MAN Features
Press Newsletter January 2012
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Mission possible
- A tough job awaits in the oil industry: As of mid-2014, four ultra-modern special ships will be towing, positioning and supplying mobile drilling platforms on the high seas. MAN engines provide the drive for these operations.
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Building a century on diesel patents
- Shipyards all over the world utilize MAN’s licenses to independently build and market two-stroke and four-stroke engines. Issuing licenses for the construction of ship engines has a long tradition: It has been a hundred years since MAN first acquired a foothold in the Japanese market.
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Through different eyes
- Technology does not exist in a vacuum, but is always influenced by cultural habits and patterns. In partnership with MAN, the globalDrive initiative of Munich’s Technical University explored the details.
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Tomorrow’s transport
- Modern hybrid technology is gaining a foothold in trucks. In cooperation with a wholesaler in Munich, MAN is currently testing two of its TGL trucks with an electrical and diesel engine in daily operations. The vehicles are serving as pioneers for alternative drives in distribution transport.
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The perfect food
- Oysters have to arrive at the restaurant table alive, which makes their transportation exceptionally problematic. Especially when the 730 kilometer journey from Brazil's main production area in the state of Santa Catarina to the main buyer in São Paulo is made through a hot country under difficult road conditions.
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‘Power stations will be a huge topic’
- In early September 2011, René Umlauft became CEO of MAN Diesel & Turbo and a Member of the MAN SE Executive Board. A conversation about MAN’s global orientation, the next generation of specialists and green technologies of the future.
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The five lives of a truck
- Every year, thousands of well-maintained MAN trucks leave Western European roads to enter their next stage of life—be it as the pride and joy of a haulage contractor in the Near East or to provide transport in an African metropolis. A set out to track them down.
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Fit for the road
- Driving safely and economically is the name of the game at MAN ProfiDrive—for 30 years now truck and bus drivers have been shown how to get the most out of their MAN.
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