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Aktiengesellschaft

Aktiengesellschaft is a German language term that refers to a corporation that is limited by share s, i.e. owned by shareholders, and may be traded on a stock market....
 is a German
German language

German is a West Germanic languages, thus related to and classified alongside English language and Dutch language. It is one of the world's world language and the most widely spoken mother tongue in the European Union....
 engineering
Mechanical engineering

Mechanical Engineering is an engineering discipline that involves the application of physics#branches of physics for analysis, design, manufacturing, and maintenance of machine....
 company
Company

Generally, a company is a form of business organization. The precise definition varies.In the United States, a company is a corporation—or, less commonly, an association, partnership, or union—that carries on an industrial enterprise." Generally, a company may be a "corporation, partnership, association, joint-stock company, Inv...
 based in Munich
Munich

Munich is the capital city of Bavaria, Germany. Munich is located on the River Isar north of the Northern Limestone Alps. Munich is the third largest city in Germany, after Berlin and Hamburg....
.

MAN is one of the world's leading manufacturers of engineering equipment and commercial vehicle
Commercial vehicle

A commercial vehicles is a type of vehicle that is used for carrying goods or passengers.Examples of commercial vehicles include:* Truck* Semi truck...
s. MAN supplies trucks
Trucks

Trucks may refer to:*The plural of truck*The ground billiards game otherwise known as troco or lawn billiards*The Trucks, a band*Trucks , a band...
, buses, diesel engines, turbomachinery
Turbomachinery

In mechanical engineering, turbomachinery describes machines that transfer energy between a Rotor and a fluid, including both turbines and Gas compressor....
, 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
DAX

DAX 30 The L-DAX Index is an indicator of the German benchmark DAX 30 Index's performance after the Xetra electronic-trading system closes based on the floor trading at the Frankfurt Stock Exchange....
). It also is the oldest company within the DAX. The company celebrates its 250th anniversary in 2008.






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MAN AG
Aktiengesellschaft

Aktiengesellschaft is a German language term that refers to a corporation that is limited by share s, i.e. owned by shareholders, and may be traded on a stock market....
 is a German
German language

German is a West Germanic languages, thus related to and classified alongside English language and Dutch language. It is one of the world's world language and the most widely spoken mother tongue in the European Union....
 engineering
Mechanical engineering

Mechanical Engineering is an engineering discipline that involves the application of physics#branches of physics for analysis, design, manufacturing, and maintenance of machine....
 company
Company

Generally, a company is a form of business organization. The precise definition varies.In the United States, a company is a corporation—or, less commonly, an association, partnership, or union—that carries on an industrial enterprise." Generally, a company may be a "corporation, partnership, association, joint-stock company, Inv...
 based in Munich
Munich

Munich is the capital city of Bavaria, Germany. Munich is located on the River Isar north of the Northern Limestone Alps. Munich is the third largest city in Germany, after Berlin and Hamburg....
.

MAN is one of the world's leading manufacturers of engineering equipment and commercial vehicle
Commercial vehicle

A commercial vehicles is a type of vehicle that is used for carrying goods or passengers.Examples of commercial vehicles include:* Truck* Semi truck...
s. MAN supplies trucks
Trucks

Trucks may refer to:*The plural of truck*The ground billiards game otherwise known as troco or lawn billiards*The Trucks, a band*Trucks , a band...
, buses, diesel engines, turbomachinery
Turbomachinery

In mechanical engineering, turbomachinery describes machines that transfer energy between a Rotor and a fluid, including both turbines and Gas compressor....
, 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
DAX

DAX 30 The L-DAX Index is an indicator of the German benchmark DAX 30 Index's performance after the Xetra electronic-trading system closes based on the floor trading at the Frankfurt Stock Exchange....
). It also is the oldest company within the DAX. The company celebrates its 250th anniversary in 2008. In 2008, its 51,300 employees generated annual sales of around €15 billion in 120 different countries. The company has joint ventures and other cooperations with local companies in India
India

India, officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, the List of countries by population country, and the most populous liberal democracy in the world....
, Poland
Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe. Poland is bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian Enclave and exclave, to the north....
, Turkey
Turkey

Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country that stretches across the Anatolian peninsula in southwest Asia and Thrace in the Balkans region of Southern Europe....
, and the United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
.

MAN is securely positioned in the field of transport engineering, having won numerous prizes. Among those are the Truck of the Year
International Truck of the Year

The International Truck of the Year is an annual award made by the international transport sector. Each year an expert jury, consisting of leading, authoritative specialist journalists, selects the International Truck of the Year from the new vehicles appearing on the European market.....
 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


MAN traces its origins back to 1758, when the "St. Antony" ironworks commenced operation in Oberhausen
Oberhausen

Oberhausen is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located in the Ruhr area, 35 km to the north of D?sseldorf on the banks of the river Emscher...
, as the first heavy-industry enterprise in the Ruhr region. In 1808, the three ironworks "St. Antony", "Gute Hoffnung", and "Neue Essen" merged, 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.

