page_title: Jenbacher
section_title: Company profile and products
hierarchical_section_title: Jenbacher / Company profile and products
caption_attribution_description: GE Jenbacher Biogasmotor Güssing 2006 eigene Aufnahme
context_page_description: INNIO Jenbacher designs and manufactures gas engines and cogeneration modules in the Austrian town of Jenbach in Tyrol. It is part of the INNIO portfolio of products and is one of their gas engine technologies; the other being Waukesha Engines. Jenbacher emerged from the former Jenbacher Werke, which was founded in 1959 and manufactured gas and diesel engines, and locomotives. The company was bought out by General Electric in 2003. In November 2018 the company became part of INNIO as part of an acquisition of Advent International and was renamed INNIO Jenbacher GmbH & Co. OHG.
context_section_description: Jenbacher currently specializes in lean burn gas engines, including cogeneration plants and containerized power generator sets utilizing said gas engines. Jenbacher began producing gas engines in 1957.
  Jenbacher's main facility still resides in Jenbach in Austria, and employs over 1400 workers. Jenbacher manufactures the gas engines from the ground-up at this facility, including in-house crankshafts. Jenbacher also maintains regional engine assembly plants in Hangzhou, China, and Veresegyház in Hungary.
  Jenbacher gas engines are exclusively Otto cycle units with industrial grade spark plugs providing ignition. Smaller models utilize stoichiometric combustion, while the larger engines are lean burn engines with prechamber ignition.
  Jenbacher engines run on natural gas, landfill gas, sewage gas, biogas, mine gas, coal gas and syngas. Due to this flexibility they are often used in applications where gas would normally be flared off or released into the atmosphere, to turn waste into energy. Methane has a much higher global warming potential than CO₂, and it is therefore interesting for operators to burn gas in engines instead of releasing it into the atmosphere.
caption: A Jenbacher gas engine running on biogas (bio-methane) in Güssing, Austria
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