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MAN AG
Type Public (ISIN: DE0005937007, FWB: EDF1)
Founded 1758
Headquarters Munich, Germany Flag of Germany manufacturing facilities in the Ruhr area, Augsburg and outside Germany
Key people Håkan Samuelsson, President and CEO
Industry Manufacturing
Products Trucks, buses, diesel and other engines, turbomachines, industrial services
Revenue € 13 billion (Dec 2006)
Employees 50,000 (Dec 2006)
Slogan Engineering the Future
Website www.MAN.eu

MAN AG (German: Maschinenfabrik Augsburg-Nürnberg AG, ISIN: DE0005937007) is a German transportation company.

The MAN Group is mostly known for producing buses and trucks also big diesel engines for oceangoing ships though the group is primarily involved in engineering activities.[citation needed]

MAN specializes in:

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In 1898 the Maschinenbau-AG Nürnberg (founded in 1841) and the Maschinenfabrik Augsburg AG (founded in 1840) merged to become the Vereinigte Maschinenfabrik Augsburg und Maschinenbaugesellschaft Nürnberg A.G., Augsburg. The company was renamed in 1908 to Maschinenfabrik Augsburg-Nürnberg AG, Augsburg (M.A.N.). From 1894 to 1987, Rudolf Diesel developed diesel engine technology together with engineers of MAN in the Augsburg plant of MAN.

In 1924, the company showed a diesel truck at the Berlin Motor Show, which was purchased in numbers by the Bavarian Post Office.[1]

During the 1930s, MAN marine diesels were licence-produced in the U.S. and installed in fleet submarines, were they proved troublesome and unpopular in the Pacific War.[2]

Today, MAN is one of Europe's leading manufacturers of engineering equipment and vehicles. In 2006, its 50,000 employees generated annual sales of around €13 billion in 120 different countries. The company has joint ventures and other cooperations with local companies in India, Poland, Turkey, and the United States.

MAN is listed on the DAX and is well respected[attribution needed] in the field of transport engineering, having won numerous prizes. The latest ones achieved were in 2007 with the title "Truck of the year" and 2006 "coach of the year".[citation needed]

On September 18, 2006, MAN made a €10.3 billion offer for a takeover of Scania AB, one of the leading truck and bus companies in Sweden. MAN AG bought 15.6% of the voting shares in Scania AB. Volkswagen AG, Scania's largest shareholder, acquired a stake of 20% of MAN, and has since raised that stake to 29%. Together MAN and VW owned 52% of the Scania shares. It is expected that a combined MAN-Scania will also absorb Volkswagen's Brazilian heavy truck operations.

In 2008 MAN will celebrate the 250th anniversary of the company with a gala event in Munich, exibitions in Munich and Oberhausen. One highlight should be an Oldtimer Truck Convoy on a historical route from Nuremberg over Augsburg to Munich.

This logo is on the front of all MAN trucks and buses. The lion comes from Büssing AG, a company that MAN acquired in 1971.
This logo is on the front of all MAN trucks and buses. The lion comes from Büssing AG, a company that MAN acquired in 1971.
  • MAN Nutzfahrzeuge AG [1] (roughly 50% of overall sales; 88% of division sales come from European market)
Commercial vehicles: trucks (61% of group sales), aftermarket parts and service (18%), buses (14%), engines and components (7%)
2-stroke and 4-stroke diesel and gasoline engines: large marine and stationary diesel engines, engines for vehicles, industrial applications, power stations, yachts, passenger ships, ships, and work-boats (tankers, tugboats, icebreakers), railways.
Turbomachines: compressors and turbines for process industry and power generation worldwide; used in oil & natural gas, refinery, chemical & petrochemical, fertilizers, industrial gases, iron & steel processing and mining, power generation applications.
Industrial services: projecting, delivery, assembly, including steel-based structures
MAN low cabin waste collection truck
MAN low cabin waste collection truck
MAN Lion's coach
MAN Lion's coach
MAN CNG City bus in Bangkok (Out-of-Service)
MAN CNG City bus in Bangkok (Out-of-Service)
A container-ship with a MAN B&W Diesel engine
A container-ship with a MAN B&W Diesel engine

Main article: MAN AG Buses
  • Lion's City city/interurban bus
  • Lion's Classic city/interurban bus
  • Lion's Regio interurban bus
  • Americana city bus
  • NM 223/283
  • NL/ÜL 313/363 F (LF)
  • NL 202/232 (LF)
  • NL 262 R
  • NG 263/313/363 F (LF)
  • ND 243 F
  • 10.225 FOCL midi coach
  • 11.190 HOCL midi (LF)
  • 12.220 HOCL
  • 14.280 HOCL
  • 12.220 HOCL-NL
  • 14.220 HOCL-NL
  • 16.200
  • 18.220/ 260/ 280 HOCL-SL
  • 18.220/ 260/ 280/ 310/ 360 HOCL-SÜ
  • 18.220/ 260/ 310 HOCL-NL (LF)
  • 18.260/ 310/ 360/ 410/ 460 HOCL
  • 24.310/ 360/ 410/ 460 HOCLN
  • 28.310 HGOCL


MAN EDA concept is examining the stop-start automatic system, the requirement-specific electric drive for secondary units, the implementation of the clutch function, the synchronisation of gear changes with the aid of an electrodynamic moving-off element (EDA) and the booster function for extra power.

Two distribution vehicles with parallel hybrid drives are currently being tested: one vehicle features a starter-alternator (MAN TGL OPTISTRANG) integrated in the clutch housing, the other vehicle, an MAN TGL EDA, is equipped with an electrodynamic moving-off element (EDA) developed together with ZF Friedrichshafen.

  1. ^ Great Trucks
  2. ^ Blair, Clay, Jr. Silent Victory (Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1975).

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