No company can be linked to the advent of the diesel engine more than Sulzer. Though founded in 1834 by the Sulzer brothers, it was their apprentice, Rudolf Diesel, the inventor of the diesel engine, who paved the way for their diesel engine manufacturing. Following the invention of the diesel engine in 1897 by Rudolf Diesel, 1898 saw Sulzer also successfully test their first diesel engine in close collaboration with Rudolf Diesel. Sulzer would go on to pioneer several new technologies such as the valve-less designs for two-stroke engines, railway locomotives and the world’s first turbocharged two-stroke engine. The Swiss engine maker reached it’s engineering peak with the launch of the massive Sulzer RTA96-C engine in 1994. Sulzer also ventured into the four-stroke engine market with great successes such as the S20, Z40/48 and ZA40S engines. The engine division of Sulzer was later separately set up as New Sulzer Diesel before it was sold and merged into Wärtsilä NSD in 1997 and later into WinGD, completely owned by CSSC in 2016. 

Production of diesel engines with the Sulzer name on them has long stopped, but they are still going strong propelling and generating power on many vessels around the world. And with major parts from stock and access to local specialists, Alang Maritime is ready to supply parts for them to prolong the life of your Sulzer engines as much as possible.