MAN Features
Press Newsletter June 2007
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New Plant and New MAN House in China
- MAN is becoming even more involved in China than before. MAN Turbo AG started up its own plant in Changzhou for the production and service of turbo machinery. Also new is the MAN House in Beijing, in which the MAN Group can bundle its activities in China.
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Gazprom Orders Innovative Engine Technology
- MAN Diesel has received the first order for the newly developed gas engine 32/40PGI. The Russian energy provider MOSOBLENERGOGAS ordered two engines for in a power plant in Moscow.
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MAN Think Tank
- Many employees at MAN have good ideas. The best innovative recommendations are implemented in cooperation with the Technical University Munich.
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Platform for Africa’s Oil and Gas Industry
- There are more than 100 billion barrels of oil in Africa, often in the greater depths of the sea off the coasts. Therefore, MAN Ferrostaal is starting a project that is to provide assistance here and return a lost industry to South Africa.
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MAN Makes Mexico Mobile
- Mexico’s means of mass transportation is the bus. Since the market launch three years ago, MAN has already been able to sell more than 1,200 chassis for coaches in the luxury class (fully air-conditioned, no more than 24 seats). With just under 330 units, MAN took over market leadership in this segment in 2006.
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Bus Travel: A Vacation for the Environment
- If you want to protect the environment when traveling on vacation, then you should take the bus. In terms of pollutant emissions, the bus is even ahead of the railway, and leaves aircraft as well as cars far behind.
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Fuels for Commercial Vehicles of the Future
- The MAN research team is working hard on developing environmentally friendly fuels for the commercial vehicles of the future. The entire MAN group supports the introduction of synthetic fuels derived from a variety of processes.
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Sunny Outlooks
- The starting signal sounds for a pilot project: MAN Ferrostaal will construct the first solar thermal power plant in the Spanish province of Almería. The goal of the facility is the commercialization of the technology beginning in 2008.
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