MAN - 'Engineering the Future'
MAN, short for ‘Maschinenfabrik Augsburg-Nürnberg’ is one of the world’s leading commercial vehicle and mechanical engineering groups.
MAN is a supplier of trucks, buses, vans, diesel engines, turbomachinery and special gear units and focuses on activities in the areas of
transportation and energy - market segments that offer long-term, global opportunities.
MAN’s business activities are grouped into two business areas: Commercial Vehicles, comprising MAN Truck & Bus and MAN Latin America,
and Power Engineering, featuring MAN Diesel & Turbo and Renk.
MAN’s divisions hold leading positions in their markets. With a headcount of more than 50,000 employees,
the Group operates in more than 180 countries. MAN Truck & Bus AG, which is based in Munich, Germany,
is the largest company in the MAN Group and one of Europe’s leading manufacturers of commercial vehicles.
MAN Truck & Bus has production facilities in three European countries, Russia, South Africa, India, and Turkey.
The company is a full-range provider of commercial vehicles from a gross vehicle weight of 3t through 250t.
Its products include vans, trucks, buses and coaches as well as diesel and gas engines for external customer applications.
To complement this, MAN Truck & Bus offers its customers an extensive range of services from a single source.
MAN History
MAN has written its own history of 250 years with the development from a small assembly plant to one of
the leading international suppliers of commercial vehicles.
Today, trucks and buses with the silver lion can be seen on roads across the globe.
MAN has had to overcome some major challenges on the road to international success.
Throughout it all, MAN Truck & Bus has continued to make a decisive contribution to the development of
passenger and goods transportation – a fine tradition, which will also continue into the next 100 years.
- 1758
- The ironworks plant Eusenhuette St. Antony was established at Oberhausen, Germany. This is where everything began for MAN.
- 1897
- Rudolf Diesel, a German inventor and a mechanical engineer invented the diesel engine.
MAN was the first commercial vehicle brand to adapt the diesel engine to its technology.
- 1915
- The first production of commercial vehicles starts in the form of a joint venture with the Swiss company Adolph Saurer AG.
- 1924
- World début: MAN presented the world’s first diesel engine vehicle with direct injection and an entirely new type of bus construction,
built on a low-frame chassis
- 1955
- Up until 1954 the buses and trucks were built in Nuremberg. MAN moved to its new and bigger plant in Munich due to increasing levels of production.
- 1971
- MAN took over the Büssing company and adopted the Braunschweig lion as MAN’s product logo.
- 2000
- MAN set new standards in the heavy-duty truck segment with the launch of TGA at the turn of the century.
- 2001
- MAN took over the premium bus brand NEOPLAN
- 2007
- MAN launches the TGX and TGS series and sets a new milestone in international transport solutions with the two new heavy-duty truck series.
The new models were awarded ‘Truck of the Year’.
- 2015
- 100 years since the production of the first MAN truck.
- 2016
- The D38 engine was named ‘Diesel of the Year 2016’ at Bauma.
- 2017
- MAN expanded its product line up by launching the new MAN TGE.
- 2018
- The MAN Lion’s City Bus was launched during the Bus Days in Munich
MAN’s business activities are grouped into two business areas: Commercial Vehicles, comprising MAN Truck & Bus and MAN Latin America, and Power Engineering, featuring MAN Diesel & Turbo and Renk.
MAN’s divisions hold leading positions in their markets. With a headcount of more than 50,000 employees, the Group operates in more than 180 countries. MAN Truck & Bus AG, which is based in Munich, Germany, is the largest company in the MAN Group and one of Europe’s leading manufacturers of commercial vehicles.
MAN Truck & Bus has production facilities in three European countries, Russia, South Africa, India, and Turkey. The company is a full-range provider of commercial vehicles from a gross vehicle weight of 3t through 250t. Its products include vans, trucks, buses and coaches as well as diesel and gas engines for external customer applications. To complement this, MAN Truck & Bus offers its customers an extensive range of services from a single source.
Today, trucks and buses with the silver lion can be seen on roads across the globe. MAN has had to overcome some major challenges on the road to international success. Throughout it all, MAN Truck & Bus has continued to make a decisive contribution to the development of passenger and goods transportation – a fine tradition, which will also continue into the next 100 years.
- 1758
- The ironworks plant Eusenhuette St. Antony was established at Oberhausen, Germany. This is where everything began for MAN.
- 1897
- Rudolf Diesel, a German inventor and a mechanical engineer invented the diesel engine.
MAN was the first commercial vehicle brand to adapt the diesel engine to its technology.
- 1915
- The first production of commercial vehicles starts in the form of a joint venture with the Swiss company Adolph Saurer AG.
- 1924
- World début: MAN presented the world’s first diesel engine vehicle with direct injection and an entirely new type of bus construction,
built on a low-frame chassis
- 1955
- Up until 1954 the buses and trucks were built in Nuremberg. MAN moved to its new and bigger plant in Munich due to increasing levels of production.
- 1971
- MAN took over the Büssing company and adopted the Braunschweig lion as MAN’s product logo.
- 2000
- MAN set new standards in the heavy-duty truck segment with the launch of TGA at the turn of the century.
- 2001
- MAN took over the premium bus brand NEOPLAN
- 2007
- MAN launches the TGX and TGS series and sets a new milestone in international transport solutions with the two new heavy-duty truck series.
The new models were awarded ‘Truck of the Year’.
- 2015
- 100 years since the production of the first MAN truck.
- 2016
- The D38 engine was named ‘Diesel of the Year 2016’ at Bauma.
- 2017
- MAN expanded its product line up by launching the new MAN TGE.
- 2018
- The MAN Lion’s City Bus was launched during the Bus Days in Munich
