Engineered with passion
As insights from the company’s in-house research show: Progress, innovation and diversity are part of KSB’s corporate culture.
Shanghai
Test facility for water transport pumps
90,000 m3/h
Volume flow rate
Volume flow rate
90,000 m³/h can be circulated by the test
facility for large water transport pumps – that corresponds to a water volume of around 170 full bathtubs per
second.
Worldwide
439
Employees in Research & Development
The number of employees engaged in research and development in 2021 was 439.
Frankenthal
Component test facility for liquid salt
700 °C
To develop components for recirculation pumps that use liquid salt as a coolant, KSB has built a test facility
which circulates fluid with a temperature of 700 °C.
Worldwide
27,800
Pump tests a year
To ensure and further improve product quality, KSB tests 27,800 pumps a year at its test facilities worldwide.
Worldwide
600,000Tonnes
CO2 equivalent saved
Using digital monitoring solutions like the KSB Sonolyzer app and PumpMeter saves a lot of energy. The potential savings are equivalent to 600,000 tonnes of CO2.La Roche-Chalais
Butterfly valve test facility for liquid nitrogen
-196 °C
Fluid temperature
Fluid temperature
KSB tests butterfly valves for use in liquefied natural gas applications at a test facility with liquid nitrogen
at a fluid temperature of –196 °C.
Frankenthal
Test facility for power station pumps:
20,000 kW
electrical drive rating
The test facility for power station pumps has an electrical drive rating
of 20,000 kW, which corresponds to
the power of 250 cars with 80 kW each.
Worldwide
Statistics show that having
sold 1,250,000 units of the
current ETA pump family
manufactured since 2013,
every 1.4th pump was
different.
Every 1.4th
pump different