In the year 1920, the Late S L Kirloskar promoted Kirloskar Brothers Limited (KBL).  Currently, Mr Sanjay C Kirloskar is the Chairman & Managing Director of KBL.

The Company manufactures agricultural implements, power-driven pumps, sugarcane crushers, sluice valves, concrete mixers, machine tools, etc. Subsidiaries of KBL are Pooja Credits, Kirloskar Copeland (environment-friendly compressors) and Kirloskar Silk Industries.

KBL has designed and developed India's first large-size canned motor pumps of 220 KW rating. These pumps were developed for The Nuclear Power Corporation of India to be used for handling heavy water at 80-degree Celcius. During the year 1997-98, the company inaugurated its
Anticorrosion Coating Plant at Kirloskarvadi having a capacity of 150 TPA. In 1998-99, the company also tied up with one of the world leaders in hydro-turbines - Ebara Corporation, Japan to offer turnkey execution facilities. Kirloskar Ebara Pumps Ltd (KEPL), a subsidiary of the company was awarded ISO 9001 Certification and helped the company in getting overseas consultants and prospective clients to improve exports.

The work of KBL's first mini-hydel electric project site at Murkurthy, Tamil Nadu, is nearing completion. For the domestic segment, the agricultural and domestic pumps group launched all round "PP" shallow well jet pump and the group has received ISO 14001 accreditation, the globally recognised standard for environmental management systems for its Dewas and Shirval Plant.

Address: Udyog Bhavan, Tilak Road, Pune - 411 002,
Phone: 444 4455 / 540 0156
URL: www.kbl.co.in

Text: Rahul Surkund
Photo Courtesy: Kirloskar Brothers