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KSB - The company that keeps it moving
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From minor miracles to major innovations.From unique products to solutions that prove themselves daily . > Customers can rely on KSB for top-class quality, right across the range from familiar standard pumps like Etanorm to complex tailor-made units like the SalTec energy recovery system for desalination processes. size="-2">

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4 History Experience requires a yesterday . And gives us the strength to meet challenges today . > There are two pillars to successful technical innovation: extensive experience and an acute sense of future demands. Bringing those together takes customer benefit and technological progress to new heights. KSB has been improving fluid transport for over 130 years. That steady focus has brought major changes. Company founder Johannes Kleins first pump managed only a few cubic metres per hour. Today, our top performers move more than 60,000. Achievements like that flow from years of research...

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Johannes Klein receives a patent on his newly invented boiler feed apparatusӔ. Together with Friedrich Schanzlin and August Becker, he founds the company Frankenthaler Maschinen- & Armatur-Fabrik Klein, Schanzlin & BeckerӔ, to manufacture boiler feed equipment and valves. KSB becomes a public limited company (AGӔ), run by Johannes Klein.KSB launches the ETAӔ series of energy- efficient, single-stage volute casing pumps for industrial applications.KSB Compaa Sudamericana de Bombas in Argentina becomes KSB᭒s first sub- sidiary in the Americas. Johannes Kleins young-er brother Jacob founds the...

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The company moves into the Asia-Pacific market with a subsidi- ary in Pakistan. KSB builds the first-ever barrel-type boiler feed pump for a 100- megawatt steam power plant run by Chemische Werke Hls, Germany. The pump set delivers a discharge pressure of 409 bar.KSB launches the CPK standardized chemical pump series, developed with German chemical companies the previous year. The first boiler circulat-ing pump with a flow rate of over 1000 cubic metres per hour and an efficiency of more than 84 percent goes into service. Jacob Kleins adopted son Dr. Otto Klein-K쒼hborth hands over his...

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6 The KSB Promise We grow with your questions . Youll grow with our answers . > We get the world moving. Promise. KSB is a leading supplier of pumps, valves and systems. They provide efficient and reliable solutions to the challenges of fluid transport. Wherever you want water to come or go, KSB sets everything in motion to provide the worldҒs most modern pump and valves. In fact, our products move far more than just water. They transport and manage virtually every type of fluid, and cope with any imaginable temperature, composition or hazard potential. KSB pumps and valves work just as...

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8 Industry Our products are a hot favourite in industry. Even for ice-cold orders. > Some of our customers want to transport hot oil. Others want to make artificial snow. Whatever your branch of chemicals, petrochemicals or other industries, youll find that KSB pumps and valves withstand extremes of temperature and pressure. The Nori Ү 40 shut-off valve from high-grade cast steel ensures reliably controlled flow of thermal oil at more than 400 C. size="-3">

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Multitec high-pressure pumps boost snow cannons just as well as industrial plants. >

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10 Energy We want to generate more energy. While using less of it. > Just like water, electricity needs to flow. Our power station pumps help to produce more energy. And we help them consume less them- selves. Energy is in high demand. Consumption continues to increase. So power stations have to run very efficiently and reliably. Advanced technology from KSB lets utility operators produce more and more power from less and less fuel. They want to generate electricity with maximum efficiency and minimum environmental impact. So the boilers have to run at very high pressures and temperatures....

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12 Water and Waste Water We improve life by bringing water in. Or taking it out. > Water is the stuff of life if the quality and quantity are right. We supply desert-dwellers with vital drinking water. And use low-lift pumping stations to keep flood-prone areas safely drained. Our waste water pumps help industry and towns protect the environment. Where water has to reach arid zones, RDLO volute casing pumps provide the high flow rates to match. size="-3">

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13 per hour from areas threatened by flooding. All around the world, our products keep wells, pumping stations, water treat- ment plants, flood control facilities and agricultural irrigation or drainage systems running smoothly. Our Mammouth butterfly valves come in diameters of up to three metres for water pipe- lines. Sewage works operators use KSB pumps for waste water and sludge, and value our high-performance mixers and tank cleaning units. Around the world, millions of people have inadequate water supplies. Millions more live in areas frequently flooded by rivers or oceans....

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14 Building Services In building services, we aim to stay up top . > Our products serve every building level from underground garage to skyscraper roof. For example in hot water circulation, drinking water supply or waste water disposal. KSB sets its sights high. Building services are a case in point. Our pumps are at home in skyscrapers across the globe. They will, for example, be cooling the worlds tall- est tower, the ғBurj Dubai. KSB pumps and valves are at the heart of numerous hot water, heating, air-conditioning and waste water systems in offices, airports and indus- trial complexes....

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Mining 15 And we get to the bottom of any mining challenge. > Whether miles underground or open-cast, we always dig deep for the best solution to solids hydrotransport. Mining is tough. KSB has the skills to match. And solutions made from the latest abra-sion-resistant materials. Our American subsidiary GIW Industries supplies slurry pumps for transporting solids-laden mixtures in mines, coal or sand processing and suction dredgers. In Mongolia, we are digging into the record books. The countrys Erdenet copper mine uses one of the largest slurry pumps ever built Җ to move up to 15,000 cubic...

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