MAN ES Wins German Sustainability Award

The German Sustainability Award is organised by the German Sustainability Award Foundation in cooperation with the DIHK (the German Federal Ministry for the Environment) and other partners.

The award is the most comprehensive, national sustainability competition with over 5,000 companies researched and assessed for its purposes. From this pool, 150 jurors from the fields of research, industry associations, consulting and civil society selected “pioneers of sustainability” in 100 sectors of the German economy. From the experts’ point of view, these companies are pioneers of sustainable transformation within the German economy

In its statement, the adjudicating jury emphasised the company’s “particularly effective, exemplary contributions to the transformation, thereby setting an example and sending the right signals to its industry and beyond.”

MAN Energy Solutions offers technologies for eliminating so-called ‘unavoidable residual emissions’, that is, CO₂ emissions that cannot easily be saved or replaced, including emissions from cement manufacture, and other heavy industry. Technology from MAN Energy Solutions makes it possible to separate and capture this CO₂ during the production process, stopping its escape into the atmosphere. MAN technology is also used in the decarbonisation of shipping, energy and heat generation, and in the chemical industry.

It is also developing large engines for ships and power plants that can run on synthetic fuels, such as methanol, ammonia and synthetic natural gas (SNG). Danish shipping company, A.P. Møller-Maersk, recently commissioned the world’s first container ship powered by MAN B&W engines and fuelled by green methanol. Currently more than 150 MAN methanol engines are ordered by customers. If all of these engines will run on green methanol, they have the potential to save a total of almost 12 million tonnes of CO₂ per year. 

Martin Oetjen, COO of MAN Energy Solutions, said: “We work for key global industries that contribute significantly to global CO₂ emissions, but are difficult to decarbonise. Our product portfolio and our new solutions enable us and our customers to have a significant impact on the global energy transition and thus the decarbonisation of the world.”