130 years of KSB

2009

The German-Chinese joint venture SEC-KSB Nuclear Pumps and Valves Co. Ltd. holds the ground-breaking ceremony for its factory in Lingang, near Shanghai, producing pumps and later on valves for Chinese nuclear power stations.

2008

KSB establishes joint ventures with two Asian companies. The German-Japanese cooperation Nikkiso-KSB GmbH develops and sells canned motor pumps for the European and Middle Eastern markets. The German-Chinese joint venture company Shanghai Electric-KSB Nuclear Pumps and Valves Co. manufactures safety-relevant pumps and valves for the Chinese nuclear power plant market.

2007

The Supervisory Board approves the largest single investment in KSB’s recent history. It covers the construction of new halls as well as modern production and testing facilities at the Frankenthal and Halle sites.
KSB’s innovative product Microchem is the world’s first centrifugal pump for moving the smallest of quantities in micro-process engineering applications.

2006

KSB receives an order for valves amounting to roughly € 17 million, the largest valves contract ever secured in the company's history.
In December of 2006, the 60,000th Eta pump produced in that year left the factory. This is an all-time record in KSB's standard pumps production.

2005

KSB acquired the valve business of IVC S/A Indústria de Válvulas e Controles, a Brazilian company whose products are primarily employed in the oil and gas industry, in power stations, paper mills and in various other industrial applications.

2004

KSB introduced a new system for use in reverse osmosis (RO) desalination. The system, called "SalTec", enables energy costs to be reduced compared with conventional turbine solutions through hydraulic power transmission.