SEMT Pielstick^[1] is a French diesel engine manufacturer based at Villepinte, France and owned by MAN B&W Diesel, a subsidiary of MAN AG Villepinte is the name of two communes in France: Villepinte, in the Aude département Villepinte, in the Seine-Saint-Denis département This is a disambiguation page, a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title. ... The MAN B&W Diesel Group is a supplier of large diesel engines for marine propulsion systems, stationary power supply and rail traction. ... MAN AG (formerly called Maschinenfabrik Augsburg-Nürnberg AG, ISIN: DE0005937007) is a German transportation company. ...

SEMT Pielstick was formed in 1988 when the business was acquired from GEC Alsthom by MAN and MTU, originally as a 50/50 partnership. MAN increased its shareholding in February 1998 and in December 2006 bought the remaining 33% of the shares held by MTU, thus making MAN the sole shareholder of SEMT Pielstick. The company has been renamed MAN DIESEL SA and trades under this name. Alstom (formerly GEC-Alsthom) (Euronext: ALO) is a large French company whose businesses are power generation and manufacturing trains (e. ...

Licensees

Pielstick engines have been/are produced by many licensees and hence are known by many different names:

• Colt-Pielstick — Fairbanks Morse — United States
• Crossley-Pielstick — Rolls-Royce — United Kingdom
• Doosan-Pielstick — Doosan Heavy Industries Construction Co (DHICO) — Republic of Korea
• Hyundia-Pielstick — Hyundai Heavy Industries — Republic of Korea
• Kirloskar-Pielstick — Kirloskar Oil Engines Ltd. — India
• Lindholmen-Pielstick — Lindholmen Motor AB — Sweden
• Pielstick — Shaanxi Diesel Engine Works — China

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Notes

1. ^  SEMT: Societe d’Etudes de Machines Thermiques; roughly translated company for the study of thermal engines.

External links

• www.pielstick.com