Surat, 3 June 2013

Kirloskar Brothers Limited (KBL), a global fluid management company inaugurated its fourth Authorised Refurbishment Centre ( ARC) at Surat, India.

The Authorised Refurbishment Centre in Surat is well equipped with state of the art facility to service, repair and improve efficiency for all small, medium and large pumps manufactured by Kirloskar Brothers Limited. The facility will offer services like overhauling of pumps, hydro testing, corro-coating, performance enhancement, shot blasting & painting and lastly it will also cater to customers having Annual Maintenance Contract ( AMC).

Kirloskar Brothers Limited has eight manufacturing plants in India and seven outside India, and has now embarked on Authorised Refurbishment Centre (ARC), the fourth of which is being set up in Surat. The main objective behind commencing this new facility is to provide its customers with better conveniences of saving transportation cost, reduction in downtime and saving energy by upgrading the pumps.

After Vadodara, this is the second facility being set up at Gujarat. KBL has already introduced this facility in the cities of Delhi and Jamshedpur in the month of January and February 2013. In fact, KBL has also commissioned the World’s Largest Pumping Scheme – The Sardar Sarovar Narmada Nigam Project at Surendranagar, Gujarat in 2007.

Chief Guest Mr H S Kohli, Executive Director, Reliance Industries Limited, inaugurated the Authorised Refurbishment Centre in the presence of Mr Sanjay Kirloskar, Chairman & Managing Director, Mr Jayant Sapre, Executive Director Kirloskar Brothers Limited and other guests from the industry.