[2][3] Kirloskar Brothers Limited provides fluid management solutions for large infrastructure projects in the areas of water supply, power plants, irrigation, oil & gas and marine & defence.

[4] The company engineers and manufactures industrial & petrochemical, agriculture & domestic pumps,[5] valves and hydro turbines.

The Aundh electroplating job led to Laxmanrao being tasked with a major project: constructing an assembly hall adjoining the temple.

Luckily, Balasaheb Pant Pratinidhi, the same individual who gave Laxmanrao the Aundhi temple assembly hall contract many years earlier, helped the brothers set up a factory in Aundh.

[6] In November 1926 at the Industrial Exhibition held in Poona, KBL showcased the first diesel engine and centrifugal pump in India.

During the Great Depression in India, Shantanu focused on developmental work creating water pumps for the Uttar Pradesh government, and a small sugar centrifuge for farmers.