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Congratulations “Mr. Diesel”

Ole Grøne, a ubiquitous figure at MAN D&T, turned 70 years old on the April 26 and celebrated his 40th year jubilee with MAN D&T on May 1, 2016.

Ole Grøne, studied Chemical Engineering at the Technical University of

Denmark and joined the Burmeister & Wain Company in 1976. From being a Manager of the Marine Installation Department he made his way through different stations at MAN D&T up to his today’s position of being the Se- nior Vice President of Two Stroke Engine Sales and Promotion.

The name “Mr. Diesel” first began to be used in connection with Ole Grøne a number of years ago by journalists and shipowners and has since become a common nickname for him. Thus, it is not a name MAN Diesel&Turbo has given him but, rather, one earned from industry. Peter Pospiech had the chance to catch up with Mr. Diesel after the celebrations.

WHERE DO YOU FIND THE MOTI- WHAT DO YOU CONSIDER AS WHICH PERSONALITY WOULD ALIZE (IF YOU WOULD HAVE

VATION FOR YOUR WORK? YOUR GREATEST ACHIEVEMENT? YOU LIKE TO MEET ONE DAY? ACCESS TO AN UNLIMITED BUD-

Customer relations are important for Two things stand out: One was the There are so many interesting person- GET)?

me. Communicating our technology start of understanding environmental alities in the world with whom I feel to Within our ? eld of business it will be while at the same time listening to the affairs in the form of the need for con- share interests, so I will refrain from a developing a combustion process that customer requirements in support of trol of NOx, SOx and CO2 in our house pointing to a single individual. maintain or even increase the high die- their business is motivating in a creative and these technologies for such would sel ef? ciency with much reduced NOx house as ours. be the main development drivers. The WHICH OCCURRENCE/INCIDENT emission.

early development of marine SCR sys- HAD PARTICULARLY IMPRESSED

WHICH LIFE EXPERIENCE HAS tems on two stroke engines was the YOU MOST? WHERE DO YOU SEE THE GREAT-

HAD THE GREATEST INFLUENCE start. It has been the growing size of ships EST CHALLENGES FOR YOUR IN-

FOR THE WORK WHAT YOU ARE The other one, and on the same token, and the development of ? ying, including DUSTRY?

DOING NOW? was the energy saving coming from the the space programs. On the political side Now, as already for some time the

I cannot point to any single experience, shift from steam engines to diesel en- it was the events leading to the uni? ca- greatest challenges – and opportuni- but as long as I can remember, I have al- gines, latest in LNG carriers and even tion of Germany. ties – are in developing emission con- ways felt a drive to see and work world- as dual fuel ME-GI engines in ocean trol systems that both are affordable, wide. What I do now and have done for shipping. WHICH BUSINESS IDEA/CON- economical to use and as reliable as the years is a perfect match to that. CEPT WOULD YOU LIKE TO RE- engines.

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