Kirloskar Brothers

Kirloskar Brothers Ltd
Kirloskar Brothers Limited Logo
Type	Private
Industry	Pumps
Founded	1888
Headquarters	Pune, Maharashtra, India
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Sanjay Kirloskar, (Chairman & MD)
Products	Pumps Foundry
Revenue	$700 Million USD (2011)
Number of employees	~5200 (2012)
Website	Kirloskar Brothers Ltd

Kirloskar Brothers Limited (KBL) is a pump manufacturing company involved in engineering and manufacture of systems for fluid management. Established in 1888 and incorporated in 1920, KBL is the main company of the $2.1 billion Kirloskar Group. The market leader in fluid management, KBL provides fluid management solutions for large infrastructure projects in the areas of water supply, power plants, irrigation, oil & gas and marine & defence. The company engineers and manufactures industrial & petrochemical, agriculture & domestic pumps, valves and hydro turbines. In 2003 KBL acquired SPP Pumps (UK),^[1] United Kingdom and established SPP INC, Atlanta, USA, is as a wholly owned subsidiary of SPP, UK and expanded its international presence. In 2007, Kirloskar Brothers International B.V., The Netherlands and Kirloskar Brothers (Thailand) Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary in Thailand were incorporated. In 2008, KBL incorporated Kirloskar Pompen B.V. which acquired Rodelta Pumps International B.V. in 2015 in The Netherlands. In 2010 KBL acquired Braybar Pumps, South Africa and in 2012 it established a manufacturing facility in Egypt as SPP MENA. KBL has joint venture cooperation with Ebara, Japan since 1988 under Kirloskar Ebara Pumps Ltd. Kirloskar Corrocoat Private Limited is joint venture cooperation with Corrocoat, UK since 2006. KBL acquired The Kolhapur Steel Limited in 2007, Hematic Motors in 2010. KBL has eight manufacturing facilities in India at Kirloskarwadi, Dewas, Kondhapuri, Shirwal, Ahmedabad, Coimbatore, Kolhapur and Karad. In addition, KBL has seven manufacturing and packaging facilities in Egypt, South Africa, Thailand, The Netherlands, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom and United States of America. KBL has 12,780 channel partners and has a network of "Authorised Centres" and "Authorised Refurbishment Centres" across India, the United Kingdom and South East Asia. The Kirloskarvadi plant of KBL is a manufacturing facility having Asia’s largest hydraulic research centre with testing facility up to 5000 kW and 50,000 m3/hour.

Products

Kirloskar Brothers Ltd has 14 manufacturing plants worldwide of which 3 are Factory Mutual and Underwriters Laboratories approved and so produces FM-UL approved Fire pumpsets. KBL provide a full range of pumps, valves and complete pumping solutions with pumps that can handle flows up to 120,000 m³/h and heads up to 9000 metres. The company manufactures chemical process pumps, API (10th & 11th edition OH2, OH3, OH5, BB1, BB2, BB3, BB4, BB5) pumps, splitcase pumps, end suction pumps, sheet metal pumps, submersible pumps, canned motor pumps, condensate pumps, vertical turbine pumps and boiler feed pumps. It is represented across 70 countries and through its acquisitions has manufacturing plants in the UK, South Africa, USA and Thailand. In addition, it has six manufacturing plants in India.

KBL's acquisition of Braybar Pumps (South Africa) gave 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.^[2]

Research and development

KBL invests in resources on research and engineering.^[3]^[4] This includes sump model studies, intake studies analysis using computational fluid dynamic techniques,^[5]^[6] surge analysis, cavitation studies, seismic analysis, vibration analysis, and transient analysis. The company has 17 patents since 2006 and presents various technical papers to ASME as well as at Texas A&M University in the United States.^[7]

Achievements

KBL created the world's largest irrigation project at the time (March 2007). This was the Narmada Project implemented on behalf of the Gujarat Government.^[8]
Kirloskar Brothers has been 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.^[9]^[10]^[11]
KBL is also the first Indian company to get FM certification for its valves.^[12] Kirloskar Brothers has a presence in over 80 countries^[13]
Kirloskar Brothers Ltd is one of the oldest companies in India and was the first engineering company in India to sell products under an Indian brand in the late 1880s.^[14]^[15]
Kirloskar Brothers Ltd received the ASME N-STAMP in 2012 and is the first Indian company in rotating equipment to receive this as well as amongst a few companies in the world to have this accreditation^[16]
Kirloskar Brothers Ltd is also one of the first pump companies to have an all women operated and managed manufacturing plant at Coimbatore.which is the second largest metropolitan city of state Tamil Nadu in India ^[17]^[18]

Other subsidiary companies

Kirloskar Ebara Pumps Ltd, producing pumps as per API 10th and 11th edition
Kirloskar Construction And Engineers Ltd (formerly Aban Constructions Limited), established in 1966 as a proprietary firm. The company specializes in mechanical and civil engineering construction projects.
SPP Pumps (UK), manufacturers of the pulsometer steam pump
Rodelta Pumps International B.V., producing pumps as per API 10th and 11th edition as well as a range of pumps for paper and pulp and solar power plants
Braybar Pumps Ltd (South Africa)
The Kolhapur Steels Ltd
Hematic Motors Ltd

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