Mechanical engineering Kiel

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MaK building in Kiel, April 2017.

The Maschinenbau Kiel ( MaK ) was a traditional manufacturer of marine diesel engines , diesel locomotives , diesel railcar and track vehicles , which was split in the 1990s into several individual companies. After the takeover of the marine engines division by Caterpillar Inc. into the wholly-owned subsidiary Caterpillar Motoren GmbH & Co.KG, Caterpillar determines with around 80% the present face of the former MaK, which is still popularly referred to as such and a major employer in of the Kiel region .

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The company was founded on May 25, 1948 as a stock corporation . It comprised several operations of the former Deutsche Werke AG , which had been operating under the name Holsteinische Maschinenbau AG (Holmag) since 1945 . After a lengthy legal dispute with MAN , the abbreviation was changed from MAK to MaK in 1954 . In the 1950s and 1960s, MaK manufactured the so-called MaK rod locomotives , which replaced the steam locomotives on numerous private railways in Germany .

In 1959, the company was after a first crisis of the Hugo Stinnes GmbH belonging Bremer Atlas GmbH taken over and into a GmbH converted. In 1964, MaK and its parent company were taken over by Krupp and traded as Atlas-MaK Maschinenbau GmbH . As a result of a restructuring in 1971, it then traded as Krupp-MaK Maschinenbau GmbH . In the 1970s, after a barracks were demolished by Gerkan, Marg & Partner from Hamburg, a new administration building was built for Krupp MaK. This was ready for occupancy in 1980.

In 1992, the production of locomotives was merged with other companies in the group as Krupp Locomotives , sold to Siemens in 1994 and renamed Siemens Rail Vehicle Technology (SFT) . This subsidiary was sold by Siemens to Vossloh  AG on October 1, 1998 , renamed Vossloh Rail Vehicle Technology (VSFT) and has been operating as Vossloh Locomotives GmbH since April 23, 2004 . The Vossloh locomotives from Kiel have the abbreviation MaK in the vehicle type designation. In 2017, the complete move from the main Friedrichsort plant to a new building on the former Hell site in Kiel-Suchsdorf took place .

In 1990 the construction of tanks was handed over to Rheinmetall-Landsysteme . The former system technology is now part of Rheinmetall . All that remained in Kiel was the construction of prototypes , which found a new home with the development and the company headquarters on the former Hell site in Kiel-Suchsdorf .

The division of marine diesel engines made by MaK or the predecessor companies since 1920, was founded in 1997 by Caterpillar Motoren GmbH & Co. KG , a 100% owned subsidiary of Caterpillar Inc. , acquired. The production of medium-speed machines with the MaK logo has been taking place since then with increasing sales and quantities. A prestigious project of recent times was the equipment of seven cruise ships of the Sphinx class with four engines of the type MaK 9M43C. The ships were put into service between April 2007 and March 2013 with media coverage.

1983 was MaK DATA SYSTEM as a profit center of Krupp MaK for external IT - services . Since 1995 MaK DATA SYSTEM Kiel GmbH has belonged to the internationally active system house Consist International World Group as an independent company . The IT specialist for integration and individual solutions MaK DATA SYSTEM continued the acronym MaK in its company name and company logo. MaK DATA SYSTEM has been using the name Consist Software Solutions GmbH since January 2008 and, after 13 years, shows that the company name is part of the Consist World Group.

In 2006 the foundry of the Caterpillar engine works and the former MaK foundry was sold to SHW Casting Technologies GmbH , a foundry group, and then operated under the name Gießerei Kiel GmbH (GK). After the SHW-CT group became insolvent, the Kiel operations were largely transferred to Caterpillar Castings Kiel GmbH (CCK) in the summer of 2013 . CCK currently (May 2014) employs around 100 people.

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Locomotives

shipbuilding

  • AIDAdiva , type ship of the Sphinx class (four MaK-M43C engines)

  • Queen Elizabeth (six MaK-M43C engines)

  • Uranus rescue tug (four MaK-M32C engines)

See also

Web links

Commons : Locomotives of the MaK  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Spielvogel, Georg Schöneich, Gerd: Fortress and barracks in Friedrichsort . Krausdruck, 2001, p. 91 ( worldcat.org [accessed May 21, 2020]).
  2. ↑ Frank Binder: First engine block with CCK symbol . In: Daily port report of August 13, 2013, p. 4
  3. ↑ Article from May 5, 2014 in AKTIV im Norden