MAN Turbo

The MAN Turbo AG was a subsidiary of the MAN Group, which specialized in the construction of turbomachinery (compressors, gas turbines, steam turbines). It went on through a merger with MAN Diesel SE, MAN Diesel & Turbo SE January 1, 2010.

The headquarters of MAN Turbo was Oberhausen, in addition, there were production sites in Berlin, Hamburg, Zurich ( Switzerland ), in Schio (Italy) and since the end of 2008 in Changzhou (China).

The product range included the development, design, construction, testing, packaging, delivery and commissioning of compressors ( axial, centrifugal, screw ) with a funding of up to 1.4 million m³ / h and a final pressure up to 130 bar, of expanders ( inlet temperatures up to 760 ° C and outputs up to 30 MW ), steam turbines ( inlet temperatures up to 570 ° C and Capacity from 1,5 to 160 MW ) and gas turbines ( power of 6 MW to 26 MW).

Overall, the MAN Turbo 3,257 staff employed worldwide in 2006, with a turnover of 908 million euros (2004: 2,476 employees with a turnover of EUR 694 million). Orders came in 2006 at 1,498 million euros (2005: 850 million euros ).

History

Emerging from the former Gutehoffnungshütte ( GHH ) in Oberhausen, MAN Turbo looked back on a 200 -year history. Already in 1814 the first steam engines were built GHH, 1904, the first GHH steam turbine as a generator drive engine with 1,500 kW.

The MAN Turbo was founded in the former division " turbomachinery " MAN GHH Sterkrade.

In 1996, the Borsig - Mechanical Engineering ( Berlin ) was taken and connected to the MAN GHH Sterkrade to MAN GHH Borsig GmbH turbomachinery.

2000, the Swiss Sulzer Turbo was (which in 1969 was in turn arose from the acquisition of the company Escher Wyss AG by the Sulzer Corporation ) acquired and the company network MAN Turbo AG machines formed. Mid- October 2004 was the MAN Turbo machinery officially the new, long time in the usual parlance called MAN Turbo. In January 2006, the steam turbine activities of ThyssenKrupp subsidiary B V Industrietechnik, formerly taken Blohm Voss, Hamburg.

On 14 July 2009 the merger with MAN Diesel MAN Group to the new field of power engineering ( power plants) was announced on January 1, 2010. The merger was ( retroactively as of January 1 ) completed on 26 March 2010 with the entry of MAN Diesel & Turbo SE in the commercial register of Augsburg.