CORPORATE PROFILE
Kirloskar Brothers Limited (KBL)
Established in 1888 and incorporated in 1920, Kirloskar Brothers Limited (KBL) is the flagship company of the $1.2 billion Kirloskar group. The core businesses of KBL are large infrastructure projects (Water Supply, Power Plants, and Irrigation), Project and Engineered Pumps, Industrial Pumps, Agriculture and Domestic Pumps, Valves and Hydro turbines.
KBL Sales in 2009-2010 exceeded US $ 590 Million with a market capitalization of more than US $ 650 million.
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 pumping scheme which will irrigate more than two million hectares of land and supply water to 4620 towns and villages in the state of Gujarat in India (Sardar Sarovar Narmada Nigam Scheme). KBL also commissioned a water pumping scheme called The Devadula Scheme in Warangal a town in Andhra Pradesh with the world’s second highest head, supplying water to 4 drought prone socio-economically backward districts which will bring about a green revolution there.
KBL is one of the world’s leaders in pump technology.
- KBL is one of the three manufacturers in the world who have manufactured and installed 200 kW Canned motor pumps for nuclear application .
- KBL is the first company to introduce Concrete Volute Pumps in India.
Our subsidiary company in England, SPP Pumps Limited (Acquired in 2003) is the undisputed leader in the Fire-fighting and Water Supply segments in Europe and the Middle East. They have recently launched lowest life cycle cost pumps in the UK successfully with large players like Thames Water preferring these energy efficient products. Together KBL and SPP represent the world’s largest fire fighting pump business for onshore and offshore applications.
