Woodward L'Orange
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| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | September 9, 1933 |
| Seat | Stuttgart , Germany |
| management | Andreas Lingens, managing director |
| Number of employees | more than 1,000 ( July 1, 2015 ) |
| Branch | Plant and mechanical engineering |
| Website | www.lorange.com |
| Status: 2019 | |
The Woodward L'Orange GmbH is a German engineering company based in Stuttgart and is one of the world's leading manufacturers of injection systems for large diesel engines. It developed and produced the first series common rail system for large diesel engines. Woodward L'Orange is a supplier to the engine manufacturer and has been part of Woodward since 2018. Previously, L'Orange GmbH belonged to Rolls-Royce Power Systems AG.
history
On September 9, 1933, Rudolf L'Orange , son of Prosper L'Orange , founded the L'Orange Motor Zubehör GmbH brothers in Stuttgart together with his brother Harro . First, they manufactured punches, cylinders, needles and needle guides for injection pumps on aircraft and ship engines. The company was founded because the founder's father had sold his inventions and the manufacturing rights to them to Robert Bosch AG .
In Hamburg , L'Orange founded the Norddeutsche L'Orange GmbH Hamburg branch in order to be able to supply the marine with its products. With the advent of new drive technologies, Rudolf L'Orange developed and invented new injection systems, for example the two-volume nozzle for continuous atomization. Thanks to the positive response to his products, he was able to open three more businesses: in Dresden , Niederschöneweide near Berlin and Neudamm in Pomerania. In order to avoid destruction in World War II , the Berlin company was relocated to Glatten in the Black Forest.
In 1947, after the end of the war, a new start was sought for the young company. Together with Karl Maybach , who used L'Orange's direct current system for his high-speed, lightweight large diesel engines for locomotives and ships, the company became successful again. Around 1950, L'Orange developed the pump-nozzle system together with Maybach , which soon after became indispensable for large diesel engines due to various advantages. This reinvention brought L'Orange so much success that branches from Glatten soon opened again in Munich , Hamburg and Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen.
After Rudolf L'Orange's death in 1958, his widow continued the company until 1978.
ITT Automotive took over all the shares of the L'Orange family in 1979, but sold them to MTU Munich in 1985 . Shortly afterwards, in 1989, the second production plant was inaugurated in Wolfratshausen . In 1995, L'Orange was sold to MTU Friedrichshafen and finally incorporated into the Tognum Group in 2006 ( Rolls-Royce Power Systems since 2014 ). In 2009, the subsidiary L'Orange Fuel Injection Trading (Suzhou) Co., Ltd. founded in China. In 2014 Woodward L'Orange established its third production site in Ningbo (China), which is also the first plant outside of Germany. In April 2018, Rolls-Royce Power Systems sold the company to its competitor Woodward in the USA.
Locations
Woodward L'Orange currently has four locations in Germany and two subsidiaries in China - L'Orange Fuel Injection Trading Suzhou and L'Orange Fuel Injection (Ningbo) Co. Ltd. Management, development and sales are located in Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen. Production is on the one hand in Glatten near Freudenstadt, where the entire product portfolio is manufactured. Injection nozzles are completed at the second production site in Wolfratshausen. L'Orange's service centers are located in Rellingen near Hamburg and Suzhou in China. In addition, the third production site is in Ningbo (China).
literature
- Hans-Jürgen Reuß: 75 years of L'Orange. In: Hansa. International Maritime Journal. Issue 11/2008, pp. 31-32. ISSN 0017-7504
Web links
- www.lorange.com
- Group homepage at http://www.woodward.com/default.aspx
Individual evidence
- ↑ L'Orange has been at the forefront of injection technology for over 80 years. Retrieved July 27, 2012.
- ↑ Seherr-Thoß, Hans Christoph Graf von: L'Orange, Rudolf. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 15, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-428-00196-6 , p. 161 ( digitized version ).
- ↑ http://www.econo.de/aktuelles/artikel/rolls-royce-verkauf-l-orange-6311/