Last month the board of MAN Diesel & Turbo approved the company’s take-over of Kappel propeller. The deal included designs, software, and intellectual property, together with continued co-operation with Mr. Jens Julius Kappel.

New fuel-saving and energy-efficient propulsion opportunities are available from the MAN Alpha propeller programme, which now fully integrates the Kappel tip fin propeller blade designs for both controllable pitch propellers and fixed pitch propellers.

The original contract was signed in Copenhagen in February by JJ Kappel and Torben Johansen, on behalf of MAN Diesel & Turbo.  JJ Kappel said after the contract signing: “We have had a good co-operation with MAN Diesel & Turbo for almost 10 years, and our joint projects have gone well. I hope that MAN will get the most out of the Kappel technology. Our co-operation does not end here – it will in fact become more intense”.  

Past co-operation
The co-operation between Kappel and MAN Diesel & Turbo officially started in 2003, when 100 years of MAN Alpha CP Propeller production was celebrated in Frederikshavn. Shortly after that in March 2004, MAN Diesel & Turbo was awarded the contract of supplying newly-designed high-efficiency Kappel CP Propeller blades as part of Scandlines’ extensive refurbishment of the ferries ‘Prins Joachim’ and ‘Kronprins Frederik’. This was later followed by a successful Kappel upgrading of an additional four Scandlines vessels, thus proving the soundness of the concept.