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MTU South Africa is the sub-Sahara Subsidiary of MTU Friedrichshafen (Germany) one of the world's leading manufacturers of high horse-power diesel engines and complete drive systems.

MTU South Africa distributes and services the complete product range of MTU Friedrichshafen and Detroit Diesel Coperation (DDC) engines for off-highway and Detroit Diesel on-highway applications through our regional centres in Cape Town and Johannesburg as well as our office in Durban.
With the offer of these brands, and with the certainty that we will provide the very best in each case, we can meet any customer's need for power, no matter how big or small, better than any other manufacturer. Our products, with the aid of well proven modern electronics are technically advanced and we meet the latest requirements as far as exhaust emissions is concerned, with the advantage of low fuel consumption, excellent reliability, and long service life. These are important and valuable properties contributing towards our driving force of our customers' success.
Our customers are expecting from us to provide much more than "engines" and "horsepower"; they want performance and solutions. Therefore, our people and our dealer network are focused on meeting the needs of our customers and their business. With our enormous capabilities, we offer quality products and the strength of an unified engineering, sales and distribution organization.
Engine overhauls
Engine overhauls are strictly done by our qualified team in compliance with ISO 9000, in accordance with original manufacturing standards in our modern workshops, fully equipped with the latest special tools and with engine testbeds.

Product support
Product support through teamwork and setting of common goals with our customers and OEM's, our technicians support our engines from initial start-up and commissioning right through to field service and on-site support. In our training centre we convey purposeful and careful operation and maintenance to train our technicians, service dealers, operators and OEM's to achieve operational economy, readiness and reliability of our engines. We fulfil all the spare parts requirements of our customers in the Sub-Saharan region effectively with maximum availability of parts and logistic support. An extensive service dealer network in the Sub-Sahara region has been established to cater for the needs of our customers in far away areas.
MTU propulsion systems
MTU propulsion systems have recently been chosen to provide the South African Navy Corvettes with main propulsion and power generation engines. Our modern engines, operating in new or re-powered equipment, are also currently utilized in fleets of mining equipment, contributing towards the profitability of the end user, with high engine availability, reliability of performance and world class fuel consumption, already complying to the latest most stringent emission levels. We also provide a comprehensive range of engines for power generation used in hospitals, office blocks, factories and remote applications.

MTU South Africa is inspired, global, proud, customer-focused and uncompromising. We won't rest for a moment until we know that every customer can trust in our technology and consequently turn his attention to developing his business further.