Moteurs Baudouin is a French manufacturer of marine and industrial

diesel Diesel may refer to: * Diesel engine, an internal combustion engine where ignition is caused by compression * Diesel fuel, a liquid fuel used in diesel engines * Diesel locomotive, a railway locomotive in which the prime mover is a diesel engin ...

and

natural gas Natural gas (also called fossil gas or simply gas) is a naturally occurring mixture of gaseous hydrocarbons consisting primarily of methane in addition to various smaller amounts of other higher alkanes. Low levels of trace gases like carbo ...

engines. The company was founded in 1918 by Charles Baudouin in

Marseille Marseille ( , , ; also spelled in English as Marseilles; oc, Marselha ) is the prefecture of the French department of Bouches-du-Rhône and capital of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. Situated in the camargue region of southern Franc ...

, France, and later moved its headquarters and manufacturing to

Cassis Cassis (; Occitan: ''Cassís'') is a commune situated east of Marseille in the department of Bouches-du-Rhône in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region, whose coastline is known in English as the French Riviera, in Southern France. In 2016, it ...

. In April 2009, Chinese manufacturer

Weichai Power Weichai Power Co., Ltd is a developer and manufacturer of diesel engines with headquarters in Weifang, Shandong in the People's Republic of China. It also manufactures forklifts and non-diesel engine automotive parts. History Weichai Power was ...

acquired Baudouin for $3.8 million, and has since consolidated its European operations under the Baudouin name. For most of its history, Baudouin built exclusively low-speed diesel engines, primarily for use in fishing vessels, but following the Weichai acquisition it began to develop high-speed engines for use in a wider range of marine power applications. In 2017, Baudouin introduced a range of stationary engines for power generation applications. In 2020, the company began production of its first

LNG Liquefied natural gas (LNG) is natural gas (predominantly methane, CH4, with some mixture of ethane, C2H6) that has been cooled down to liquid form for ease and safety of non-pressurized storage or transport. It takes up about 1/600th the volu ...

-powered engines, initially for stationary use, and started development of a new diesel/LNG marine engine design.

References

External links

Moteurs Baudouin Official Website

Moteurs Baudouin India Official Website
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