Engine manufacturer MAN B&W reaches output milestone

With around 8,000 MC engines having been ordered and delivered since the introduction of the first Japanese-built 6L35MC in 1982, the historical output figure of 100,000,000 kW has now been reached with MAN B&W?s range of low-speed two-stroke engines. Described by MAN B&W Diesel A/S executive vice president, Peter Sunn Pedersen, as an “unsurpassed engineering success” the engines have been sold throughout the world to power all types of vessels from large ocean-going container ships to small local coastal vessels.

Now built in Denmark and by MAN B&W?s licensees worldwide, the MC engine range comprises 26 marine engines, from the 4S26MC through to what is claimed to be the world?s most powerful diesel engines, the 14K98MC, which has an output of 80,080 kW.

Another milestone, 2004 also sees the centenary of the first ever produced B&W commercial diesel engine ? a single cylinder four-stroke with an output of 40 HP, which is now on display at the company?s museum in Copenhagen.