A diesel engine is an engine that burns diesel fuel to obtain a release of energy. It was invented by German inventor Rudolf Diesel in 1892, and in honor of the inventor, diesel is referred to by his surname Diesel, and the diesel engine is also known as the Diesel engine.
Diesel engine is widely used, in the relative core position of the industrial chain. In the past ten years of development, the diesel engine production industry formed a series of supporting enterprises, and forklift enterprises on a higher demand for diesel engines, after all, most of the forklifts are on the market will be diesel engine as a power. Today, we will take a look at the world’s most famous reliable engine manufacturers .
So , Which diesel Engine is the most reliable in today’s world ? Here are 19 brands you need to know .
1.DEUTZ
DEUTZ AG, headquartered in Cologne on the Rhine, Germany, is the oldest and world’s leading independent engine manufacturer in the world today. The first engine invented by Mr. Otto was a gas engine that burned gas, so DEUTZ has been working on gas engines for more than 140 years.
On September 13, 2012, the Swedish truck manufacturer Volvo Group completed the acquisition of DEUTZ’s shareholding and the company now has 4 engine plants in Germany, 22 subsidiaries, 18 service centers, 2 service bases and 14 offices worldwide, and more than 800 partners in 130 countries! The products can be used in construction machinery, agricultural machinery, underground equipment, vehicles, forklifts, compressors, generator sets and diesel engines of marine engines.
2.Germany MAN
The MAN Group, a Fortune 500 company, is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of diesel engines, trucks (MAN Commercial Vehicles AG is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of heavy-duty trucks) and buses and is headquartered in Munich, Germany.
The company’s engines are widely used in agricultural machinery, railway vehicles, marine power and special-purpose vehicles, etc. MAN is a leading European engineering group with about 62,000 employees in 120 countries working in five core areas: commercial vehicles, diesel engines and turbines, steam turbines and printing systems, with comprehensive capabilities to provide system solutions.
3.Cummins (USA)
American Cummins Engine Company was founded in 1919, headquartered in Columbus, Indiana, USA, mainly produces diesel engines and gas engines. Cummins company in the world’s leading diesel engine technology, has always been more than 200 horsepower diesel engine is the largest manufacturer and more than 50 horsepower diesel engine second manufacturer. Markets for its products include heavy-duty and light-duty trucks, recreational vehicles (RVs), light-duty automobiles and many industrial applications. The company serves its customers through its more than 600 distribution facilities and 7,200 dealer locations in more than 190 countries around the world.
Currently, Cummins has 55,000 employees worldwide and is ranked 154th in the U.S. Fortune 500. Cummins investment in China more than 140 million U.S. dollars, as China’s largest foreign investors in the engine industry, Cummins has ten joint ventures and wholly owned manufacturing enterprises in China, including Dongfeng Cummins production B, C and L series diesel engines, Chongqing Cummins production M, N and K series diesel engines.
4. British Perkins (Perkins)
Perkins Perkins in 1932 was one of the first engine companies in the world to produce engines.
The company’s diesel and natural gas-fueled engines are widely used in various industries, such as agricultural machinery, construction, automotive, construction machinery, industrial gensets, marine and material processing industries, because of their economy, reliability and durability.
5. VOLVO (Sweden)
A 120 years of history of multinational enterprises, a prestigious world top 500 Swedish companies, specializing in heavy machinery, trucks, cars, boats, manufacturing. From the output of the first heavy trucks to the world’s three luxury cars, one of the Volvo Cars, from 100,000 tons of tankers to the world-famous VOLVO-PENTA diesel engine, heavy power field is nowhere to be seen VOLVO-PENTA’s elegance. Its high performance indicators, high reliability, environmental protection, low noise, easy installation, good plateau adaptability and other characteristics in the application of the industry respected.
6. Japan’s Mitsubishi
Since the day it was founded in 1917, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries has continued to develop and create a wide range of diesel engines with capacities ranging from 0.5 hp to 56.400 hp to meet customers’ general and specialized uses. Mitsubishi diesel generator sets can work under severe environmental conditions, durability and reliability is recognized by the industry, its compact structure, low fuel consumption, long overhaul cycle. The products comply with ISO8528, IEC international standards and J.I.S. Japanese industrial standards.
However, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries has not been immune to the recent scandal of counterfeiting by Japanese companies, and various problems have been found in many of its companies. However, after all, the lean camel is bigger than the horse, although subjected to some impact, but its strong brand effect, still gives people strong confidence in the product.
7. Germany’s Mercedes-Benz (MTU)
MTU is the Diesel Propulsion Systems division of Daimler-Benz, the world’s leading manufacturer of heavy-duty diesel engines, which are used in ships, heavy vehicles, construction machinery and railway locomotives.
MTU’s predecessor developed the first internal combustion engine for high-speed vehicles as early as 1883, and designed and manufactured the world-famous Mercedes Benz in 1901. In 1909, the company switched from manufacturing aircraft engines to heavy-duty diesel engines, and in 1923 it began to produce high-performance diesel engines, making MTU the world’s most technologically advanced engine supplier with the largest engine power range.
At present, the majority of the world’s main battle tanks are using the MTU series of diesel engines, such as “Challenger” 2E, Leopard 2 series.
8. The United States Caterpiller
CATERPILLAR (Caterpillar) was founded in 1925, the main products include agricultural, construction and mining construction machinery and diesel engines, natural gas engines and gas turbine engines, CAT’s quality has been recognized by the world as number one, for many years by the U.S. Fortune magazine ranked first in the industrial and agricultural equipment manufacturing industry, in 2015 the Fortune 500 187th.
The price of the generator set produced by the company is 30% higher than the general, and it will show strong advantages for long time use.
9. Korea Doosan Daewoo
Ltd. was established in 1937, and its products have always represented the development level of Korea’s machinery industry, creating recognized achievements in the fields of diesel engines, excavators, vehicles, automatic machine tools, robots, etc.; in diesel engines, it cooperated with Australia to produce ship engines in 1958, and launched a series of heavy-duty diesel engines with MAN of Germany in 1975; Daewoo Europe Plant was established in 1990, Daewoo Heavy Industries Yantai was established in 1994, and Daewoo Heavy Industries, Inc. was established in the U.S. in 1996.
Daewoo diesel generator is widely used in national defense, aviation, vehicles, ships, construction machinery, generator sets, and its small size, light weight, strong resistance to sudden load, low noise, economic and reliable features are recognized by the world.
10. YANMAR (Japan)
“Yanmar is the world’s most recognized brand of diesel engines. Not only high quality products and quality service is recognized as a competitive advantage in the market, the Yanmar engine is also known for its green, committed to the development of the most advanced fuel-saving technology and the world.
Can see out, the domestic diesel engine in the popularity or less than these giants, but in a series of national policy intensive environment, in the domestic market under the promotion of strong demand, Chinese locomotive diesel engine industry as a whole to maintain steady and rapid growth. With the increase of industrial investment, technological breakthrough and scale accumulation, the industry will start to usher in a period of accelerated development in the foreseeable future. As we can see from the increment of forklifts in the following chart, this is a continuous and growing demand.
In the future, China’s diesel engine brand will certainly be as famous as “Made in China” all over the world, so at present, what are the more famous diesel engine manufacturing enterprises in China? The editor has gathered the following information to organize it, so let’s take a look!
11.Weichai (China)
Weichai, founded in 1946, is one of the earliest manufacturers of diesel engines in China, and is one of the automobile and equipment manufacturing groups with the strongest comprehensive strength in China. Weichai Group is the only company in China that has five business segments at the same time, namely, vehicle engine, powertrain, luxury yacht, auto parts and financial services, and is an international company operating across fields and industries.
Weichai first merged and acquired the Italian Faraday Group, the world’s largest luxury yacht manufacturer, and then signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Germany’s Kion Group, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of industrial forklifts and a global leader in hydraulic technology, to control the world’s high-end forklifts and high-end hydraulic core technology. Weichai currently has three listed companies: Weichai Power, Weichai Heavy Industries and Yaxing Bus. With the mission of “Green Power, International Weichai”, Weichai Group will strive to achieve a sales revenue of 200 billion yuan by the end of the 13th Five-Year Plan, and enter the world’s top 500 grand vision.
