Now, of course, times have changed, and the company's products have a completely peaceful purpose. The production of diesel engines is not the only direction of its activity. In a wide range of products the concern also has turbochargers, gas engines, chemical reactors, propellers and much more.

MAN marine engines have been playing the role of the main driving force for bulk carriers, dry cargo ships, barges and tankers for many decades regardless of their overall size and power range. According to statistics, MAN engines are installed on 48 thousand ships of different displacement, profile and specificity.

The four-stroke diesel engines produced by the company perfectly combine the enormous power with the optimum speed. They are great for a variety of types of maritime transport - ferries, cargo, passenger, cruise, trade and multi-purpose ships of large displacement. Approximately half of all sea commercial cargo turnover is carried out by vessels, the motive power of which is the engine MAN.

Another priority area of the concern's activity is the manufacture of diesel engines for power plants, the vast majority of which are now focused on the use of a wide variety of fuels. In addition to traditional natural gas and fuel oil, sometimes even crude oil is used. Powerful powerful engines of the company are able to work on virtually any commercially available types of fuel materials. It is these qualities, combined with the unpretentiousness, great resource and ease of maintenance that made the engines of the concern extremely popular in the "third world" countries, where there is often no high-quality fuel.