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Kirloskar Brothers Limited (which includes Kirloskar Brothers Limited, Aban Construction Company, SPP Pumps (UK)

Pulsometer steam pump

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, Kirloskar Ebara Pumps Ltd., Braybar pumps Ltd (South Africa)and The Kolhapur Steels Ltd) is one of the world's largest pump manufacturers, and the world's only pump company that completes turnkey projects including civil works. Kirloskar Brother produces Centrifugal pumps from 0.1 kW to 21MW with single pumps pumping water in excess of 35,000Liters/sec thus producing India's largest pumps by size and horsepower and also the largest in the world. Kirloskar Brothers exports to over 70 countries and has a brand name to reckon with, especially within India and over most of Africa, South East Asia and across Europe. Kirloskar Brothers Limited was established in 1888, and today it is headed by Mr. Sanjay Kirloskar

Sanjay Kirloskar

Sanjay Kirloskar is the chairman and managing director of Kirloskar Brothers Limited, the flagship & holding company of the $3.5 Billion Kirloskar Group....

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General information:

Product Offering

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

Underwriters Laboratories

Underwriters Laboratories Inc. is an independent product safety certification organization. Established in 1894, the company has its headquarters in Northbrook, Illinois. UL develops standards and test procedures for products, materials, components, assemblies, tools and equipment, chiefly dealing...

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

South Africa

The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...

, USA and Thailand

Thailand

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. In addition to that it has 4 manufacturing plants in India.

KBL's acquisition of Braybar Pumps (South Africa) now gives it a new range of high head multistage pumps (in excess of 1200 Meters head) for dewatering copper, gold and coal mines. In addition to this Braybar provides KBL a range of rubber lined slurry pumps.

Global expansion

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

South Africa

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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

Netherlands

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called Kirloskar Brothers Europe B. V. which has a large sales and service network for customers in Europe. In 2010 KBL has acquired Braybar Pumps Ltd in South Africa which brings with it a range of multistage ring section pumps for dewatering copper, gold and coal mines as well as a range of rubber lined slurry pumps.

Achievements

KBL is India’s largest manufacturer and exporter of pumps and also the largest infrastructure pumping project contractor in Asia. To its credit KBL has created the world’s 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’s second largest water supply system with the world’s highest head in Andra Pradesh. KBL’s 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 multi-billion-dollar Kirloskar Group

Kirloskar Group

The Kirloskar Group is India's largest Engineering and Construction Conglomerate with sales exceeding $3.5 billion...

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

Electric motor

An electric motor converts electrical energy into mechanical energy.Most electric motors operate through the interaction of magnetic fields and current-carrying conductors to generate force...

, transformer

Transformer

A transformer is a device that transfers electrical energy from one circuit to another through inductively coupled conductors—the transformer's coils. A varying current in the first or primary winding creates a varying magnetic flux in the transformer's core and thus a varying magnetic field...

s and generators (it is the world's largest genset manufacturer). While Laxmanrao Kirloskar

Laxmanrao Kirloskar

Laxmanrao Kashinath Kirloskar was an Indian businessman. He was the founder of the Kirloskar Group.In 1888, he set up his first venture - a small bicycle repair shop at Belgaum...

established the group, his son S. L. Kirloskar

S. L. Kirloskar

Shantanurao Laxmanrao Kirloskar was an Indian businessman of Maharashtrian Karade Brahmin family. He was instrumental behind the rapid growth of the Kirloskar Group....

played a major role in its rapid growth.

The Kirloskar Group also set up India's second oldest township Kirloskarwadi

Kirloskarwadi

Kirloskarwadi is an industrial township based around the Kirloskar Brothers factory in the Sangli district, in Maharashtra state, India. It is the second oldest industrial township in India...

in Maharashtra

Maharashtra

Maharashtra is a state located in India. It is the second most populous after Uttar Pradesh and third largest state by area in India...

which is over 100 years old and also has the largest integrated 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

Shantanurao Laxmanrao Kirloskar was an Indian businessman of Maharashtrian Karade Brahmin family. He was instrumental behind the rapid growth of the Kirloskar Group....

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

Rajiv Gandhi

Rajiv Ratna Gandhi was the sixth Prime Minister of India . He took office after his mother's assassination on 31 October 1984; he himself was assassinated on 21 May 1991. He became the youngest Prime Minister of India when he took office at the age of 40.Rajiv Gandhi was the elder son of Indira...

, the then Prime Minister of India

Prime Minister of India

The Prime Minister of India , as addressed to in the Constitution of India — Prime Minister for the Union, is the chief of government, head of the Council of Ministers and the leader of the majority party in parliament...

released a commemorative postage stamp

Postage stamp

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marking the Kirloskar Group's 100th anniversary.

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