13.06.2007 - MAN TURBO AG of Oberhausen is building a production and service shop in the Wujin High-Tech Industrial Zone in the Chinese city of Changzhou, approximately 200 km west of Shanghai. The investment earmarked for the company’s first manufacturing plant outside Europe is 15 million euros. Two halls covering a total area of around 10,000 square metres will be constructed among other facilities on a site totalling 50,000 square metres. It is here that around 200 employees will produce basic turbomachinery components and assemble them together with other components supplied from Europe to form complete machine units. The projected capacity will also include service facilities.

Construction work on the new plant has now officially started. Production is expected to commence in mid-2008.
Dr Martin Z. Wilderer (35) has been appointed managing director of the new company, which will trade as MAN TURBO (Changzhou) Co., Ltd.

“Creating this additional manufacturing capacity enables us to meet demands for a stronger local presence and thus to ensure our continued competitiveness in the region,” commented MAN TURBO board chairman Jürgen Maus, outlining the strategic approach. “We also want to achieve a significant increase in local service activities. All in all, we regard our involvement in China as part of a profitable interdependent relationship that helps us to strengthen our European technology locations at the same time.”

MAN TURBO is now one of the leading companies in the People’s Republic of China with its range of products. Machinery and plant are key components of air separation applications and in the basic industries in particular. The Chinese gas transportation market has also been penetrated successfully with deliveries for pipeline applications.

Business relations between MAN TURBO and China go back over 100 years. In fiscal 2006 the order intake for machinery and plant for delivery to the People’s Republic amounted to roughly 200 million euros. “The Chinese market thus makes a considerable contribution to the satisfactory growth of MAN TURBO,” Jürgen Maus stated.

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