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 co-operation in the development of the Diesel engine
Diesel engine

A diesel engine is an internal combustion engine which operates using the diesel cycle . Diesel engines have the highest thermal efficiency compared to any internal combustion or external combustion engine....
 1893-97. Rudolf Diesel
Rudolf Diesel

Rudolf Christian Karl Diesel was a French_People/German_people inventor and mechanical engineer, famous for the invention of the diesel engine....
’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
Truck

File:Red truck USA.JPGA truck is a type of motor vehicle commonly used for carrying goods and materials. Some light trucks are relatively small, similar in size to a passenger automobile....
 at the Berlin Motor Show, which was purchased in numbers by the Bavaria
Bavaria

Bavaria , with an area of and almost 12.5 million inhabitants, is a region located in the southeast of Germany and is the largest States of Germany of Germany by area....
n Post Office
Post office

A post office is a facility authorized by a postal system for the posting, receipt, sorting, handling, transmission or delivery of mail. Post offices offer mail-related services such as post office boxes, postage and packaging supplies....
.

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

The Pacific War was the part of World War II?and preceding conflicts?that took place in the Pacific Ocean, its islands, and in East Asia, between July 7, 1937 and August 14, 1945....
.

After the Second World War, M.A.N. GHH lost all its foreign operations and suffered heavy war damage. Allied Forces took control of all GHH companies and broke up the company, placing the steel production facilities into separate ownership. Thus the focus shifted towards the South German plants and commercial vehicles. In 1986, GHH was merged into MAN with its headquarters in Munich.

The MAN group took over the truck builder Steyr Nutzfahrzeuge AG of Vienna
Vienna

Vienna is the Capital of Republic of Austria and also one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.7 million...
 in Austria
Austria

Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It borders both Germany and the Czech Republic to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west....
 in 1991, (the firm was formerly know as Steyr-Daimler-Puch AG) which also has truck building works in Turkey (MAN-A.S.) and India (Shakti-MAN).

On 18 September 2006, MAN made a €10.3 billion offer for a takeover of Scania AB, one of the leading truck and bus companies in Sweden
Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic countries on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden has land borders with Norway to the west and Finland to the northeast, and it is connected to Denmark by the ?resund Bridge in the south....
. MAN AG bought 15.6% of the voting shares in Scania AB. Volkswagen Group
Volkswagen Group

Volkswagen Group, or Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft , is a German automotive industry group, currently the automotive industry#World's largest vehicle manufacturing groups , and the largest in Europe....
, Scania's largest shareholder, acquired a stake of 20% of MAN, and has since raised that stake to 29%. VW has a majority stake in Scania, owning over 51% of the company. It was widely expected that the two truck manufacturers would be combined, and that a combined MAN-Scania would also absorb Volkswagen's Brazilian heavy truck
Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles

Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles , or Volkswagen Nutzfahrzeuge , is a Germany manufacturer of commercial vehicles. Originally part of the Volkswagen company, it is now a separate brand, and marque of the Volkswagen Group....
 operations. A more recent interview with VW CEO Martin Winterkorn stated that VW has no immediate plans to attempt to merge Scania and MAN, but he would also not rule out a MAN takeover of VW's Brazilian heavy truck. As of 2009, Volkswagen Truck and Bus is part of MAN AG. It was also originally speculated that Volkswagen intended to acquire MAN Truck and Bus division by the end of 2008. This has not been officially confirmed and there has been no current action by VW in attempting to acquire MAN shares, or to buy the company's commercial vehicle division.

In 2008, MAN celebrates the 250th anniversary
Anniversary

An anniversary is a day that commemorates and/or celebrates a past event that occurred on the same day of the year as the initial event. For example, the first event is the initial occurrence or, if planned, the inaugural of the event....
 of the company, with a gala event in Munich, exhibitions in the Deutsches Museum
Deutsches Museum

The Deutsches Museum in Munich, Germany, is the world's largest museum of technology and science, with approximately 1.3 million visitors per year and about 28,000 exhibited objects from 50 fields of science and technology....
 in Munich, the corporate museum in Augsburg, and the Rheinisches Industriemuseum
Rheinisches Industriemuseum

The Rheinisches Industriemuseum is a decentralized museum with six locations in Rhineland. The center is in Oberhausen in the old Zinkfabrik Altenberg, directly at the Oberhausener main station....
 in Oberhausen
Oberhausen

