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MAN AG
Type Public (ISIN: DE0005937007, FWB: EDF1)
Founded 1758
Headquarters Munich, Germany Flag of Germany manufacturing facilities in the Ruhr area, Augsburg and abroad
Key people Håkan Samuelsson, President and CEO
Industry Manufacturing
Products commercial vehicles, industrial services, Diesel and hybrid diesel-electric engines, Turbomachines
Revenue 15 billion (2005)
Employees 60,000 (2005)
Website www.MAN.de

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The MAN Group is mostly known for producing buses and trucks also big diesel engine for oceangoing ships though the group is primarily involved in engineering activities.[citation needed] Autobus redirects here. ... For other uses, see Truck (disambiguation). ...


MAN specializes in:

Contents

A commercial vehicle is a type of vehicle used for carrying goods or passengers. ... This article is about the fuel. ... A Petroleum Electric Hybrid Vehicle (PEHV) is a vehicle using an on-board rechargeable energy storage system (RESS) and a fueled power source for vehicle propulsion. ... This article is about a term used in economics. ...

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 1987 Rudolf Diesel developed the Diesel technology together with engineers of MAN in the Augsburg plant of MAN.


Today it is one of Europe's leading manufacturers of engineering equipment and vehicles. In 2005, its 60,000 employees generated annual sales of around 15 billion in 120 different countries. The company has joint ventures and other cooperations with local companies in India, Poland, Turkey, and the United States. For other uses, see Euro (disambiguation). ...


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".[citation needed] DAX 30 chart in the Frankfurt Stock Exchange DAX 30 (Deutsche Aktien Xchange 30, former Deutscher Aktien-Index 30) is a Blue Chip stock market index consisting of the 30 major German companies trading on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. ...


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 14.8% 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%. It is expected that a combined MAN-Scania will also absorb Volkswagen's Brazilian Heavy Truck operations. is the 261st day of the year (262nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A vintage Scania truck (L80 successor to the Scania-Vabis L56) Scania A1 1901 Scania Type A Tonneau 1903 Scania AB is a leading European manufacturer of heavy trucks (British English: lorries), buses, and diesel engines, based in Södertälje, Sweden. ... Volkswagen AG (TYO: 7659) is a German corporation. ... Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles or Volkswagen Nutzfahrzeuge started originally as part of Volkswagen itself. ...


In 2008 MAN celebrates the 250. anniversary of the company with a gala event in 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.
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%)
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.
Industrial services: projecting, delivery, assembly, including steel-based structures
MAN low cabin waste collection truck
MAN low cabin waste collection truck
MAN Lion's coach
A container-ship with a MAN B&W Diesel engine

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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

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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


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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. For other uses, see Clutch (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Gear (disambiguation). ... A booster may mean: a booster dose in medicine, refers to a vaccination given after a previous vaccination. ...


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. Starter may refer to an automobile self starter, or starter motor the person who fires a pistol or waves a flag to indicate the start of a race bread starter, (also called sponge) a fermented mixture used in baking sourdough a motor starter, or electric motor starter used to start... Early 20th century Alternator made in Budapest, Hungary, in the power generating hall of a hydroelectric station. ... Houses in Fishpool Street, St Albans, England For other meanings of the word house, see House (disambiguation). ... ZF Friedrichshafen AG (meaning Zahnradfabrik Friedrichshafen Aktiengesellschaft which was until 1992 the name of the company) is a leading supplier of automobile transmissions. ...


See also

Various types of capacitors A capacitor is a device that stores energy in the electric field created between a pair of conductors on which equal but opposite electric charges have been placed. ... ZF Friedrichshafen AG (meaning Zahnradfabrik Friedrichshafen Aktiengesellschaft which was until 1992 the name of the company) is a leading supplier of automobile transmissions. ...

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The MAN Group is focusing its activities in India through new headquarters in Mumbai where in the form of the MAN House Mumbai, opened today, MAN experts representing the entire product portfolio of this foremost commercial vehicle and mechanical engineering group will be locally at the service of customers and partners.
In all, the MAN Group employs a workforce of 228 at its Indian locations besides engaging in apprentice training; skilled workers from India attend initial and advanced courses in Germany.
The first chapter in MAN Turbo's success story in India was written in the thirties in the form of participation in the construction of steel mills which it also supplied shortly thereafter with machinery.
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The MAN Group is one of Europe’s foremost industrial players in the sector of Transport-Related Engineering, with sales in 2007 of some €15.5 billion.
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