Kirloskar Brothers Limited

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Kirloskar Brothers Limited is India's largest manufacturer and exporter of pumps and pioneered centrifugal pumps in India. KBL has 7 manufacturing plants worldwide of which 3 are Factory Mutual and Underwriters Laboratories approved and so produces FM-UL approved Fire pumpsets. It was the first to introduce split-case pumps (it is the world's largest manufacturer of split case pumps), process pumps, large vertical mixed flow pumps, canned motor pumps (KBL is one of the only three manufactures in the World of primary moderator circulation Canned Motor Pump over 200 KW for pumping heavy water), metallic volute pumps and concrete volute pumps in India. Kirloskar Brothers Limited makes pumps from 0.1 kW to 21MW for every application. KBL provide a full range of pumps and complete pumping solutions along with the civil work. It is represented across 70 countries and through its acquisitions has manufacturing plants in the UK, South Africa, USA and Thailand. In addition to that it has 4 manufacturing plants in India.

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Kirloskar Brothers Limited has expanded forward through its acquisition in 2007 of Gondwana Engineers Ltd. Gondwana specializes in water treatment and sewage treatment plants and well as water recycling and sewerage collection . Kirloskar Brothers Limited recently also completed backward integration through the acquisition in 2007 of The Kolhapur Steels Ltd through which KBL can now offer pumps in exotic materials / special metallurgies on a large scale. In 2005 KBL acquired the famous ABAN Construction Company in order to ensure that it fulfills its commitment to its customers to complete both pumping and civil portions on time and in line with Kirloskar Quality requirements. In 2003 KBL acquired SPP Pumps in the UK along with its 3 manufacturing facilities in the UK, South Africa and USA. This now allows KBL to be the only company in India with FM-UL listed pumps for the fire market and now together with SPP, KBL is one of the world's largest players in the Fire Pump business. Kirloskar Brothers Limited has also formed a Joint Venture in the Netherlands called Kirloskar Brothers Europe B. V. which has a large sales and service network for customers in Europe. water chillers

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KBL is India largest manufacturer and exporter of pumps and also the largest infrastructure pumping project contractor in Asia. To its credit KBL has created the world largest irrigation project which was commissioned in March 2007 ( the Narmada Project for the Gujrat Government. This was done for Sardar Sarovar Narmada Nigam, http://www.ssnnl.com/) and on 14 March 2008 commissioned the world second largest water supply system with the world highest head in Andra Pradesh. KBL projects have consistently received numerous Awards and Accolades for energy efficient solutions. KBL also has US Patents for novel and innovative Energy saving designs. Kirloskar Brothers is closely associated with India's nuclear program and has made canned motor pumps for pumping heavy water which are deployed at Indian Nuclear Power Plants.

Kirloskar Group

Kirloskar Brothers Limited is part of the multibillion dollar Kirloskar Group of companies which is one of the oldest industrial groups which made a mark in the engineering industry in India. The group produces pumps, engines, compressors, lathes and electrical equipments like motors, transformers and generators (it is the world's largest genset manufacturer). While Laxmanrao Kirloskar established the group, his son S. L. Kirloskar played a major role in its rapid growth.

The Kirloskar Group also setup India's second oldest township Kirloskarwadi in Maharashtra which is over a 100 years old and also has the largest intergrated pump manufacturing plant in the world. Where four foundries and numerous machine shops produce a large volume of Industrial pumps for Kirloskar Brothers Limited

S.L. Kirloskar

S. L. Kirloskar was a man who transformed his vision into a promising and thinking reality, of application of appropriate technology, customer satisfaction and dauntless integrity. SLK was a global thinker who had the courage and the confidence in his own country even in the pre-independence era.

He created an empire that enjoyed one of the highest growth rates in Indian history, a staggering 32,401% growth of assets from 1950-1991.

In 1988, Rajiv Gandhi, the then Prime Minister of India released a commemorative postage stamp marking the Kirloskar Group's 100th anniversary.

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