Colleagues at the Deggendorf site lead the world when it comes to building highly complex reactor systems.

Methanol synthesis in Chile

But reactors built in Deggendorf are used in much more spectacular projects. Among other things, MAN Deggendorf supplied the methanol synthesis reactor for the ‘Haru Oni’ e-fuel demonstration plant near the city of Punta Arenas in Southern Chile, which produces climate-neutral e-gasoline on behalf of Porsche AG. As a first step, the plant is employing wind power to make hydrogen, which is turned into methanol and finally e-gasoline.

Fusion energy in France

Specialists from Deggendorf are also involved in ITER, one of the most complex science and technology projects of all time. In Cadarache in the South of France, future energy generation will one day be revolutionized by means of a fusion reactor. MAN Deggendorf is involved in building the facility’s centerpiece, the cryostat. The scale is vast: when fully assembled, the cryostat will be 30 meters high, weigh 3,850 metric tons and have a volume of 16,000 square meters. It is made up of 54 individual elements, which are being assembled and welded by 40 MAN experts – a process that will take 10 years in total. The work being done by the MAN specialists demands unparalleled accuracy: “We are working with the precision of a clockmaker on components weighing thousands of metric tons,” says MAN Project Manager Andreas Binni. Which is why his people are constantly refining their assembly strategy and welding techniques as time goes by.

Head of Site Norbert Anger is rightly proud of his workforce: “Our employees possess valuable and unique expertise in the process engineering and assembly of highly complex reactor systems. Our customers, who come from a wide variety of industries, have been relying on our outstanding skills for decades.”