Oberhausen is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located in the Ruhr area, 35 km to the north of D?sseldorf on the banks of the river Emscher...
. 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 vehicle
Commercial vehicle

A commercial vehicles is a type of vehicle that is used for carrying goods or passengers.Examples of commercial vehicles include:* Truck* Semi truck...
s: truck
Truck

File:Red truck USA.JPGA truck is a type of motor vehicle commonly used for carrying goods and materials. Some light trucks are relatively small, similar in size to a passenger automobile....
s (61% of group sales), aftermarket parts and service (18%), buses
Neoman Bus

Neoman Bus GmbH was created from the merger of MAN AG and Neoplan in 2001. It focuses on bus production....
 (14%), engines and components (7%)
  • MAN Diesel
    MAN B&W Diesel

    MAN Diesel is the world?s leading provider of large-bore diesel engines for marine propulsion systems and power plant applications and turbochargers....
     SE
2-stroke and 4-stroke diesel
Diesel

Diesel or diesel fuel in general is any fuel used in diesel engines. The most common is a specific fractional distillation of petroleum fuel oil, but alternatives that are not derived from petroleum, such as biodiesel, biomass to liquid or gas to liquid diesel, are increasingly being developed and adopted....
 and gasoline
Gasoline

File:GasCan.jpgGasoline or petrol is a petroleum-derived liquid mixture, primarily used as fuel in internal combustion engines.It consists mostly of aliphatic hydrocarbons, enhanced with iso-octane or the aromatic hydrocarbons toluene and benzene to increase its octane rating....
 engine
Engine

An engine is a mechanical device that produces some form of output from a given input.An engine whose purpose is to produce kinetic energy output from a fuel is called a Wiktionary:prime mover; alternatively, a motor is a device which produces kinetic energy from a preprocessed "fuel" ....
s: large marine and stationary diesel engines, engines for vehicles, industrial applications, power station
Power station

A power station is an industrial facility for the Electricity generation of electric power.Power plant is also used to refer to the engine in ships, aircraft and other large vehicles....
s, yacht
Yacht

A yacht is a recreational boat. It designates two rather different classes of watercraft, sailing and power yachts. Yachts are differentiated from working ships mainly by their leisure purpose....
s, passenger ship
Passenger ship

A passenger ship is a ship whose primary function is to carry passengers. The category does not include cargo ship which have accommodations for limited numbers of passengers, such as the ubiquitous twelve-passenger freighters once common on the seas in which the transport of passengers is secondary to the carriage of freight....
s, ship
Ship

A ship is a large watercraft that floats on water. Ships are generally distinguished from boats based on size. Ships may be found on lakes, seas, and rivers and they allow for a variety of activities, such as the ferry or cargo ships, fishing, cruise ship, Coast guard, and warship....
s, and work-boats (tanker
Tanker (ship)

A tank ship or tankship, often referred to as a tanker is a ship designed to transport liquids in Bulk liquids. Major types of tankship include the oil tanker, the chemical tanker, and the liquefied natural gas carrier....
s, tugboat
Tugboat

A tugboat, or tug, is a boat used to maneuver, primarily by towing or pushing, other ships in harbors, over the open sea or through rivers and canals....
s, icebreaker
Icebreaker

An icebreaker is a special-purpose ship or boat designed to move and navigate through ice-covered waters. Although the term usually refers to icebreaking ships, it may also refer to smaller vessels ....
s), railways.
  • MAN Turbo AG
Turbomachines: compressors
Gas compressor

A gas compressor is a mechanical device that increases the pressure of a gas by reducing its volume.Compressors are similar to pumps: both increase the pressure on a fluid and both can transport the fluid through a pipe ....
 and turbine
Turbine

A turbine is a rotary engine that extracts energy from a fluid flow. Claude Burdin coined the term from the Latin turbo, or vortex, during an 1828 engineering competition....
s for process industry and power generation worldwide; used in oil
Petroleum

Petroleum or crude oil is a naturally occurring, flammable liquid found in rock formations in the Earth consisting of a complex mixture of hydrocarbons of various molecular weights, plus other organic compounds....
 & natural gas
Natural gas

Natural gas is a gas consisting primarily of methane. It is found associated with fossil fuels, in coal beds, as methane clathrates, and is created by methanogenic organisms in marshes, bogs, and landfills....
, refinery
Refinery

A refinery is composed of a group of chemical engineering Unit processing and unit operations used for refining certain materials or converting materials into products of value....
, chemical & petrochemical
Petrochemical

