Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Marine Machinery & Equipment (MHI-MME), a Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) Group company based in Nagasaki, has concluded a licensing agreement giving Mitsui E&S Machinery, a Mitsui E&S Holdings Group company, rights to manufacture and sell its MET turbochargers.
The MET lineup comprises exhaust gas type turbochargers engineered for use with diesel engines. The agreement allows Mitsui E&S Machinery to manufacture in-house all models in the MET-MB and MET-MBII series of turbochargers used in two-stroke engines. Production will get underway with three models: MET-66MBII, MET-42MBII and MET-42MB. Plans call for the first unit to be completed early in 2023, with production to be expanded to other models when deemed appropriate.
Mitsui E&S Machinery has been manufacturing a single brand of large marine diesel engines ever since concluding a technical tie-up with B&W of Denmark (now MAN Energy Solutions) in 1926. In 2021 the company reached cumulative production of 110m hp, with more than 7,000 units manufactured to date. These statistics make Mitsui E&S Machinery Japan’s foremost engine manufacturer and a leader in the industry.
MHI-MME began marketing water-cooled turbochargers in the 1950s, and in 1965 the company developed the first non-water-cooled turbocharger, precursor of the MET series. Since then, the lineup has been expanded to include numerous high-efficiency large-capacity models. Today, more than 39,000 MET units have been sold, and the company says it accounts for a near 40% share of the global market for turbochargers for two-stroke marine engines.
After concluding the new licensing agreement, MHI-MME aims to strengthen its ties with Mitsui E&S Machinery in a quest to further develop business in marine engines and turbochargers for the needs of tomorrow taking into account of global warming issues.
