Lombardini

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Lombardini is an Italian manufacturer of internal combustion engines with headquarters in Reggio nell'Emilia . Lombardini is part of the US Kohler Company .

history

Together with his partner Pietro Slanzi , Adelmo Lombardini founded an engine production facility in 1922. Lombardini left this company in 1933 to open the Officine Meccaniche Fratelli Lombardini company together with his brothers Alberto and Rainero .

In the 1960s, the first foreign agencies were installed in France, Spain and Germany. Lombardine acquired the technology to build gasoline engines through the acquisition of ACME in Valdobbiadene near Treviso.

Lombardini was a family company until April 1999 when it was sold to US automotive supplier Mark IV Industries . At the end of the same year, Lombardini acquired Italian rival Ruggerini.

Lombardini has been owned by the Kohler Company since June 22, 2007 as Lombardini Srl a Socio Unico a Kohler Company .

Position on the market

Lombardini describes itself as the world's third largest manufacturer of diesel engines up to 50 kW. The Lombardini group includes a number of subsidiaries (e.g. sales companies in France and Germany), Lombardini Marine (builds boat drives mainly based on Lombardini engines). In addition, a number of former competitors in Italy, most recently Ruggerini and ACME, have been taken over over the years.

The motors are used as built-in motors for a wide variety of drive purposes, for garden machines, construction machinery, forklifts, pumps, power generators, light vehicles and also for motorcycles . The focus was / are smaller agricultural equipment, since around 2005 smaller construction machines have been gaining in importance.

The main competitors were mainly Italian small engine manufacturers (e.g. Ducati, Ruggerini, ACME-Motori). At the end of the 1980s, Lombardini had introduced new water-cooled engines, so that the established manufacturers of these engines (all Japanese) joined as competitors. Since then, Lombardini has also been more active in small construction machines, e.g. B. Vibration plates are used, the German company Motorenfabrik Hatz is also a competitor of Lombardini in some areas .

In the beginning there were water-cooled engines and tractors until the engines below were introduced (starting with 3LD).

Products

Mainly diesel engines are produced , but also gasoline engines with one to four cylinders, with both air cooling and water cooling. The power range extends from 4.5 kW to approx. 60 kW (2009).

Petrol engines

  • LGA series - air-cooled 1-cylinder petrol engines, side steering . For types see manufacturer's website.
  • Intermotor series - air-cooled 1-cylinder petrol engines, side steering, replaced by LGA
    • IM250, replaced by LGA
    • IM300, replaced by LGA
    • IM350, replaced by LGA
    • IM359, replaced by LGA
  • FOCS series - water-cooled 2-cylinder in-line engines, OHC.

Diesel engines

  • Series 3LD - 1-cylinder, air-cooled, rope or electric start
    • 3LD400
    • 3LD450
    • 3LD510
  • Series 4LD - 1-cylinder, air-cooled, rope or e-start
    • 4LD640
    • 4LD705
    • 4LD820
  • Series 5LD - 2/3/4 cylinder in-line engine, air-cooled with axial fan, / T with turbocharger
    • 5LD675-2
    • 5LD675-3
    • 5LD675-4
    • 5LD825-2
    • 5LD825-3
    • 5LD825-4
    • 5LD825-4 / T
    • 5LD930-3
    • 5LD930-4
  • Series 6LD - 1-cylinder, air-cooled, rope or electric start. Special designs with power take-off on camshaft (up to 325), crank start on flywheel, vertical crankshaft, clockwise rotation.
    • 6LD260
    • 6LD325
    • 6LD360
    • 6LD400, 6LD401
    • 6LD435
    • 6LD440
  • Series 7LD - 1-cylinder, air-cooled, rope or electric start. Special designs with crank start on flywheel, (later) crank start on camshaft (main power take-off on flywheel), vertical crankshaft
    • 7LD600
    • 7LD665
    • 7LD740
  • Series 8LD - 2-cylinder in-line engine, air-cooled with axial fan
    • 8LD600-2
    • 8LD665-2
    • 8LD740-2
  • Series 9LD - 2-cylinder in-line engine, air-cooled with radial fan
    • 9LD560-2, 9LG561-2
    • 9LD625-2, 9LD626-2
  • Series 10LD / 12LD - 2-cylinder in-line engine, air-cooled
    • 10LD360-2
    • 10LD400-2
    • 12LD440-2
    • 12LD475-2
  • Series 12LD477-2 - 2-cylinder in-line engines, air-cooled with radial fans, taken over from Ruggerini. The motor is fundamentally different from the 10LD / 12LD series, just bears their name.
    • 12LD477-2
  • 11LD series - 3-cylinder in-line engine, air-cooled with axial fan
    • 11LD400-3 (probably never built)
    • 11LD535-3 (probably never built)
    • 11LD625-3, 11LD626-3
  • Series 11LD522-3 - 3-cylinder in-line engines, air-cooled with axial fan, taken over from Ruggerini. The engine is fundamentally different from Series 11LD, just bears its name. May not be sold as Lombardini.
    • 11LD522-3
  • FOCS series - 2/3/4-cylinder in-line engines, water-cooled, swirl chamber injection with pump injectors, overhead camshaft via toothed belt.
    • LDW502
    • LDW602, replaced by 702
    • LDW702
    • LDW903, replaced by 903
    • LDW1003
    • LDW1204, replaced by 1404
    • LDW1204 / T
    • LDW1404
  • CHD series - 3/4-cylinder in-line engines, water-cooled, swirl chamber injection with single plug-in pumps, high-lying camshaft driven by gears. For types see manufacturer's website.
    • LDW1503, replaced by 1505
    • LDW1603
    • LDW2004, replaced by 2204
    • LDW2204
  • 15LD series - 1-cylinder, air-cooled, reversible or electric starter, 225 to 500 cm³. The types up to 440 were adopted by ACME.
    • 15LD225S
    • 15LD225
    • 15LD315
    • 15LD350S
    • 15LD350
    • 15LD400
    • 15LD440S
    • 15LD440
    • 15LD500
  • Series 25LD - 2-cylinder, air-cooled, taken over from Ruggerini.
    • 25LD330-2
    • 25LD425-2
  • LDA422, LDW422 - 1-cylinder diesel engines with pre-chamber injection with gearbox and differential integrated into the crankcase, specially developed for light vehicles. LDA with air cooling for India, LDW with water cooling for Europe.
  • LDW 442 CRS and LDW 492 DCI - 2-cylinder in-line engine, water-cooled. Since the end of 2008, Ligier , Microcar , JDM and Grecav have installed large numbers in light vehicles (driving license class S from 16 years). There are markets for this in Europe and, in the future, especially in India (assumed growth market). One of the world's smallest engines with electronically controlled common rail injection. overhead camshaft, hydraulic valve lifters, 2 counter-rotating balance shafts.
  • KDI series. Developed under the direction of Kohler, 3- and 4-cylinder engines with mechanically controlled injection (M), with turbocharging (TM) or with common rail injection (TCR).
    Kohler KDI2504-TM40 diesel engine in FOGO power generator
    • KDI 1903M
    • KDI 2504M
    • KDI2504TM
    • KDI 1903TCR
    • KDI 2504TCR
    • KDI 3404TCR

Exotic

The engine that drove the first large-scale production of the Royal Enfield diesel motorcycle was a replica of the Lombardini 6LD325 with approx. 6 hp produced by Greaves Cotton .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Timeline of the Kohler Group , accessed on September 19, 2019.
  2. ↑ LOMBARDINI ACQUIRES RUGGERINI. ( Memento from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Kohler Co. Acquires Lombardini Engine Companies From Mark IV (English)

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