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We are a 1.20 billion US Dollars engineering conglomerate driving critical industries. We are century old pioneers in our areas of specialization like power, construction and mining, agriculture, industry and transport, oil and gas and environment protection with a range of world-class industrial products and turnkey services.
We are made up of 8 major group companies, each led by the best engineering and managerial talent in India. In addition to engineering, we have interests in civic utility systems and in Information Technology and communication.
Our multi-unit, multi-product, multi-location conglomerate is built on the plinths of Experience, Expertise, Quality, Innovation and Values in the business. Our best play is successful work and creation of a new industrial order where we can provide tailor made solutions to the customers.
At Kirloskar, listening to the customer and his needs is a tradition as old as the group itself. For it is they who drive us further, make us reach higher, and engineer better solutions. In the customer's often unspoken wish for better implements lies the seed for a new invention, a path-breaking industrial concept.
It has now been more than a century since the Kirloskar story started. We started with an aim of becoming the pioneers in fields in which our country needed innovation. In the 100 years and more that we have been in existence as a family and as an organisation, we've been seminal to Indian agricultural and industrial development. We gave India its first iron plough, pump and engine; inventions that were deviced from the need of the hour and went on to become signs of the time. Which is why our group history can in many ways can be considered a history of the economic and industrial revolution in India.
The founder and the first factory village
Laxmanrao Kirloskar Photo
The Kirloskar story starts with Laxmanrao Kirloskar, the founder. A man who believed that an understanding of one's environment and reality was essential to the manufacture of path-breaking industrial implements. From this steadfast belief was born the iron plough, the first Kirloskar product. Originally intended as an essential aid to agriculture, the plough soon became an icon of reform and revolution.
A highlight of the early history of the group is Kirloskarvadi, India's first industrial township. A model factory-village created by Laxmanrao and his band of dedicated workers.
In January 1910, when the Kirloskar were being ousted from Belgaum to make room for a new suburb, they found themselves in dire need of a place to live and work. Sensing this need, the Raja of the princely state of Aundh, who admired and respected Laxmanrao Kirloskar, offered the latter all the land he needed in Aundh state.
Two months later, Laxmanrao Kirloskar set foot on 32 acres of barren land strewn with cacti and infested with cobras. Driven by his faith in human ability, Laxmanrao banded together 25 workers and their families and succeeded in transforming the barren expanse into his dream village. Ramuanna, Laxmanrao's brother, planned and administered the township, Shamburao Jambhekar doubled as engineer and all-round healing man, K.K.Kulkarni, an unsuccessful student, became a manager, treasurer and odd jobs man, Mangeshrao Rege was the clerk and chief accountant, Anantrao Phalnikar, a school drop-out flowered into an imaginative engineer. Such was our founder's faith in the human being that, Tukaram Ramoshi and Pirya Mang, both convicted dacoits, became the trusted guards of Kirloskarvadi!
The first Kirloskar Group Company
Fodder Cutter Photo
Kirloskar Brothers Limited (KBL) - the first Kirloskar venture at Kirloskarvadi was to become the base for all of the Kirloskar Group's subsequent enterprises. It began as the only Indian company with its own standard products - the fodder cutter and the iron plough, which competed with the British products.
KBL also manufactured groundnut shellers, sugarcane crushers and pumps, which were to usher in a new economic order in the Indian industry. To power these machines, diesel engines, coal gas generators and electric motors were developed at Kirloskarvadi.
In a display of great versatility, KBL then shifted its focus to fluid handling and control. As India's largest manufacturer of pumps and valves, and also the group's flagship company, KBL lends its strength and expertise to every new venture of the Kirloskar Group.
Playing a part in the War
The intensified boycott of the British goods and the approaching World War threatened to stop imports of machine tools into India. The Kirloskar, with characteristic foresight began making machine tools. This paradigm shift of sorts, from farm implements to machine tools, created a new company - The Mysore Kirloskar Limited. This company, situated in Harihar, benefited greatly from the patronage of yet another Raja - the Maharaja of Mysore. In the first month of production, Mysore Kirloskar sold all of manufactured seven lathes.
