Press releases

In April 2010, KSB Aktiengesellschaft, Frankenthal, will present their updated Etanorm SYT pump series to the public for the first time. KSB's latest generation of single-stage volute casing pumps has been specially developed for applications in modern heat transfer systems and hot water circulation.

At the beginning of 2010, KSB de Mexico, S.A. de C.V. received the order to equip La Caldera pumping station in Mexico City with twenty-four large waste water pumps. Sixteen of these are among the largest waste water pumps that KSB is building at its plant in Halle, Germany. Each of the submersible motor pumps type Amarex KRT K 700-900 weighs around 10,500 kg and has an output of approximately 2,000 litres per second.

At the end of last year, the KSB Group shipped five large submersible borehole pumps for the purpose of dewatering and maintaining the water in New York’s famous Delaware Aqueduct while repairs are being done.

At this year’s TECHNOPHARM held in Nuremberg in April, KSB Aktiengesellschaft, Frankenthal, Germany, will make a first-time presentation of yet another pump type series for use in the pharmaceutical and food & beverages industries as well as in biotechnology.

GIW Industries, a KSB Group subsidiary based in Grovetown, Georgia, will provide eight heavy-duty slurry pumps for the construction of Lake Mead Intake Tunnel No. 3.

On 1 December 2009, KSB Aktiengesellschaft, Frankenthal, Germany, received an order for four large water pumps in the million euro range to be installed in the Shuweihat pump station in the Abu Dhabi emirate. With the new pump sets, the local water utility provider complements the pump station in order to extend the supply system already in place. At this station, ten pumps of the same type series are in operation which KSB delivered in 2003.