MAN Features
Press Newsletter December 2007
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12,000 new jobs for South Africa
- South Africa has just opened its first manufacturing site for oil and gas platforms. This marks the emergence of a new industrial sector in the country, focusing on the international oil and gas business.
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Environmental conservation on the high seas
- MAN Diesel is a world leader in the production of environmentally friendly ship's engines. In order to keep up this standard, the company invests 30 million euros of its 110 million euro research and development budget in emissions research.
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MAN Diesel - Leader in Bio-fuel Applications
- Renewable fuels are set to play a major role in achieving the greenhouse gas reduction. The Power Plant business unit of MAN Diesel can point to a pioneering role. Today MAN Diesel is the Market and Technology Leader in Bio-fuel Applications.
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Fountain of youth for vintage vessel
- MAN Diesel PrimeServ in Hamburg has a combined fund of expertise, and so is able to recondition diesel engines both old and new.
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Under high pressure to the storage chamber
- So as to ensure that it will be readily available in peak demand periods at the place where it is to be used, natural gas is stored underground. Without MAN Turbo's compressors this operation would be impossible.
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A hands on bus museum
- Bus history on your doorstep is offered by the new Auwärter Museum in Landau on the river Isar, not far removed from the main NEOPLAN plant in Pilsting.
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Improved safety standards for gas pipelines
- MAN Turbo and its license partners Åsgard have successfully tested an improved, integrated compressor for the conveyance of untreated natural gas from boreholes.
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MAN lays foundation stone for new head office
- The foundation stone has been laid for the new corporate head office of MAN AG in Munich: a representative ultra-modern building in steel and glass in the Schwabing district, to accommodate 200 employees in 7000 square meters of office space on five stories.
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