Petrochemicals are chemical products made from raw materials of petroleum or other hydrocarbon origin. Although some of the chemical compounds that originate from petroleum may also be derived from coal and natural gas, petroleum is the major source....
, fertilizer
Fertilizer

Fertilizers are chemical compounds given to plants to promote growth; they are usually applied either through the soil, for uptake by plant roots, or by foliar feeding, for uptake through leaves....
s, industrial gas
Industrial gas

Industrial gas is a group of gases that are commercely Manufacturing and Wiktionary:sold for uses in other applications. These gases are mainly used in an industrial processes, such as steelmaking, oil refining, Medicine applications, fertilizer, semiconductors, etc,....
es, iron
Iron

Iron is a chemical element with the symbol Fe and atomic number 26. Iron is a Group 8 element and period 4 element. Iron is lustrous and silvery in color....
 & steel
Steel

Steel is an alloy consisting mostly of iron, with a carbon content between 0.2% and 2.14% by weight , depending on grade. Carbon is the most cost-effective alloying material for iron, but various other alloying elements are used such as manganese, chromium, vanadium, and tungsten....
 processing and mining
Mining

Mining is the extraction of value minerals or other geology materials from the earth, usually from an ore body, vein or seam. Materials recovered by mining include base metals, precious metals, iron, uranium, coal, diamonds, limestone, oil shale, Sodium chloride and potash....
, power generation applications.
  • MAN Ferrostaal
    MAN Ferrostaal

    MAN Ferrostaal is a provider of industrial services. With 4,200 employees and an annual turnover of euro 1.4 billion euro , MAN Ferrostaal serves customers in more than 60 countries worldwide....
     AG (30% stake, remainder owned by International Petroleum Investment Company)
Industrial
Industry

An industry is the manufacturing of a Good or Service within a category. Although industry is a broad term for any kind of economic production, in economics and urban planning industry is a synonym for the secondary sector, which is a type of economic activity involved in the manufacturing of raw materials into goods and products....
 services: projecting, delivery, assembly, including steel-based structures
  • RENK
    Renk

    RENK AG is a Germany company, part of the MAN AG group. It has its headquarters in Augsburg and is producer of gears, other components of propulsion technology and test systems....
     AG
Vehicle Transmissions, Industrial Gear Units, Marine Gear Units, Slide Bearings, Couplings

Products - MAN Nutzfahrzeuge AG division


Trucks and military vehicles

  • LE Series
  • FE Series
  • - military
  • - military
  • TGL Series, with hybrid trucks ( MAN TGL OPTISTRANG and TGL EDA
    EDA

    Eda may refer to:* Eda, Sweden, a municipality in west central Sweden on the Norwegian border* Eda , a Turkish given name* EDA EDA is an acronym for:...
    ).
  • TGM Series
  • TGA Series
  • TGX/S Series
  • ERF
    ERF (lorry manufacturer)

    ERF was a British truck manufacturer. Established in 1933 by Edwin Richard Foden, its factory in Sandbach, Cheshire was closed in 2002, and finished as a brand by owner MAN AG in 2007....
     - a UK only brand, bought from Western Star
    Western Star

    Western Star Trucks is a Redford Township, Michigan, United States based manufacturer of Class 8 Commerce trucks....
     (which soon after became part of Freightliner LLC
    Freightliner LLC

    Freightliner Trucks is a manufacturer of heavy duty trucks, chassis and semi-trailer trucks in the United States. The company was founded as Freightliner LLC in 1942 and is now a division of Daimler Trucks North America, a subsidiary of Daimler AG....
    ) in 2000
  • Hazmat tender
  • Angloco foam tender
  • Command unit


Buses

  • Lion's City
    MAN Lion's City

    MAN Lion's City is a city bus built by the Germany truck and bus manufacturer MAN AG since 2000. A new generation was launched in 2004.It has a 6-cylinder turbocharged straight engine which runs on diesel, compressed natural gas or liquid petrol gas....
     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 223/233/263 (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/ 240/ 260/ 310 HOCL-NL (LF)
  • 18.260/ 310/ 360/ 410/ 460 HOCL
  • 24.310
    MAN 24.310

    MAN AG 24.310 is a low floor double decker bus model built for the Hong Kong market. Unlike other low-floor double decker buses in Hong Kong, there are steps in the lower deck aisle after the rear exit....
    / 360/ 410/ 460 HOCLN
  • 28.310 HGOCL


See also

  • Ultracap
  • ZF Friedrichshafen
    ZF Friedrichshafen

    ZF Friedrichshafen AG is a leading worldwide supplier of Powertrain and chassis technology. With 119 production locations in 26 countries, ZF provides components and systems to the automotive, commercial vehicle, off-highway/construction, marine, rail, and aviation industries, as well for industrial applications....


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