MAN Features
Press Newsletter March 2010
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Behind the scenes of the MAN AGM
- The MAN annual general meeting is a huge project in organizational terms, requiring months of preparation. Indeed, it all revolves around the people who own the company: the shareholders. A glimpse behind the scenes.
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MAN Turbo and MAN Diesel conquer Brazil
- With the new division MAN Latin America, the MAN Group has strengthened its position in the Latin American commercial vehicles market. But MAN Diesel and MAN Turbo are also doing well in South America. Brazil is one of their most important markets.
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Power plant engines and accessories for around Euro 300 million
- Grupo Bertin —a large international conglomerate from Brazil—awarded MAN Diesel a contract to supply the electro-mechanical equipment for six diesel power plants.
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Socket on the high seas
- Powered by 24 dual fuel engines from MAN Diesel, the world’s first of a total of four power station ships will go into service in summer 2010. These mobile power stations are converted freighters, which are capable of putting in wherever there is an demand for energy.
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Reaping the rays of Andalusia
- The world’s largest solar thermal power station complex is currently under construction in Spain. Andasol 1 through 3 will supply energy to half a million people. The high-performance turbine for Andasol 3, the third and most modern parabolic trough power station, is built by MAN Turbo in Oberhausen.
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“Setting a good example”
- Are human beings essentially calculating creatures, conforming to the pattern of homo oeconomicus and just concerned with their own advantage? Not at all, believes Matthias Sutter, Professor of Experimental Economics at the University of Innsbruck. Most people, he says, are as socially minded as their environment.
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Reading, resting and repairs
- Due to the driving ban on Sundays and public holidays, truck drivers must cope with many hours of waiting at rest areas far away from their families. How do they spend their time? An investigation.
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Test Driving in the Arctic Circle
- Every year between January and March, MAN’s Michael Pongratz ventures gingerly yet boldly out onto the ice. Braving sub-zero temperatures atop a frozen lake near the Arctic Circle, Pongratz tests vehicles and systems to determine their response to extreme winter conditions. An icy mission for both man and machine.
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