PUNE: Kirloskar Brothers Ltd (KBL) the flagship company of the $2.5 billion Kirloskar Group today said that it had set up a new manufacturing division – Advanced Technology Product Division (ATPD) – at the company’s mother plant in Kirloskarvadi, Maharashtra. ATPD is a manufacturing division dedicated for high-end technology products, especially those used for nuclear applications, KBL has said in a media release.    

The new manufacturing division is a state-of-the-art facility, spread across 6,000 sq m, and is fully equipped with modern machines and test facilities, including special measuring instruments. The facility is a one-stop-shop for machining, quality-control checks, assembly and testing under high pressure and high temperature.   

KBL is among the world leaders in pumping solutions for various critical applications in the nuclear industry. It is the first and leading manufacturer of primary and secondary sodium pumps for fast-breeder reactors (FBRs) in India. The company is also among the only few providers of primary heat transfer pumps for the nuclear sector. Besides, the company’s concrete volute pumps (CVPs) form an essential part of various nuclear and thermal power plants across India.

"The establishment of the ATPD division is primarily aimed at further consolidating KBL’s capabilities as a full-fledged dedicated provider of some of the most-advanced, fluid-management technologies and solutions for a wide range of applications in the nuclear industry," the media release has added. 

The Kirloskarvadi plant, which is one of India’s first industrial townships, has a comprehensive production capacity for a wide range of centrifugal pumps of various types and sizes backed by in-house design capabilities, thereby eliminating the need to rely on other countries. It is home to Asia’s only 3-D printing machine for pump modelling and also houses Asia’s largest, state-of-the-art, hydraulic-testing facility for testing centrifugal pumps.