Management

40 years of innovation in Common Rail injection

The Founder and CEO of Ganser CRS, Dr. Marco Ganser, has been developing Common Rail injection technology since 1978 and is one of the “Common Rail” pioneers. Over decades, he has greatly influenced the evolution of Common Rail injection, its market introduction and breakthrough until it became the state-of-the-art fuel injection system. Today, the Common Rail injection system is indeed THE injection system. Some of the most important steps in his career are:

• 1953

  Born in Switzerland.

• 1983

  Ph.D. at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETHZ) after his studies in Mechanical Engineering at the same university. The subject of his dissertation was: “Electronically Controlled Accumulator Injection System for Passenger Car Diesel Engines: theoretical and experimental studies”.

• 1993

  Ganser-Hydromag Ltd. supplied the injectors and the rail for the first diesel passenger car with a Common Rail injection system in the world (VW Golf). This car drove for about 75’000 kilometers on the road in a research project of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETHZ).

• 2003

  Formation of the company Ganser CRS Ltd. with own production and sale of Common Rail injection systems for the off-road market.