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MAN Diesel & Turbo’s New Test Center

Inauguration of one of Europe’s most advanced, eco-friendly Test Centers for diesel engines

By Peter Pospiech

MAN-Chief Dr. Uwe Lauber, who and offshore installations, and today quirements with regard to reliability and ready-to-install product direct to the har- heads the company since the beginning some 150 employees are working here. performance in extreme conditions.” bor area in Frederikshavn (in one piece of this year, came to Frederikshavn, ”Depending on the market situation we Dr. Lauber said, in regards to the aim up to 200 tons) and afterwards transport-

Denmark, to open the new test center for will increase our workforce,” said Poul of the test center: ”Presently we are only ed direct to the shipyard. Also the incli- diesel engines. The new diesel engine Knudsgaard, Head of PrimeServ Four- mounting the 32- & 35-bore engines as- nation bench tests are only possible here testing facility is strategically- located at Stroke Denmark. sembled in Augsburg on a baseframe to- in this new facility.” the northern tip of Denmark, and vessels Dr. Lauber said ”We now have one of gether with a generator (both baseframe ”Soon we also will start with the pro- of different sizes can reach the MAN Europe’s most advanced maritime test and generator is delivered direct from duction of our brand new MAN 175D

Test and Service Center which courtesy centers with, for example, an inclination sub supplier to Frederikshavn) in order high speed engine, introduced to the of a direct access to the water. test bench, which can tilt a generator set to make a complete generator set that public at the last SMM show in Ham-

In recent years MAN Diesel & Turbo weighing 200 metric tons to an angle of is then tested here. Complete GenSet’s burg, here at the Frederikshavn plant,”

Frederikshavn has expanded and mod- 25 degrees while running. These inclina- could not and cannot be tested in Augs- said Dr. Matthias Schlipf, Project Man- ernized its Test Center for diesel engines tion tests are particularly relevant for the burg. When performing the full GenSet ager of MAN 175D, during the inaugu- and generator sets for ships, power plants offshore sector, which has stringent re- test in Frederikshavn we can deliver the ration event.

MAN-Chief

Dr. Uwe Lauber ”We now have one of

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