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[[File:MAN_TGA_26.390_truck_-_BU05_LRN_at_Rushden_2010_-_IMG_9310.jpg|thumb|A Modern [[MAN TGA 26.390]] tractor unit used to haul one of the exhibit low loaders at the [[Rushden Steam Rally]] in 2010]]
 
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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 incotperates 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 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 in Austria in 1991, Formerly Known as Steyr-Daimler-Punch 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.

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

  • MAN Nutzfahrzeuge AG (roughly 50% of overall sales; 88% of division sales come from European market)[10]
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.
  • MAN Ferrostaal AG (roughly 20% of sales)
Industrial services: projecting, delivery, assembly, including steel-based structures[13]
  • RENK AG
Vehicle Transmissions, Industrial Gear Units, Marine Gear Units, Slide Bearings, Couplings

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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


Motorpflug

Gespannschlepper

A 25 A 25 Allrad A 32 A 40 A 45 A A 50

AS 250 AS 325 AS 330 AS 420 Allrad AS 430 AS 440 AS 542 Allrad AS 718 Allrad

B 18 A/0 B 18 A B 18 A/1 B 45 Allrad

C 40

D 40 Allrad

2F1 2F1S 2K1 2K2 2K3 2L1 2L2 2L3 2L4 2L5 2N1 2P1 2R1 2R2 2R3 2S1 2S2

4K1 Allrad 4L1 Allrad 4L2 Allrad 4N1 Allrad 4N2 Allrad 4P1 Allrad 4R1 Allrad 4R2 Allrad 4R3 Allrad 4S1 Allrad 4S2 Allrad 4S3 Allrad 4T1 Allrad 4S2B Allrad


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References / sources


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