MAN Features

MAN commits to clear climate target

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 23:00:00 GMT

MAN will be playing a significant role in CO₂ reduction: it intends to reduce its own CO₂ emissions at MAN sites by 25 percent worldwide by 2020 (baseline: 2008).

Room for innovation

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 23:00:00 GMT

In its Augsburg-based Research & Development Forum, MAN Diesel & Turbo presents the latest technologies in a modern high-tech ambiance.

School for smooth operators

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 23:00:00 GMT

MAN’s trucks, buses, engines and turbines are built for a very long service life. To ensure their high performance in this long run, however, the customers must operate them correctly. At the MAN Academies, they can learn how to best handle the equipment.

Touring in concert

Sat, 31 Mar 2012 23:00:00 GMT

The most valuable possessions of any orchestra are certainly its instruments. All the more important to protect them against damage during travel. That’s why the Royal Scottish National Orchestra counts on a TGX from MAN, coupled with an air-conditioned trailer from the firm Gray & Adams.

MAN keeps top racing teams on the move

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 23:00:00 GMT

In the 2012 season, which has just started, several of the top racing teams are using MAN TGX transporters to get them to the V8 Supercars Championship races in Australia.

New leading position for MAN in Denmark

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 23:00:00 GMT

MAN recorded its highest ever market share in the Danish truck market in fiscal year 2011 at 23.3 percent. This enabled MAN to confirm its top position in Denmark, where it was already at a leading level the previous year with 20.8 percent.

Engineer without borders

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 23:00:00 GMT

Simon Bucher is a component developer at MAN Truck & Bus in Nuremberg. In early 2009, the 27-year-old and a few other engineers founded the local group of the non-profit organization "Engineers Without Borders", which conducts technical projects in developing countries. An interview.

Trucks in the underbelly

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 23:00:00 GMT

Europe’s largest shipping terminal for cars sits in Bremerhaven. MAN trucks are also dispatched from here—such as in the hold of the “Grand Phoenix”. This car carrier is powered by an MAN engine with an output of nearly 23,000 hp

Order for the maintenance of cruise liners

Sat, 31 Mar 2012 23:00:00 GMT

MAN Diesel & Turbo has received an order from the US-based cruise liner company Norwegian Cruise Line (NCL) for the maintenance of the engines on nine cruise liners. The order is worth US$ 30 million.

More than 25 years of MAN Forum

Sat, 31 Mar 2012 23:00:00 GMT

A magazine with tradition: Since late 1986, MAN Forum has been tracking the progress of MAN as it evolved into the leading European industrial company of today. This quarter century has witnessed the publication of 45 issues.

Standards for all employees worldwide

Sat, 31 Mar 2012 23:00:00 GMT

The MAN SE Executive Board, the MAN SE Works Council, and the International Metalworkers’ Federation (IMF) have signed a Joint Declaration on Human Rights and Working Conditions in the MAN Group.

Modern lifestyle travelling

Sat, 31 Mar 2012 23:00:00 GMT

MAN Truck & Bus presented the BusDays 2012 in the Truck and the Bus Forum in Munich. The company displayed its current range of MAN and NEOPLAN brand buses and provided information on efficient technologies as well as on trends in city buses, intercity buses and touring coaches with modern lifestyle travelling.

MAN strengthens its position in Russia

Sat, 31 Mar 2012 23:00:00 GMT

For the second time in a row, MAN has emerged the number one among European manufacturers of commercial vehicles in Russia. With sales of over 7,600 trucks and 220 buses, MAN reached pre-crisis order volumes in fiscal year 2011.

More freight, less energy

Sat, 31 Mar 2012 23:00:00 GMT

According to the Commercial Vehicles 2020 study conducted by the Oliver Wyman consultancy, truck manufacturers must increasingly seek solutions to extend the operational life of a vehicle. Author Wolfgang Krenz explains which challenges are ahead for the commercial vehicles industry.

Into the desert

Sat, 31 Mar 2012 23:00:00 GMT

In the Emirate of Qatar, two German engineers have set up a service center for MAN Diesel & Turbo in an industrial park that sits in the middle of the desert—and today employs a staff of 70. A visit to the sweltering desert state.

“We shall build the strongest one”

Sat, 31 Mar 2012 23:00:00 GMT

He is known as the king of tractors. And it’s a well-earned title indeed: Ludwig Streitberger of Ingolstadt (Bavaria) built Europe’s most powerful tractor, on the basis of a 1973 classic old-timer. The “Profi-Gigant,” or Pro Giant, is powered by a 650-hp MAN marine engine.

Record revenue in fiscal 2011

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

MAN SE closed fiscal 2011 with excellent business figures. The revenue had increased by 12 percent to a new record of €16.5 billion.

MAN wins “2012 Sports Marketing Award”

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

MAN has won the “2012 Sports Marketing Award” with its “the German Bundesliga travels MAN” sponsoring campaign.

“CHP Plant of the Year”

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

In two award-winning combined heat and power (CHP) plants from Kuntschar + Schlüter GmbH, MAN's gas-powered engines supply power and heat to meat processor Wilhelm Brandenburg in Dreieich south of Frankfurt am Main.

The lovable soul of Latin America

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Beautiful images and the dreams of unassuming people who simply want to be happy: This fusion forms the essence of the documentary Sob o Céu sobre Rodas (tr. On wheels under the heavens) directed by Ana Sardinha, which has been specially produced for MAN Latin America.

City buses with the latest exhaust technology

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

From January 2014 on, newly-registered commercial vehicles must comply with the Euro VI emissions standard. MAN is the first manufacturer to present the new engines for city buses.

Sustainable marine engines

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Next phase of the extensive, long-term HERCULES research program. The overall vision of the program is to achieve sustainable and safe energy production from marine power plants.

Master of the dream house

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Wolfgang Zink, haulier from Baden, delivers lifetime dreams—free to kerbside. The delivery of homes requires drivers with a lot of experience and first-class vehicles. And no risks as far as the fleet is concerned: 18 MAN vehicles—semi-trailer tractors, two-axle trucks and three-axle trucks with low-loader trailers.

100 years with diesel ships at the high seas

Thu, 01 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT

100 years ago, with the Danish ship Selandia a new era for international shipping began. As the first ocean-going ship, the M/S Selandia sailed on diesel instead of coal and marked the beginning of the end of steamships.