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Sulzer Ltd. is a Swiss
Switzerland

Switzerland is a landlocked Swiss Alps country of roughly 7.7 million people in Western Europe with an area of 41,285 km?. Switzerland is a federal republic consisting of 26 states called Cantons of Switzerland....
 industrial engineering and manufacturing firm established as Sulzer Brothers Ltd. in 1834 in Winterthur
Winterthur

Winterthur is a city in the Cantons of Switzerland of Zurich in northern Switzerland. It has the country's List of cities in Switzerland#Major agglomerations by population with an estimate of more than 100,000 people....
, Switzerland
Switzerland

Switzerland is a landlocked Swiss Alps country of roughly 7.7 million people in Western Europe with an area of 41,285 km?. Switzerland is a federal republic consisting of 26 states called Cantons of Switzerland....
. Today it is a publicly owned
Public company

A public company usually refers to a company that is permitted to offer its registered Security for sale to the general public, typically through a stock exchange, but also may include companies whose stock is traded Over-the-counter via market makers who use non-exchange quotation services such as the OTCBB and the Pink Sheets....
 company with international subsidiaries. The company's shares are listed on the Swiss Stock Exchange.

Sulzer Brothers helped develop shuttleless weaving
Weaving

Weaving is the textile arts in which two distinct sets of yarn, called the Warp and the filling or weft , are interlaced with each other to form a textile....
, and their core business was loom
Loom

A loom is a machine or device for weaving thread or yarn into textiles. Looms can range from very small hand-held frames, to large free-standing hand looms, to huge automatic mechanical devices....
 manufacture. 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....
 worked for Sulzer in 1879, and in 1893 Sulzer bought certain rights to 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....
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Sulzer Ltd. is a Swiss
Switzerland

Switzerland is a landlocked Swiss Alps country of roughly 7.7 million people in Western Europe with an area of 41,285 km?. Switzerland is a federal republic consisting of 26 states called Cantons of Switzerland....
 industrial engineering and manufacturing firm established as Sulzer Brothers Ltd. in 1834 in Winterthur
Winterthur

Winterthur is a city in the Cantons of Switzerland of Zurich in northern Switzerland. It has the country's List of cities in Switzerland#Major agglomerations by population with an estimate of more than 100,000 people....
, Switzerland
Switzerland

Switzerland is a landlocked Swiss Alps country of roughly 7.7 million people in Western Europe with an area of 41,285 km?. Switzerland is a federal republic consisting of 26 states called Cantons of Switzerland....
. Today it is a publicly owned
Public company

A public company usually refers to a company that is permitted to offer its registered Security for sale to the general public, typically through a stock exchange, but also may include companies whose stock is traded Over-the-counter via market makers who use non-exchange quotation services such as the OTCBB and the Pink Sheets....
 company with international subsidiaries. The company's shares are listed on the Swiss Stock Exchange.

Sulzer Brothers helped develop shuttleless weaving
Weaving

Weaving is the textile arts in which two distinct sets of yarn, called the Warp and the filling or weft , are interlaced with each other to form a textile....
, and their core business was loom
Loom

A loom is a machine or device for weaving thread or yarn into textiles. Looms can range from very small hand-held frames, to large free-standing hand looms, to huge automatic mechanical devices....
 manufacture. 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....
 worked for Sulzer in 1879, and in 1893 Sulzer bought certain rights to 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....
s. Sulzer built their first diesel engine in 1898.

Sulzer was blacklisted by the Allies during World War Two due to a increase in trade with Nazi Germany. Sulzer refused to sign an agreement to limit the future sale of marine diesel engines to the Axis countries and was blacklisted by the Allies as a result.

Sulzer developed a series of traction engines in the 1930's and 1940's which were used extensively in the UK, Europe and South America. A small number were used in locomotives in South Africa and Several experimental diesels were built in the US.

In 1990 Sulzer spun off the diesel engine division into a separate company named "New Sulzer Diesel" (NSD) and sold the majority of New Sulzer Diesel's shares, retaining only a minority ownership in the company. In 1997 NSD was absorbed by Wärtsilä
Wärtsilä

W?rtsil? is a Finland manufacturer of large diesel and gas engine engines for use in powering ships and electricity generation. The company's headquarters are located in Helsinki....
, which created Wärtsilä NSD. Wärtsilä NSD is the maker of the world's largest diesel engine, Wärtsilä-Sulzer RTA96-C
Wärtsilä-Sulzer RTA96-C

The W?rtsil? RT-flex96C turbocharged two-stroke diesel engine is currently considered the largest reciprocating engine in the world, designed for large container ships, running on heavy fuel oil....
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Organisation


The company is divided in four main divisions:
  • - Pump
    Pump

    A pump is a device used to move fluids, such as gases, liquids or Slurry. A pump displaces a volume by physical or mechanical action. One common misconception about pumps is the thought that they create pressure....
    ing systems, 49% of the revenue and 5686 employees. It produces centrifugal pumps and agitators/mixers for the Oil, Hydrocarbon, Paper, Power Generation, Water, Food, Metals and Fertilizer industries at a global scale.
  • - Services and products for thermal spray and thin film
    Thin film

    Thin films are thin material Layer s ranging from fractions of a nanometre to several micrometres in thickness. Electronics semiconductor devices and optical coatings are the main applications benefiting from thin film construction....
     surface technologies, 21.3% of revenue with 2054 employees.
  • - Components and services for separation columns and static mixing, 21.5% of the revenue and 2393 employees.
  • - Service and repair of thermal turbomachinery
    Turbomachinery

    In mechanical engineering, turbomachinery describes machines that transfer energy between a Rotor and a fluid, including both turbines and Gas compressor....
    . Also manufactures spares for gas turbines, steam turbines, and compressors. 7.9% of revenue with 1179 employees.


Sulzer also operates , a small R&D division.