Sulzer Ltd. is a Swiss industrial engineering and manufacturing firm established as Sulzer Brothers Ltd. in 1834 in Winterthur, Switzerland. Today it is a publicly owned company with subsidiaries throughout the world. The company's shares are listed on the Swiss Stock Exchange. 1834 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... Winterthur is a city in the Canton of Zurich in Switzerland. ... A publicly traded corporation often refers to a company whose shares are traded on the open market, such as a stock market. ... SWX Swiss Exchange is Switzerlands stock exchange. ...

Sulzer Brothers were pioneers in the development in shuttleless weaving, and world leaders in loom manufacturing. Sulzer was also an early sponsor of Rudolf Diesel. Diesel worked for Sulzer in 1879, and in 1893 Sulzer bought certain rights to diesel engines. Sulzer built their first diesel engine in 1898. Tweed loom, Harris, 2004 Weaving is an ancient textile art and craft that involves placing two sets of threads or yarn made of fiber called the warp and weft of the loom and turning them into cloth. ... LOOM is a graphical adventure game, originally released in 1990, published by LucasArts (known at the time as Lucasfilm Games). ... (This article is about Rudolf Diesel, the German inventor. ...

In 1990 Sulzer spun off the diesel engine division into a separate company named "New Sulzer Diesel" (NSD) and sold the majority of New Sulzer Diesel's shares, retaining only a minority ownership in the company. 1997 NSD was absorbed by Wärtsilä, which created Wärtsilä NSD. Wärtsilä NSD is the maker of the world largest diesel engine, Wärtsilä-Sulzer RTA96-C. Wärtsilä is a Finnish manufacturer of power plants (mainly diesel-powered) for use in electricity generation and ship power, and associated services. ... The Wärtsilä-Sulzer RTA96-C turbocharged two-stroke diesel engine is the largest engine in the world, designed for large container ships. ...