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Encyclopedia > Pielstick

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 (MTU has a minority shareholding of 33%). 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 is a German manufacturer (engineering works) and marketer of commercial vehicles, industrial services, printing systems, diesel and gas engines, and turbomachines. ... MTU Aero Engines, Germanys leading aircraft engine manufacturer, develops, manufactures and provides service support for aircraft engines, military and civil alike. ...


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. 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:

Fairbanks-Morse, located in Beloit, Wisconsin has specialized in the manufacture of opposed piston diesel engines for United States Naval vessels and railroad locomotives since 1932. ... Rolls-Royce plc (LSE: RR.) (also known as Rolls-Royce Aero Engines) is the second-largest aircraft engine maker in the world, behind General Electrics GE Aircraft Engines division. ... The Doosan Group is a large South Korean industrial and construction conglomerate (chaebol). ... Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. ...

Notes

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

External links

  • www.pielstick.com


 

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