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MAN AG is a German engineering company based in Munich. MAN is one of Europe's leading manufacturers of engineering equipment and commercial vehicles. MAN supplies trucks, buses, diesel engines, turbomachinery as well as industrial services and holds leading market positions in all its business areas. MAN AG is one of the top 30 companies listed on the German stock exchange (DAX). It also is the eldest company within the DAX. The company celebrates its 250th anniversary in 2008. In 2007, its 55,000 employees generated annual sales of around €15,5 billion in 120 different countries. The company has joint ventures and other cooperations with local companies in India, Poland, Turkey, and the United States. MAN is securely positioned in the field of transport engineering, having won numerous prizes. Among those are the Truck of the Year award in 2006 as well as in 2008, the Bus of the Year award 2006 and recently the German business Innovation Prize (Innovationspreis der deutschen Wirtschaft) in the Major Enterprises category for its innovative 32/40PGI gas engine.

History

In 1758 MAN’s first root “St. Antony” ironworks commences operation in Oberhausen as the first heavy-industry enterprise in the Ruhr region. In 1808 the three ironworks St. Antony, Gute Hoffnung and Neue Essen merge to form the “Hüttengewerkschaft und Handlung Jacobi” (Iron Mining and Trading Company), Oberhausen which is later renamed Gute Hoffnungshütte (GHH). In 1921 GHH bought up M.A.N., the South German predecessor of MAN. 1808 Merger of the three ironworks St. Antony, Gute Hoffnung and Neue Essen to form Hüttengewerkschaft und Handlung Jacobi (Iron Mining and Trading Company), Oberhausen.

In 1908 the Vereinigte Maschinenfabrik Augsburg und Maschinenbaugesellschaft Nürnberg A.G., Augsburg (united machine works Augsburg and Nuremberg Ltd.) which came into being through the 1898 merger of Maschinenbau-AG Nürnberg (founded 1841) and the Maschinenfabrik Augsburg AG (founded 1840) was renamed Maschinenfabrik Augsburg Nürnberg AG, Augsburg or short M.A.N.

The early predecessors of MAN were responsible for numerous technological innovations such as the first German rotary printing press for newspapers, the first refrigerating machine "System Linde" (1873) and the co-operation in the development of the Diesel engine 1893-97. Rudolf Diesel’s ingenious invention was in those years realized with the help of the engineers at the Maschinenfabrik Augsburg.

In 1924, the company showed a diesel truck at the Berlin Motor Show, which was purchased in numbers by the Bavarian Post Office.

During the 1930s, MAN marine diesels were licence-produced in the U.S. and installed in fleet submarines, where they proved troublesome and unpopular in the Pacific War.

After the Second World War M.A.N. GHH lost all foreign operations and suffered heavy war damage, the Allied Forces take control of all GHH companies and demerged the company, the steel production facilities had to be given up. Thus the focus shifted towards the South German plants and commercial vehicles. In 1986 GHH was merged upon MAN with its headquarters in Munich.

On September 18, 2006, MAN made a €10.3 billion offer for a takeover of Scania AB, one of the leading truck and bus companies in Sweden. MAN AG bought 15.6% of the voting shares in Scania AB. Volkswagen AG, Scania's largest shareholder, acquired a stake of 20% of MAN, and has since raised that stake to 29%. Together MAN and VW owned 52% of the Scania shares. It is expected that a combined MAN-Scania will also absorb Volkswagen's Brazilian heavy truck operations. Volkswagen intends to acquire MAN by the end of 2008.

In 2008 MAN will celebrate the 250th anniversary of the company with a gala event in Munich, exhibitions in Deutsches Museum Munich, the corporate museum in Augsburg and the Rheinisches Industriemuseum Oberhausen One highlight should be an Oldtimer Truck Convoy on a historical route from Munich over Augsburg to Nuremberg in June.

Divisions

  • MAN Nutzfahrzeuge AG (roughly 50% of overall sales; 88% of division sales come from European market)

Commercial vehicles: trucks (61% of group sales), aftermarket parts and service (18%), buses (14%), engines and components (7%)

2-stroke and 4-stroke diesel and gasoline engines: large marine and stationary diesel engines, engines for vehicles, industrial applications, power stations, yachts, passenger ships, ships, and work-boats (tankers, tugboats, icebreakers), railways.

Turbomachines: compressors and turbines for process industry and power generation worldwide; used in oil & natural gas, refinery, chemical & petrochemical, fertilizers, industrial gases, iron & steel processing and mining, power generation applications.

Industrial services: projecting, delivery, assembly, including steel-based structures

Products - MAN Nutzfahrzeuge AG division

Trucks/military

Buses

  • Lion's City city/interurban bus
  • Lion's Classic city/interurban bus
  • Lion's Regio interurban bus
  • Americana city bus
  • NM 223/283
  • NL/ÜL 313/363 F (LF)
  • NL 202/232 (LF)
  • NL 262 R
  • NG 263/313/363 F (LF)
  • ND 243 F
  • 10.225 FOCL midi coach
  • 11.190 HOCL midi (LF)
  • 12.220 HOCL
  • 14.280 HOCL
  • 12.220 HOCL-NL
  • 14.220 HOCL-NL
  • 16.200
  • 18.220/ 260/ 280 HOCL-SL
  • 18.220/ 260/ 280/ 310/ 360 HOCL-SÜ
  • 18.220/ 260/ 310 HOCL-NL (LF)
  • 18.260/ 310/ 360/ 410/ 460 HOCL
  • 24.310/ 360/ 410/ 460 HOCLN
  • 28.310 HGOCL

Electrodynamic moving-off element

MAN EDA concept is examining the stop-start automatic system, the requirement-specific electric drive for secondary units, the implementation of the clutch function, the synchronisation of gear changes with the aid of an electrodynamic moving-off element (EDA) and the booster function for extra power.

Two distribution vehicles with parallel hybrid drives are currently being tested: one vehicle features a starter-alternator (MAN TGL OPTISTRANG) integrated in the clutch housing, the other vehicle, an MAN TGL EDA, is equipped with an electrodynamic moving-off element (EDA) developed together with ZF Friedrichshafen.

The TGL EDA combines the fuel-saving potential of a hybrid drive with the advantages of a wear-free moving-off element. One of the main benefits of the EDA is its compactness; all components can be accommodated in the standard clutch housing. The diesel engine and the electric motor can either be used simultaneously or alternatively. On stopping both the diesel engine and the electric motor switch off thus the TGL EDA does not use any fuel nor does it produce any emissions or noise. As soon as the driver puts the vehicle in gear, the electric motor starts the diesel engine and simultaneously sets the vehicle in motion.

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