limited liability company founded 9 september 1933 headquarters stuttgart bw germany management erik l. manning ceo employees more than 1 000 1 july 2015 products fuel injection systems for diesel engines in the off highway segment website http www.lorange.com status august 2014 v t e l orange gmbh a german engineering manufacturing company is one of the leading manufacturers of injection systems for large diesel engines worldwide . it developed and produced the first common rail system for large diesel engines . l orange is a supplier to engine manufacturers and is part of rolls royce power systems formerly tognum . contents 1 history 2 locations 3 further reading 4 external links 5 references history edit on 9 september 1933 rudolf l orange son of prosper l orange together with his brother harro founded the gebr der l orange motorzubeh r gmbh l orange brothers engine accessories company in stuttgart . initially they produced stamps cylinders needles and needle guides for injection pumps for aircraft and marine engines . his father had sold his inventions and manufacturing rights to the robert bosch ag and this led to the foundation of the company . in hamburg l orange founded the norddeutsche l orange gmbh hamburg subsidiary north german l orange company hamburg to be able to supply the navy with its products . with the advent of new drive technologies rudolf l orange developed and invented new injection systems such as the zweimengend se for continuous atomization . due to the positive response to his products he was able to open three further operations in dresden in niedersch neweide near berlin and in neudamm in pomerania . to escape destruction during the second world war the berlin operation was moved to glatten in the black forest . in 1947 once the war ended a new start for the young company was planned . together with karl maybach who used the l orange direct current system for its high speed lightweight diesel engines for locomotives and ships the company was successful once again . around 1950 l orange together with maybach developed the pump nozzle system that soon became indispensable for large diesel engines thanks to the many benefits it delivered . this invention brought l orange so much success that further locations were opened in munich hamburg and stuttgart zuffenhausen . after the death of rudolf l orange in 1958 his widow continued the business until 1978 . in 1979 itt automotiv took over all the shares of the l orange family then selling them to mtu m nchen in 1985 . soon thereafter in 1989 the second production plant in wolfratshausen was inaugurated . in 1995 l orange was sold to mtu friedrichshafen and then in 2006 incorporated into the tognum group rolls royce power systems ag since 2014 . in 2009 the l orange fuel injection trading suzhou co. ltd. subsidiary was founded in china . in 2014 l orange founded its third production location in ningbo china which was also the first plant to be established outside germany . 1 2 locations edit lo low glatten mg 7324 neu l orange currently has four locations in germany and two subsidiaries in china l orange fuel injection trading suzhou co. ltd. and l orange fuel injection ningbo co. ltd. . management development and sales are headquartered in stuttgart zuffenhausen . the first production plant is located in glatten near freudenstadt where the entire product portfolio is manufactured . injection nozzles are manufactured at the second production site in wolfratshausen . the l orange service centers are located in rellingen near hamburg and suzhou in china . the third production facility is located in ningbo in china . further reading edit hans j rgen reu 75 jahre l orange . in hansa . international maritime journal . issue 11 2008 pp. 31 32 . issn 0017 7504 external links edit http www.lorange.com lorange the rolls royce power system group s homepage http www.rrpowersystems.com references edit seit ber 80 jahren ist l orange in der einspritztechnologie an der spitze . abgerufen am 27 . juli 2012 . seherr tho hans christoph graf von l orange rudolf in neue deutsche biographie 15 . 1987 s. 161 . onlinefassung retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title l % 27orange gmbh & oldid 739208494 categories manufacturing companies based in stuttgartfuel injection systems1933 establishments in germany navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages deutsch edit links this page was last modified on 13 september 2016 at 11 25 . text is available 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