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MAN AG
Type Public company: AG
Founded 1897
Founder(s) Rudolf Diesel
Headquarters Munich, Germany
Number of locations manufacturing facilities in the Ruhr area, Augsburg, and outside Germany
Key people Håkan Samuelsson, President and CEO
Industry Manufacturing
Products Trucks,
buses,
diesel and other engines,
turbo machines
Services industrial services
Revenue (turnover) € 15,5 billion (2007)[1]
Operating income € 1,913 million (2007)[1]
Profit profit € 1,225 million (2007)[1]
Employees 55,000 (Dec 2007)
Website www.MAN.eu

MAN AG is a German engineering company based in Munich, Germany. The company goes back to 1758, and incorporates several well known names including ERF (UK), Steyr (Austria) and shares in Volkswagen and Scania.

MAN is one of Europe's leading manufacturers of engineering equipment and commercial vehicles. MAN supplies trucks, buses, diesel engines, turbine machinery, 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 is also the oldest company within the DAX. The company celebrates its 250th anniversary in 2008.[2] 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 joint venture 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[3] (Innovationspreis der deutschen Wirtschaft) in the Major Enterprises category for its innovative 32/40PGI gas engine.[4]

History[]

MAN logo

This logo is on the front of all MAN trucks and buses. The lion comes from Büssing AG, a company that MAN acquired in 1971.

MAN traces its origins back to 1758, when the "St. Antony" ironworks commenced 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" 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 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 quantity by the Bavarian Post Office.[5]

During the 1930s, MAN marine diesels were produced under license in the U.S., and installed in the US Navy fleet submarines, where they proved troublesome and unpopular in the Pacific War.[6]

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 remerged into MAN with its headquarters in Munich.

The MAN group took over the truck builder Steyr Nutzfahrzeuge AG of Vienna, Austria in 1991, Formerly Known as Steyr-Daimler-Puch AG, which also has truck building works in Turkey (MAN-A.S.) and India (Shakti-MAN).[7]

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. MAN AG bought 15.6% of the voting shares in Scania AB. Volkswagen Group, 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 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.[8] It was also originally speculated that Volkswagen intended to acquire MAN Truck and Bus division by the end of 2008.[9] 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.

MANConstellation

MAN VW Constellation truck

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


Divisions/Subsidiaries/Joint Ventures[]

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.
  • MAN Ferrostaal AG (roughly 20% of sales)
Industrial services: projecting, delivery, assembly, including steel-based structures[11]
  • MAN Nutzfahrzeuge AG ([[[MAN Truck & Bus]]]])(roughly 50% of overall sales; 88% of division sales come from European market)[12]
Commercial vehicles: trucks (61% of group sales), aftermarket parts and service (18%), buses (14%), engines and components (7%)
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.
Vehicle Transmissions, Industrial Gear Units, Marine Gear Units, Slide Bearings, Couplings

[14]

Hong Kong-based subsidiary of Sinotruk.

Former Divisions[]

Products - MAN Nutzfahrzeuge AG division[]

Trucks and military vehicles[]

MAN TGA 26

A Modern MAN TGA 26.390 tractor unit used to haul one of the exhibit low loaders at the Rushden Steam Rally in 2010

MAN TGX 26440 bls XLX

A modern MAN TGX 26.440

Specialist emergency service vehicle
  • MAN Hazmat tender
  • MAN Angloco foam tender
  • MAN Command unit
MAN 4-WD tractor -Driffield- P8100528

A MAN 4-wd tractor

Buses[]

MAN tractor 4-WD axle detail-P8100529

MAN front 4-wd axle showing suspension and Differential

See Wikipedia:MAN AG Buses for more details
  • MAN Lion's City|Lion's City city/interurban bus
  • MAN Lion's Classic|Lion's Classic city/interurban bus
  • MAN Lion's Regio|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
  • MAN 14.220 HOCL-NL
  • 16.200
  • 18.220/ 260/ 280 HOCL-SL
  • 18.220/ 260/ 280/ 310/ 360 HOCL-SÜ
  • MAN 18.220/ 240/ 260/ 310 HOCL-NL (LF)
  • 18.260/ 310/ 360/ 410/ 460 HOCL
  • MAN 24.310|24.310/ 360/ 410/ 460 HOCLN
  • 28.310 HGOCL

MAN Tractors division[]

MAN tractor with mid mower - bath- DSC01603

A small MAN tractor with mid mounted Mower, at the Bath and Southwest Tractor show 2009

MAN Tractor Models
Model Year(s) Produced Horsepower Engine Type Misc Notes Photo
MAN A 25
MAN A 32
MAN A 40
MAN A 45
MAN A 50
MAN AS 250 50 hp (37 kW)
MAN AS 250 SH
MAN AS 325 A
MAN AS 325 H 25 hp (19 kW)
MAN AS 330 A
MAN AS 420
MAN AS 430 32 hp (24 kW)
MAN AS 440 40 hp (30 kW)
MAN AS 440H 40 hp (30 kW)
MAN AS 540
MAN AS 542 42 hp (31 kW)
MAN AS 542 A 42 hp (31 kW)
MAN AS 718 A
MAN B18 18 hp (13 kW) Guldner
MAN B18 A/0 18 hp (13 kW)
MAN B18 A/1 18 hp (13 kW)
MAN B45
MAN C40 40 hp (30 kW)
MAN D40
MAN Gespannschlepper
MAN Motorpflug
MAN 2F1
MAN 2F1S
MAN 2K1
MAN 2K2 21 hp (16 kW)
MAN 2K3
MAN 2L1
MAN 2L2
MAN 2L3
MAN 2L4
MAN 2L5
MAN 2N1
MAN 2N2 28 hp (21 kW)
MAN 2P1
MAN 2R1
MAN 2R2 40 hp (30 kW) MAN
MAN 2R3
MAN 2S1
MAN 2S2 50 hp (37 kW) MAN
MAN 4K1 Allrad
MAN 4L1 Allrad
MAN 4L2 Allrad
MAN 4N1 Allrad
MAN 4N2 Allrad 28 hp (21 kW)
MAN 4P1 Allrad 35 hp (26 kW)
MAN 4R1 Allrad
MAN 4R2 Allrad
MAN 4R3 Allrad 45 hp (34 kW) MAN M.A.N 4R3 1961
MAN 4S1 Allrad 50 hp (37 kW) MAN MAN 4S1 50PS 1957
MAN 4S2 Allrad 50 hp (37 kW) MAN MAN 4S2 50PS 1959 - wikimedia commons
MAN 4S2B Allrad MAN
MAN 4S3 Allrad 55 hp (41 kW) MAN prototype MAN 4S3 Prototyp
MAN 4T1 Allrad 60 hp (45 kW) MAN MAN 4T1 front

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