KSB Pumps Limited, part of the 139-year-old global conglomerate KSB AG having more than 30 manufacturing sites in 19 countries, with an annual sales revenue of approximately Euro 2 billion and more than 14,000 employees around the world, one of the leading producers of Pumps, Valves and Systems is completing 50 glorious years in India

KSB Pumps for the last 50 years since the inception in India has been customising and offering products, solutions, systems and service to match needs and expectations of customers from various market segments, viz., power industry and oil, water, waste water and environment engineering and building services.

KSB India's manufacturing facilities are one of the largest outside Germany and serve as an important sourcing location for the KSB Group worldwide. KSB India satisfies a large part of the global requirements for 100 mm submersible pumps, end suction water and process pumps (MEGA), SICCA range of ANSI - gate, globe and check valves, pumps for power and industry segments - HG, CHTR, WKT, HGM and the new generation Multitec, castings and finished components

KSB India is an ISO 9001 and an ISO 14001 company, which is committed to offering world class pumps, valves and services to her customers. These awesome credentials, gathered over the last 50 years, have helped the Indian outfit to be a force to reckon within the Indian market and play a significant role in the KSB Group's worldwide Global Manufacturing Network. All this has been made possible by the commitment and dedication of the collective strength of a 2000 strong team who firmly believe that rewards come through the success of a client's project.

KSB India - Six Facets

KSB India has invested in world class facilities and technologies to cater to the demands of the Indian sub continent. These facilities are fully equipped to advise customers, design, test, fabricate and quality-assure on all aspects of fluid mechanics in India. All the plants in Pimpri, Chinchwad, Vambori, Coimbatore and Sinnar are a showcase of immaculate manufacturing and engineering practices.

Each facility dedicated to a market segment and a product line. In-house design and manufacture of jigs, fixtures and dies under strict tolerances ensure that the highest levels of quality are maintained.

KSB in India has systematised concurrent production of dissimilar components. All components, each with different specifications, flow through the computer controlled manufacturing process.

The six facets of KSB India are:

• Irrigation and Process Division (IPD)
• Foundry Division (FD)
• Power Projects Division (PPD)
• Industrial Valves Division
• Water Pumps Division (WPD), and
• Marketing Division.

Irrigation and Process Division (IPD): the first plant to be set up in India in 1960, it specialises in catering to the wide ranging pumping needs of water supply and treatment; drainage; sugar; pulp and paper and chemical process including petrochemical industries. Pumps in this division include chemical process, multistage high pressure, non clog pumps and special pumps for refineries.

Foundry Division (FD): established in 1974 in Vambori, near Ahmednagar in Maharashtra, the production line features quality castings in ferrous alloys like CF8M and CF3M for corrosive fluids, CA6NM for boiler feed and mildly corrosive fluids, GSC25/WCB for refineries and high temperature fluids; NiCI for caustics, alkalis and basic salts apart from cast iron. The non-ferrous alloys include LTB2, and Zinc free Bronze like CuSn10.

Power Projects Division (PPD): set up at Chinchwad, Pune, in 1978, in response to the growing needs for special pumps for Nuclear Power Stations, through a tripartite agreement with Department of Atomic Energy (Government of India), KSB AG, and KSB India. The group has an undisputed leadership in supplying high precision pumps to hydro, thermal, co-gen; nuclear and supercritical ultra mega power plants the world over.

Industrial Valves Division: diversified to manufacture industrial gate, globe and check valves in the year 1987 in response to the many pump customers who expressed the need for high quality valves for steam and process fluid applications across the industry segments. KSB SICCA ranges of valves are in operation in a wide spectrum of industries for feed water, super heated steam, process steam, thermic fluids and other process fluids.

Water Pumps Division (WPD): the fifth manufacturing unit of KSB India established at Sinnar, near Pune, to mainly manufacture standard pumps for handling water. Currently, produces standard bore well submersible pump sets ranging from 100 to 350 mm sizes, sewage handling pumps, and standard industrial pumps in the end suction and multistage constructions.

And this quest continues ...

Today, apart from the five manufacturing units, KSB in India has a very strong marketing, sales and service setup to offer solutions to customers effectively.

All of the Rs 8000 Mn worth of pumps and valves are offered to the market today, are through a very wide distribution network comprising of 4 zonal offices, 16 branch offices, 575 authorised dealers, 4 service stations, 88 authorised service centres and 18 go-downs; all this to ensure that for every KSB pump and valve in use, there is a KSB sales and service outlet around the corner.