MAN AG

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MAN AG

Type	Public (ISIN: DE0005937007, FWB: EDF1)
Founded	1758
Headquarters	Munich, Germany 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, turbomachines, industrial services
Revenue	€ 13 billion (Dec 2006)
Employees	50,000 (Dec 2006)
Slogan	Engineering the Future
Website	www.MAN.eu

MAN AG (German: Maschinenfabrik Augsburg-Nürnberg AG, ISIN: DE0005937007) is a German transportation company. The MAN Group is mostly known for producing buses and trucks also big diesel engines for oceangoing ships though the group is primarily involved in engineering activities. MAN specializes in:

Commercial vehicles
Diesel and hybrid diesel-electric engines
Turbomachines
Industrial services

1 History
2 Divisions
3 Products - MAN Nutzfahrzeuge AG division
- 3.1 Trucks/military
- 3.2 Buses
4 Electrodynamic moving-off element
5 Notes
6 See also
7 External links

History

In 1898 the Maschinenbau-AG Nürnberg (founded in 1841) and the Maschinenfabrik Augsburg AG (founded in 1840) merged to become the Vereinigte Maschinenfabrik Augsburg und Maschinenbaugesellschaft Nürnberg A.G., Augsburg. The company was renamed in 1908 to Maschinenfabrik Augsburg-Nürnberg AG, Augsburg (M.A.N.). From 1894 to 1897, Rudolf Diesel developed diesel engine technology together with engineers of MAN in the Augsburg plant of MAN. In 1924, the company showed a diesel truck at the Berlin Motor Show, which was purchased in numbers by the Bavarian Post Office.^[1] During the 1930s, MAN marine diesels were licence-produced in the U.S. and installed in fleet submarines, were they proved troublesome and unpopular in the Pacific War.^[2] Today, MAN is one of Europe's leading manufacturers of engineering equipment and vehicles. In 2006, its 50,000 employees generated annual sales of around €13 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 listed on the DAX and is well respected^{[attribution needed]} in the field of transport engineering, having won numerous prizes. The latest ones achieved were in 2007 with the title "Truck of the year" and 2006 "coach of the year". 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. In 2008 MAN will celebrate the 250th anniversary of the company with a gala event in Munich, exibitions in Munich and Oberhausen. One highlight should be an Oldtimer Truck Convoy on a historical route from Nuremberg over Augsburg to Munich.

Divisions

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 Nutzfahrzeuge AG [1] (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%)

MAN Diesel SE

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 Turbo AG [2]

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 [3] (roughly 20% of sales)

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

MAN low cabin waste collection truck

MAN Lion's coach

MAN CNG City bus in Bangkok (Out-of-Service)

A container-ship with a MAN B&W Diesel engine

Products - MAN Nutzfahrzeuge AG division

Trucks/military

LE Series
FE Series
HX Series - military
SX Series - military
TGL Series, with hybrid trucks ( MAN TGL OPTISTRANG and TGL EDA).
TGM Series
TGA Series
TGX/S Series
ERF - a UK only brand, bought from Paccar in 2000
Hazmat tender
Angloco foam tender
Command unit

Buses

Main article: MAN AG 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.