12.Yuchai(China Guangxi)
Guangxi Yuchai Machinery Group Co., Ltd. was founded in 1951, headquartered in Yulin, Guangxi, is China’s most complete and complete product spectrum of internal combustion engine manufacturing base. Yuchai is ranked 103rd among China’s 500 most valuable brands, with a brand value of 28.195 billion yuan. The annual sales volume of engines ranked first in the industry for five consecutive years. With Yuchai’s headquarters as the engine production base, Yuchai focuses on developing its main business of engine and actively extends its business upstream and downstream, eventually forming an integrated equipment manufacturing system of “parts – engine – terminal” to build a golden industrial chain.
In the field of engine research, the company has taken the lead in launching engines that meet the emission regulations of National 4, National 5 and Euro 6, leading the green revolution in the engine industry and continuously providing users with cost-effective green power and green machines. The company has more than 2,000 authorized patents, and a number of technologies have filled a number of gaps in China, and projects such as “key technology and industrialization of energy-saving and environment-friendly diesel engines” have won the second prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award for three times.
13.Shangchai (China Shanghai)
Ltd, formerly known as Shanghai Diesel Engine Factory, was founded in 1947 and is a large national high-tech enterprise engaged in the development and manufacture of engines, components and generator sets.
In the nearly 70 years of development, the company’s products are all over the world, and now has seven series of diesel and natural gas engines such as R, H, D, C, E, G, W, etc., with a power range of 50-1600kW, mainly used in construction machinery, trucks, buses, power generation equipment, ships, agricultural machinery and other fields. The company insists on taking customers as the center and relying on the “five vertical and seven horizontal” road network, and has built a sales and service support system consisting of 15 regions, 5 distribution centers, more than 300 core service stations and more than 2,000 2S merchants.
14.Tinchai (China Wuxi)
Wuxi Diesel Engine Plant of FAW Jiefang Automobile Co., Ltd. is located in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province, and is a wholly-owned subsidiary of China FAW Group Corporation. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of China First Automobile Group Corporation. It is the only company in the diesel engine industry that has mastered a number of key core technologies such as VCU, GPS, EGR, engine braking, etc. It is also the first company in China to successfully develop four-valve diesel engine, the first company to successfully develop electronically controlled common rail diesel engine and the first company to successfully develop and promote two-stage supercharged diesel engine.
The company has the most complete product system in China. There are 7 series of engine products, the displacement spans from 2 to 13 liters, the power covers 40 to 500 horsepower, with the characteristics of “fuel-efficient, environmental protection and reliable” and “considerate and thoughtful” service, it has become the power of choice for trucks, buses and off-road machinery. Our sales and service network covers the whole country, including more than 40 countries and regions in Europe and America, with a market share of more than 2 million units. There are 5 series and more than 200 varieties of modified vehicles, which are exported to Australia and other countries in bulk.
15.Sinotruk (China Shanghai)
Founded in 1956, CNHTC is the cradle of China’s heavy automobile industry. Since its reform and reorganization, SINOTRUK has always insisted on independent innovation, vigorously implemented the strategy of leading technology, and built up its core competitiveness with independent intellectual property rights. As one of the first batch of national enterprise technology centers in China, CNHTC Development Center has testing laboratories accredited by China National Laboratory Accreditation Committee, with all-round research and development and testing capabilities of vehicle, engine, parts and materials supply, and owns all kinds of processing, experimental, testing and other high precision and advanced equipment, engine, vehicle, parts and materials supply. The equipment for vibration and strength testing of components has reached the world advanced level.
The domestic advanced D10 and D12 diesel engines and T10 and T12 gas engines manufactured by CNHTC, and the internationally advanced MC05, MC07, MC11 and MC13 engines with Euro II-V emissions and power ranging from 140 to 560 hp are all manufactured by CNHTC. With obvious technology and market-leading advantages, CNHTC’s products sell well both at home and abroad.
