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The flagship and holding company, Kirloskar Brothers Ltd, established in 1888 in Kirloskarvadi, kirloskar group is India's largest maker of pumps and valves. [3] [4] It was the manufacturer of India's first modern iron plough. [5] One of the group companies is a major component supplier for the Indian Arihant Nuclear Submarine program
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 [18] [19]
It gave India its first iron plough, water pump, diesel engine and machine tool. [citation needed]. The compressor business was divested from Kirloskar Brothers Limited to form Kirloskar Pneumatic Company Limited (KPCL) in 1958. The Kirloskar group of companies was one of the earliest industrial groups in the engineering industry in India.
It is the second-oldest industrial township in India. On 10 March 2010, Kirloskarvadi celebrated 100 years [1] of its establishment. Kirloskarvadi is a rapidly growing satellite suburb of Palus city. The famous holy place of God Datta Maharaj Audumbar is just 10 km away. While Sagareshwar picnic spot is around 8–10.
Kirloskar Brothers acquired SPP Pumps (UK), in 2002 and then Aban Construction, one of India's leading construction companies in 2006, followed by The Kolhapur Steels limited in 2007 and Braybar Pumps Ltd (South Africa) in 2010, Syncroflo Inc (USA) in 2014 and Rodelta Pumps International B.V. (The Netherlands) in 2015.
Toyota Kirloskar Motor Private Limited (TKM) is an Indian joint venture between Toyota Motor Corporation (89%) and Kirloskar Group (11%), for the manufacture and sales of Toyota cars in India. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The headquarters are located in Bidadi , Karnataka , near Bengaluru .
Shantanurao Laxmanrao Kirloskar (28 May 1903 – 24 April 1994) was an Indian businessman who was instrumental in the rapid growth of the Kirloskar Group. [ 1 ] S.L. Kirloskar was the son of Laxmanrao Kirloskar , who established the Kirloskar Group and the township of Kirloskarwadi .
The plant started delivering 340 MW of power to the City of Toronto in June 2008 in single-cycle operation and was fully operational with an output of 550 MW by the second-quarter 2009. [6] Total capital costs are expected to reach $730MM.