The new generation -Innovation, creation, tradition
From colonialism to independence
An important change, for the country, and for one of its premier industrial houses, the Kirloskar Group. The altered political climate of the 1940s heralded the end of the princely patronage for enterprise.The policy shifts and changes in authority were the order of the day. This marked a turning point for the group.
Fodder Cutter Photo
Shantanurao Kirloskar, the eldest son of the founder travelled to Pune to initiate a new aspect of the group's activities - diesel engines. His experience of trying to secure the land for his factory in Pune was quite different from his father's in Kirloskarvadi. There was no benevolent ruler here to bestow acres gratis. Shantanurao had to face the tangle of red tape and public resistance to acquisition of land for industrial purposes.
Finally, after arguing that factories have a longer life than human beings Shantanurao Kirloskar won a place for Kirloskar Oil Engines Ltd. (KOEL), twelve months after signing an agreement of collaboration with Associated British Oil Engines Export Ltd. of UK.
This collaboration, incidentally, was the first of its kind between an Indian and a foreign company, and signified a bridging of the technological gap between east and west.
The KOEL factory was incorporated in 1946, and soon after that gave India her first vertical high-speed engine. Brijlal Sarda, who reported its satisfactory running for over 4 decades, bought this first engine!
To electric motors and pneumatics
The making of the electrical motor. This was the second of Laxmanrao Kirloskar's long cherished dreams, the first being the making of an engine. This task was brought to completion by Ravi Kirloskar, his youngest son, in 1946. Way back then, the authorities whom Ravi Kirloskar had approached for land were astonished by the request for 25 acres. Today, Kirloskar Electric Company Limited (KECL) has four plants occupying several times that acreage.
Fodder Cutter Photo
KECL's logo in the 40's
The setting up of KECL and other Kirloskar companies saw a major role being played by Nanasaheb Gurjar, a lawyer who made industry his sole area of operation. Though the development of air compressors was an established activity at Kirloskarvadi, a full-fledged plant to manufacture the same was set up at Pune in 1958, under the eventual management of Shreekant Kirloskar, Shantanurao's youngest son. In collaboration with Broom and Wade of England, Kirloskar Pneumatic Company Limited began the manufacture of air compressors and pneumatic tools.
Today, its turnkey expertise is sought in almost every major industrial project in India. Collaboration with Twin Disc Inc. of the USA has taken the company into torque invertors, marine gearboxes and rail traction transmissions.
A new direction - services
The phenomenal success of the Kirloskar name prompted entrepreneurs and businessmen of the time to approach the group for guidance and expertise. This gave birth to the concept of formalised engineering consultancy and a new company - Kirloskar Consultants Limited (KCL) in 1963. Marking an extension of the group's repertoire from manufacturing to services, KCL, in its 25 years of operation, has contributed to critical areas such as defence, irrigation, roads and environment.
This paradigm shift saw the setting up of yet another service company - Pune Industrial Hotels Limited in 1964, the Kirloskar Group's first foray into hospitality. This company set up Hotel Blue Diamond in Pune and began to manage Hotel Pearl in Kolhapur. The Baker's Basket confectionery chain and the Hotel and Catering Consultancy Services (HOCON) were also set up.
The dawn of a new millennium
To meet the changing demands of a global business environment and emerging economic trends, the Kirloskar Group has refocused and restructured its direction by concentrating on its core segment of agriculture, water supply, power, and air conditioning. By consciously opting out of hospitality, advertising and unreal services, the Group has channeled its potential in these core sectors.
The Group aims at unlocking the strength and value in the Kirloskar brand and distribution to enhance returns for its stakeholders. It has identified and is implementing processes that would bring greater customer focus and competitiveness.
Today, the Kirloskar Group is a conglomerate with interests across a diverse range of industries. It is still spurred by the simple yet profound ethic born with Laxmanrao Kirloskar that where there is will there are many ways.
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