The Hindu Business Line : Krohne Marshall opens new facility in Pune

The new three-storey facility has a range of modern equipment for coil winding, form packing, shot blasting for superior surface finish and a modern paint booth with drying oven.

Pune , Feb. 7

KROHNE Marshall Pvt. Ltd, manufacturer of flow meters, level and density instruments and part of the Rs 250-crore energy conservation and process automation major Forbes Marshall, on Tuesday inaugurated its new facility at the MIDC Pune. The company has also introduced the largest flow meter calibration facility in the country.

Krohne Marshall is a joint venture between Forbes Marshall and Krohne Messtechnik, Germany.

Talking to presspersons, Mr Farhad Forbes, Chairman, Krohne Marshall and Director, Forbes Marshall, said the new three storey facility has a range of modern equipment for coil winding, form packing, shot blasting for superior surface finish and a modern paint booth with drying oven. It also houses the new magnetic flow meter calibration rig, which could calibrate flow meters up to 2,000 mm diameter. The new facility has taken in an investment of Rs 4.5 crore, he said.

Mr Forbes said it has also introduced the new product range — largesize magnetic inductive flow meters up to 2,000 mm diameter to address the issue of water conservation.

The flow meters help in measuring the quantum of water harnessed from nature, treated and distributed for human, animal, industrial and agricultural purposes, and the waste water and sewerage that is generated and needs to be treated before being let back into the nature. This would help in keeping a check on UFW (unaccounted for water), which for India is a very high 30 per cent of the total quantum of water harnessed for total consumption.

He said that the flow meters up to 2,000 mm diameter calibration, which has been in the domestic market for the past couple of years, have sold about 200 units last year. He noted that initially these were imported and utilised for domestic consumption. Later on, these were manufactured at the Pune facility, sent across to either China or Holland for calibration, brought back and then sent to the customers. With this new facility, all these could be carried out here and were also open to the option of other customers who wanted calibration to be done on their products.

Looking at the price differential, Mr Forbes noted that this would be at least 50 per cent lesser than the import value. Mr Dubbick, Managing Director, Krohne Messtechnik, said the new facility in Pune would also introduce a new range of vertex flow meters. The product would hit the domestic market in about six months and has been developed by the research and development teams based out of Pune and Germany.

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