With over 10,000 installed turbo machines, MAN Diesel & Turbo is one of the leading suppliers in our sector. Roughly half of all world trade is transported using MAN engines: some 48,000 ships are fitted with our engines – not to mention an ever increasing number of diesel power plants. But with our worldwide success follows a responsibility for the effects of global trading. Hence, a central role of ours as world leader in the manufacture of large diesel engines is the protection of the environment. Against a backdrop of ever stricter emissions legislation, it is capacity for innovation which will decide how MAN Diesel & Turbo holds our own against our competitors.

Hundreds of engineers work away on tomorrow’s technologies. Their highest goal is the continuous improvement of the profitability and environmental sustainability of the products. Day by day they seek out new ways of exploiting technical innovations, for instance to further minimise the emissions of large diesel engines or to improve the efficiency of turbo machines. Development of the big MAN two-stroke engines is carried out in Copenhagen (Denmark), while the research and development department for four-stroke engines and turbochargers is located in Augsburg (Germany). The development centre for turbo engines for the processing industry is Oberhausen (Germany), while Zürich (Switzerland) is the home of research and development for oil and gas industry plants.

Our investments in the R&D area are above the industry average. In 2009 alone, investments amounted to EUR 252 million, some 6.6 per cent of turnover. This makes us one of Europe’s high-tech companies. The knowledge gained is applied to many different national and international research projects.