OREANDA-NEWS. September 29, 2008. The CJSC MC BMZ (Bryansk Engineering Plant) and MAN Diesel signed a ten-year license agreement in Copenhagen for production of large low-speed two-stroke marine diesels, reported the press-centre of BMZ.

The document is the next step in license relations between BMZ and MAN Diesel established in 1959.

The ceremony was attended by the CJSC MC BMZ director Anatoly Zadorozhny, diesel production director Leonid Kaikov, deputy chief designer for diesel production Evgeny Dmitrievsky, and a CJSC Transmashholding representative, Valery Lukashov.

MAN Diesel was represented by executive vice president Peter Sunn Pedersen, senior vice president Thomas Knudsen, senior vice president Klaus Engberg, senior vice president for R&D Seren Jansen, and licensing department chief Bo Khaarmak.

Today MAN Diesel is the world largest manufacturer of low-speed diesels with 28 license holders in 11 countries. Around 84% of the type engines have the MAN design.

Marine diesels on the MAN Diesel license (earlier Burmeister & Wain) were launched in production at the Bryansk Engineering Plant in 1961. For all these years - the company staff says - the professionals have been engaged in a kind dialogue full of mutual understanding.

During the years of cooperation with MAN Diesel, the BMZ has manufactured over 1,000 of different generation engines totaling 6.8 million kW of power. The engines have been shipped both to Russian and foreign shipyards. The BMZ engines propel Russia's transport fleet, as well as vessels navigating under flags of over 30 countries.

The BMZ is consistently upgrading production launching state-of-the-art engines developed by MAN Diesel.

The BMZ today is manufacturing MC family low-speed engines, which have been very popular with ship owners and have been leading the world market since early 1980s, as well as new small MC-C type diesels. The Russian company was one of the first MAN B&W license holders to productionize S50МС-C family engines.

Under the new agreement the BMZ can manufacture high-power two-stroke marine diesels within ten years to sell them on the license territory (Russia), other countries (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldavia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Ukraine, Cuba), as well as on extraterritorial land based on a corresponding permit by MAN Diesel.