industrial engineering and manufacturing founded 1834 headquarters winterthur switzerland key people thomas dittrich ceo ad interim peter loescher chairman products pumps chemical industry thermal turbomachinery revenue 3.16 billion 1 chf 2014 number of employees 15 500 website www.sulzer.com sulzer headquarter in winterthur sulzer ltd. is a swiss industrial engineering and manufacturing firm founded by salomon sulzer bernet in 1775 and established as sulzer brothers ltd. gebr der sulzer in 1834 in winterthur switzerland . today it is a publicly traded company with international subsidiaries . the company s shares are listed on the swiss stock exchange . sulzer brothers helped develop shuttleless weaving and their core business was loom manufacture . rudolf diesel worked for sulzer in 1879 and in 1893 sulzer bought certain rights to diesel engines . sulzer built their first diesel engine in 1898 . contents 1 organization 2 world war ii 3 rail traction 4 new sulzer diesel 5 references organization edit sulzer sales by division annual report 2013 the company is divided in three main divisions pumps equipment pumping systems it produces centrifugal pumps and agitators mixers for the oil hydrocarbon paper power generation water food metals and fertilizer industries at a global scale rotating equipment services service and repair of thermal turbomachinery also manufactures spares for turbines and rotating electrical equipment . chemtech components and services for separation columns and static mixing the sulzer ltd shares are registered at the six swiss exchange . the following shareholders hold in excess of 3 % of the share capital of sulzer ltd renova group 31.20 % 10 689 797 shares june 2 2009 last notification date sulzer engine from a fishing boat in a museum at rouen france sulzer boiler feed pump world war ii edit out of political and personal considerations sulzer decided to sell its subsidiaries in germany by the beginning of the war . 2 sulzer was blacklisted by the allies during world war ii due to an increase in trade with axis countries . sulzer refused to sign an agreement to limit the future sale of marine diesel engines to the axis countries and was blacklisted by the allies as a result . rail traction edit first romanian railways cfr class 60 locomotive built in switzerland sulzer developed a series of rail traction engines in the 1930s and 1940s which were used extensively in diesel locomotives in the uk europe and south america . a small number were used in locomotives in africa and australia . 3 the sulzer lda prefixed by the number of cylinders and with a suffix related to the cylinder bore engine was widely used by british rail and romanian railways . many were built under licence by vickers armstrong at barrow as six eight and twelve cylinder form and in romania by re i a works for electroputere craiova . the twelve cylinder engine was used in the british rail class 47 romanian railways class 60 62 polish railways class st43 china railways nd2 and several others . the 12lda28 engine was a double bank engine having in effect two six cylinder engines side by side rather than a v type as favoured by many other manufacturers . sulzer v type engines for rail use bore the type number lva with a 50 degree angle between the banks . 3 in the late 1970s locomotive rebuilder morrison knudsen installed a series of sulzer power units into several existing locomotives . the first applications were of the marine based 6asl25 30 & 8asl25 30 series used in a morrison knudsen demonstrator and four units for the southern pacific . this was merely reworking of an existing design into a new application 4 ten 16 asv25 30 3 600 hp power units were installed into locomotives belonging to the atchison topeka & santa fe and the union pacific . teething problems plagued these machines and their operation in revenue earning service was brief . research into correcting their problems continued but was eventually curtailed by morrison knudsen late in 1982 . these power units were descendents of the lva range . 4 new sulzer diesel edit in 1990 sulzer spun off the diesel engine division into a separate company named new sulzer diesel nsd and sold most of the shares in it retaining only a minority ownership . in 1997 nsd was absorbed by w rtsil creating w rtsil nsd . w rtsil nsd makes the world s largest diesel engine the w rtsil sulzer rta96 c. they are also one of the few companies that create a camshaftless intelligent diesel main propulsion engine . references edit wikimedia commons has media related to sulzer ag . 1 jean fran ois bergier analysed the exact role of sulzer in world war ii . in switzerland national socialism and the second world war final report a b webb b 1978 sulzer diesel locomotives of british rail ; david & charles locomotive studies isbn 0 7153 7514 8 a b the sulzer engine in diesel traction . a potted and incomplete history 1912 1990 accessed 17 april 2011 retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title sulzer manufacturer & oldid 743814805 categories companies established in 1834companies based in winterthurmanufacturing companies of switzerlandlocomotive engine manufacturersdiesel locomotive enginespump manufacturersmarine engine manufacturersdiesel engine manufacturerstextile machinery manufacturersswiss brandsmanufacturing companies established in 1834hidden categories commons category with local link different than on wikidata navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version in other projects wikimedia commons languages deutschfran aisitalianonederlands edit links this page was last modified on 11 october 2016 at 12 10 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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