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16 November 2007 - MAN Diesel SE has won €33m ($48m) order to supply eight diesel engines to a 148 MW power plant in Brazil. The plant is one of the largest the company has sold into the South American power market.
It is anticipated that the 18V48/60 type diesel engines will be delivered to Energética Camaçari Muricy I.S.A. in mid-2008.
The power plant, which is being built in collaboration with Danish partner BWSC A/S in an industrial part of the city of Salvador, should be connected to the grid six months later. The plant is a standby power plant and is intended to cover supply shortfalls on the Brazilian energy grid.
MAN Diesel's power plants business unit also received a further order for two units of its PGI (performance gas injection) gas engine from Argentinian energy comapany PAMPA is buying two 18V32/40PGI type gas engines.
This order is of great importance to MAN Diesel as it will serve as a significant reference in South America for this environmentally-friendly gas engine that functions along the lines of the PGI process.
Dr.-Ing. Stefan Spindler, executive board member, believes that MAN Diesel's strategy of growth in this sector is the right one: "It is our declared goal to increase our share of the world market in decentralized power plants to 30 per cent by the year 2010. These two orders from South America are crucial for achieving this ambitious goal."
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