Kirloskar Oil Engines Limited
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| Private | |
| Industry | Conglomerate |
| Founded | 1945 |
| Headquarters | Pune, Maharashtra, India |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people |
Atul C. Kirloskar, Chairman Nihal G. Kulkarni, MD |
| Products |
Agri Pumpsets Off Highway Engines Agri Engines Generating sets Large Engines |
| Revenue |
 $500 Million USD |
Number of employees | More than 3100 |
| Website | KOEL company website |
Kirloskar Oil Engines Limited (KOEL), a part of Kirloskar Group was incorporated in the year 1946.[1] The company offers engineering products and solutions across the globe and has offices in Dubai, South Africa, and Kenya, and representatives in Indonesia and Nigeria. KOEL also has a distribution network throughout the Middle East and Africa.[2] Their product range include diesel engines, agricultural pumpsets and generating sets.
History
Founded in 1888 by Mr L. K. Kirloskar, the Kirloskar group is one of India's oldest, multi-product, multi-location, diversified engineering conglomerate with annual sales exceeding $2.5 billion. The group, since its inception has contributed to the growth and development of Indian agricultural and industrial development. The group is responsible for many firsts in India. It gave India its first iron plough, water pump, diesel engine and machine tool.
The Kirloskar group of companies was one of the earliest industrial groups which made a mark in the engineering industry in India. The group produces pumps, engines, compressors, lathes and electrical equipments like motors, transformers and generators (it is the worlds largest genset manufacturer). While Laxmanrao Kirloskar established the group, his son S. L. Kirloskar played a major role in its rapid growth.
S. L. Kirloskar was a man who transformed his vision into a promising and thinking reality. He often said, "Economic preparedness is as vital as military preparedness".[3] He always looked at India as a part of the rest of the world and struggled to make India globally competitive - that was his spirit of patriotism.
Businesses
Power Generation
KOEL manufactures air-cooled and liquid-cooled diesel engines and generator sets ranging from a power output of 5 kVA to 625 kVA and 1800 kVA to 6300 kVA. They also offer engines operating on alternative fuels such as bio-diesel, natural gas, biogas and straight vegetable oil (SVO). Their generating sets are branded as Kirloskar Green Gensets.[4]
KOEL also offers customised power solutions including both standby and prime power requirements.
Off Highway business group
The Off Highway business group provides the motive power needs in the range of 20 hp to 800 hp in the global off highway space. It manufactures a diesel engines powering more than 85 Off Highway applications across seven sectors.
Agri business group
The Agri business fulfills the motive power needs of the farmers from 3 hp to 130 hp in the global agri space. It manufactures diesel pumpsets and agri engines powering more than 25 applications across five sectors. Kirloskar pumpsets have been finding applications in India, Egypt, Africa, and Latin and Central America.
Large engines business group
The Large Engines business group (LEBG) manufactures diesel engines from 2,400 hp to 11,000 hp. These large engines finds application in captive power plants (base load / critical standby - AMF or black start) and marine main propulsion.
Large Engine business group services various organisations such as the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd., Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd. and consultants like Engineers India Ltd., MECON, DCPL, PDIL, Bechtel, Fichtner etc.[5]
Manufacturing facilities
Kirloskar Oil Engines Ltd (KOEL) has a nationwide network of operations and manufacturing units in India at Pune, Nashik, Rajkot and Kolhapur plants.
Pune
The Pune-based unit, includes administrative, sales and marketing, sourcing and testing and validation.
Nashik
The large engines facility at Nashik includes a machine shop and assembly line capable of manufacturing most of the necessary components for in-line and vee engines. The engine test facility is equipped to test engines from 2.5 MW to 10 MW dynamo meters. They also have facilities to test diesel generating (DG) sets up to 5 MW rating.[6]
Kolhapur
The kolhapur unit have machine shop & assembly line which manufactures engines,pumpset,generating sets and components.
Group companies
- Kirloskar Brothers Limited
- Kirloskar Brothers Europe B.V
- Kirloskar Pneumatic Company Limited
- Kirloskar Chillers Private Limited
- Kirloskar Integrated Technologies
- Kirloskar Ferrous Limited