Sanjay Kirloskar is an Indian

industrialist A business magnate, also known as an industrialist or tycoon, is a person who is a powerful entrepreneur and investor who controls, through personal enterprise ownership or a dominant shareholding position, a firm or industry whose goods or ser ...

and the

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of the Kirloskar Brothers Ltd (a

Kirloskar Group Kirloskar Group is an Indian Conglomerate (company), conglomerate, headquartered in Pune and manufacturing plant in Kirloskarvadi. The group exports to over 70 countries over most of Africa, Southeast Asia and Europe. The flagship and holding c ...

company), and the largest pump manufacturer in India. Under his leadership Kirloskar Brothers Ltd is India's largest pump manufacturer, which produces

centrifugal pump Centrifugal pumps are used to transport fluids by the Energy transformation, conversion of rotational kinetic energy to the hydrodynamic energy of the fluid flow. The rotational energy typically comes from an engine or electric motor. They are ...

s from 0.1 kW to 26 MW.

Early life

Sanjay Kirloskar is the son of Chandrakant Kirloskar and the grandson of

Shantanurao Laxmanrao Kirloskar Shantanurao Laxmanrao Kirloskar (28 May 1903 – 24 April 1994) was an Indian businessman who was instrumental in the rapid growth of the Kirloskar Group. S.L. Kirloskar was the son of Laxmanrao Kirloskar, who established the Kirloskar Gro ...

. He graduated with a

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degree in

mechanical engineering Mechanical engineering is the study of physical machines and mechanism (engineering), mechanisms that may involve force and movement. It is an engineering branch that combines engineering physics and engineering mathematics, mathematics principl ...

from the

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in 1978.

Career

Kirloskar Brothers acquired SPP Pumps (UK), in 2002 and then Aban Construction, one of India's leading construction companies in 2006, followed by The Kolhapur Steels limited in 2007 and Braybar Pumps Ltd (South Africa) in 2010, Syncroflo Inc (USA) in 2014 and Rodelta Pumps International B.V. (The Netherlands) in 2015. For the last 5 years, Kirloskar Brothers has shown an average RONW (Return on Net Worth) of 32%. Kirloskar Brothers Ltd received the

ASME The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) is an American professional association that, in its own words, "promotes the art, science, and practice of multidisciplinary engineering and allied sciences around the globe" via "continuing edu ...

N-STAMP in 2012 and is the first Indian company in rotating equipment to receive this as well as amongst a few companies in the world to have this accreditation. Mr. Sanjay Kirloskar also set up the all-women operated and managed manufacturing plant of Kirloskar Brothers Ltd at

Coimbatore Coimbatore (Tamil: kōyamputtūr, ), also known as Kovai (), is one of the major Metropolitan cities of India, metropolitan cities in the States and union territories of India, Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It is located on the banks of the Noyy ...

in 2010 as part of a drive to have more women in the core engineering industry.

is the second largest metropolitan city of state

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in India.Kirloskar Brothers Ltd produces a pump every 20 seconds at it all women plant
/ref> Today Kirloskar Brothers is India's largest Pump& Valve manufacturer and one of the World's largest Pump manufacturer's by market capitalization.

References

External links

Sanjay Kirloskar and Alok Kirloskar on NDTV Profit
{{DEFAULTSORT:Kirloskar, Sanjay 1957 births Indian billionaires Living people Marathi people Businesspeople from Nagpur