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Marine

Diesel Propulsion:

Where Less Is More

Alstom Diesel engines and its three well-regarded brands — Mirrlees Blackstone, Paxman and Ruston — were recently bought by MAN B&W.

Several recent deals have confirmed the continuing trend towards a consolidation of resources in the realm of marine propulsion equipment. The trend, to regular followers of the industry, is hardly a new development.

However, a spate of recent new deals and consumma- tions has brought the topic to the forefront again.

As reported in the June 2000 edition of Maritime

Reporter & Engineering News, the emergence of Rolls

Royce as a major force in the field of marine propusion is solidified with a collection of brand name equipment suppliers. The U.K. based organization has a true glob- al reach, and is a threatening force to dominate any market, which it chooses to enter.

Mid last month, also saw big announcements from two of the world's premier diesel engine manufactur- ers, MAN B&W and Wartsila NSD.

MAN B&W Diesel AG of Augsburg, Germany for- mally completed the acquisition of ALSTOM's Diesel engine business, which was immediately renamed

MAN B&W Diesel Ltd with its headquar- ters in Stockport, Cheshire. "We welcome the new British members of the MAN B&W Diesel team to the

MAN family," said Dr. Hans-J. Schulte, president of MAN B&W Diesel. "We will strengthen their technical and brand iden- tities, thus bringing a wider range of prod- ucts into a wider range of markets and placing more resources at the disposal and to the benefit of our customers."

The U.K. company manufactures diesel engines under the long established Mir- rlees Blackstone, Ruston and Paxman brand names, which will continue to be strongly promoted. The existing engine programs under these brand names will also continue and will be complementary to the extensive range of engines in the power bracket between 500 and 68,640 kW being designed and produced by the

MAN B&W Diesel Group at its other locations in Europe. Mirrlees Blackstone 500 - 600 rpm medium-speed engines find application in the base load power gener- ation in markets up to 15 MW per unit.

Ruston 750 - 1,000 rpm medium-speed engines up to 9 MW are widely used in power generation, marine propulsion and rail traction applications and it is the lead- ing brand in engines for large high-speed

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CHAINS ^ORTELBOER ferries. Paxman high-speed engines are well known in applications demanding high power density engines up to 4 MW including power generation, high-speed marine and high-speed rail traction applications. The

U.K. company also manufactures Diesel engine gover- nors and control systems through its Regulateurs

Europa subsidiary and has a high quality iron foundry in Stamford.

MAN B&W Diesel AG is a market leader in marine propulsion engines for commercial shipping. The

MAN B&W Diesel Group employs some 6,000 people world-wide and has an annual business volume of $1.1 billion. The acquisition will bring an additional work- force of approximately 1,500 and annual sales of some $200 million. Wartsila NSD also made headlines when it announced that it and the TI Group, on behalf of John

Crane-Lips, signed of a co-operation agreement to develop, market and supply total marine propulsion power systems to the shipbuilding industry. Agreement has also been reached for TI Group to purchase Wiirt- sila NSD's propeller production and related servicing business at Rubbestadneset, Norway, with approxi-

Tel.: +31 (0)10 429 2222 mately ^ Fax:+31 (0)10 429 6459 1 2 0 [email protected] employees www.wortelboer.n transferring from

Wartsila NSD Norway to John Crane-Lips. "This agreement is an impor- tant milestone for Wartsila NSD in developing our position as The Ship

Power Supplier," said Ole Johansson, pres- ident and CEO of Wartsila NSD. "The require- ment for integrated solutions is increasing within the industry and Wartsila NSD is well placed to respond to that need." Wartsila NSD has a substantial share of the marine engine market and John Crane-Lips has a lead- ing position in the market for integrated propulsion systems, including propellers, waterjets, thrusters, shaft seals and bearings. Under the brand name, Wart- sila-Lips, customers will be offered total marine (Continued on page 54)

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