15.Quanchai (China Quanjiao)
The company was founded in 1949 and is a modern enterprise group that integrates research and development, manufacturing, operation and investment, and is the largest four-cylinder diesel engine research and development and manufacturing enterprise in China.
Through continuous upgrading of product structure, the company’s diesel engine power covers 15 to 380 hp, with its good product quality and perfect after-sales service, has become the power of choice for automobiles, forklifts, agricultural equipment, construction machinery, generating sets, etc., product sales and service network covers the country, Southeast Asia, Europe and other countries and regions, the product market share of more than 3 million units.
Through continuous technical transformation and market expansion, the company has formed two diesel engine R&D and manufacturing bases, namely, Quanchai Power and Tianli Power, with an annual output of 600,000 sets of multi-cylinder diesel.
16.Leiwo (China Tianjin)
Formerly known as Tianjin Leiwo Power Co., Ltd, now referred to as Leiwo Engine) is a modern diesel engine manufacturing enterprise integrating research and development, manufacturing, sales and service. The products are widely used in agricultural equipment, generator sets, marine auxiliary engines, automobiles, engineering machinery and other fields, based on domestic and overseas, and are sold to more than 100 countries and regions in Europe, the Middle East, South America, Africa and so on.
The company has a wide range of products, including 1000/1100 series for off-road and B/D series for road, with power ranging from 28 to 202kW, forming a multi-specification product pattern with strong power, compact structure, reliability and durability, low noise, low fuel consumption and other advantages.
17.Yunnei (China Yunnan)
Kunming Yunnei Power Co., Ltd. was established in 1999, with Yunnan Internal Combustion Engine Factory as the sole sponsor. The company mainly produces 490 and 495 series diesel engines and natural gas engines, and will build a national natural gas engine development base with the National Gas Vehicle Engineering Technology Research Center as the platform.
In 2012, the company introduced foreign advanced key equipment for casting, machining and assembly, as well as software development and testing equipment, and built a leading R&D and production base for Shangchai and Chengchai in China.
18. Emei (China Changzhou)
Jiangsu Emei Diesel Engine Co., Ltd. is located in Changzhou, Jiangsu Province, which is the main production base of small and medium power diesel engines in China. It is mainly engaged in the development, design, production, sales and related import and export trade of engines and parts.
The company has strong product development and manufacturing capabilities, including single-cylinder series diesel engine main products are 1105, 1110, 1115, JR170,JR180,ZS1125 etc. and other 12 varieties of more than 100 models, the power of 12 horsepower to 34 horsepower, the annual production capacity of 40. The main products of Diesel Generator Set are DG3LEM,DG6LEM,DG7250LEM,DG8250LE,DG10000LE,DG4LNE,DG8250LNE etc. 24 varieties and more than 50models, with power ranging from 2kw to 20 kw. Horsepower, with an annual capacity of 300,000 units.
19.New Wood (China Zhejiang)
New Wood Ltd. is a small bore multi-cylinder diesel engine manufacturer integrating research and development and manufacturing, product serialization, production specialization and management standardization, a national key high-tech enterprise, one of the top 500 enterprises in China machinery, with a provincial-level technology research center and a national postdoctoral scientific research station, and the trademark of “Xin Chai”. The company is a “Zhejiang Province Famous Trademark”. There are more than 1,500 employees, including more than 400 professional technicians, with an annual output of 150,000 sets of diesel engine production capacity.
The company now has six series of N85, 90, 92, 95, 98, 105 (108) more than 30 models of more than 200 kinds of deformation products, mainly supporting internal combustion forklifts, small construction machinery, tractors, combine harvester, light vehicles, small generator sets, automobile air conditioning units and so on. The company has passed the certification of ISO9001 standard and National Automobile Quality Supervision and Inspection Center. “Xin Chai” brand high-speed diesel engine is “Zhejiang Famous Brand Product”. The company’s customers are located in more than 20 provinces, cities and autonomous regions in China, and it has established long-term and stable cooperative relationship with more than 60 enterprises.
Conclusion
No matter what type of diesel you want to buy, quality and reliable suppliers are your first choice. The 19 suppliers listed above are all famous brands in the world with the best after-sales service and quality of their type.
