Global reference projects

New York’s most important drinking water tunnel had to be emptied for repairs - quickly and reliably! KSB supplied five of the most powerful submersible motor pump sets ever produced by KSB.

In 2004 the Regional Municipality of Peel began expanding its waterworks, one of Canada's largest water and wastewater infrastructures. From 2010, Peel entrusted this demanding project to KSB.

The Ravenswood Pump Station near Perth in Western Australia is part of the Southern Seawater Desalination Plant. It has the capacity to transfer several million litres of drinking water from the plant and the surrounding reservoirs to Perth’s water supply system.

Strong KSB support for the expansion of the integrated water supply network on the south coast of the state of São Paulo.

Mont St Michel, Normandy is the second most important tourist attraction in France. Due to environmental reasons the infrastructure for removing effluent and wastewater from the abbey had to be upgraded.

In order to secure the water supply and protect the health of rivers, creeks and the environment Gosford City and Wyong Shire Councils have implemented a long term strategy known as WaterPlan 2050. This strategy is being realised through increasing the dam capacity of existing dams and extending the pipeline infrastructure to provide more effective water transportation.

The Bailonggang waste water treatment plant in Shanghai is the largest waste water treatment plant in Asia and one of the biggest in the world. It disposes of the waste water produced by around 3.6 million people.

DC Water’s $3.8 billion, 10-year capital investment program involved the construction of an ENRF system. KSB submersible motor pumps are central to the facility’s operation.

In recent years, the region has invested heavily in water supply systems. A major achievement: the construction of a water supply pipeline and a wastewater gravity pipeline.

Water quality in cooling circuits has a decisive influence on energy efficiency and the reliability of systems and processes. However, practical experience shows that a relatively large number of companies have to deal with high operating and maintenance costs due to poor cooling water quality, and in individual cases even experience the failure of production plants and system circuits.

In times of increasingly professionalised cyber attacks, the importance of secure network components is growing exponentially. This is one reason why internet-enabled products are thoroughly scrutinised by customers before they are used. KSB’s cloud-based KSB Guard was examined by the rubber and plastics specialist ContiTech, and passed the validation with flying colours. This achievement almost overshadowed the fact that the main contract involved the refurbishment and modernisation of an entire cooling water system.

The water supply infrastructure in East Java, Indonesia, was reaching its limits. The way forward: piping in water from a spring almost 100 km away – using KSB pumps and valves to distribute the precious natural resource safely and efficiently to the region's residents. Read more about the project background and challenges

Mexico City is regularly threatened by flooding and stormwater.

The La Caldera pumping station is helping the 20 million inhabitants of the metropolis to fight flooding. KSB submersible motor pumps are doing valuable work there to drain and pump away stormwater and waste water.

Most of us in Germany rarely worry about access to a constant supply of food-grade drinking water. However, in the background water supply utilities are making enormous efforts to ensure that this everyday resource is always reliably on tap. This can involve planning redundancies into otherwise smoothly running systems.

Equipar proyectos arquitectónicos emblemáticos es un honor y un reto para todas las empresas participantes. Aun cuando, como KSB, se hayan logrado anteriormente importantes hitos en innumerables proyectos de infraestructura internacionales, estos no suelen estar a la vista del público general. Sin embargo, en el caso del Quartier Q 6 Q 7 de Mannheim, no había duda de que todo el mundo tendría la mirada puesta en si todos los sistemas funcionaban fiablemente en el nuevo complejo multifuncional de la ciudad.

Water is an essential element of our everyday lives. Ensuring an uninterrupted supply of clean drinking water in compliance with increasingly demanding legal requirements is a challenge for water supply utilities, especially in hot summers with little rain. This situation is exacerbated by increasing demand for water in agriculture. Only with experienced project partners at their side can water companies make precious water continuously available in the required quantity and quality.

Refurbishing an existing system often requires more know-how than setting up a new installation. The equipment being repaired may no longer be cutting edge, but it still serves its purpose for the operator. Comprehensive documentation may be missing and spare parts hard to come by. KSB SupremeServ specialises in these complex challenges and successfully applies a tailored catalogue of measures.

Our customer Nestlé Cailler stands for high-quality chocolate enjoyment. The company achieves this with an unmistakable recipe and optimised production processes – which is where the Swiss place their trust in KSB and our Vitalobe pumps. Vitalobe pumps masterfully handle the high requirements placed on the hygienic production of chocolate. Their strength also lies in being able to flexibly adapt to highly complex production processes.

Having agreed that Landshut must never again experience a catastrophic flood as it did in 2013, the city’s authorities launched a construction project in 2018 with the goal of protecting the Lower Bavarian city from flooding for generations to come. Particularly with regard to climate change and the resulting increase in heavy rainfall events, being adequately prepared for extreme weather in the future was a matter of urgency.

The Dreilägerbachtalsperre reservoir on the German-Belgian border near Roetgen has been supplying water to the district of Aachen since 1911, and takes advantage of water resources in the mountains of the nearby Eifel. From 2004, the connected drinking water treatment plant has routed raw water from the reservoir to a membrane filtration system. The ultrafiltration membranes have such small pores that they allow pure water to flow through, but retain all other substances in the water such as bacteria, viruses and proteins.

In order to achieve sustainable improvements in its environmental performance, the web-fed offset printing company WKS Kraft Schlötes implements ISO 50001-compliant energy management. This involves continuously checking all processes for energy efficiency. These checks revealed that the water cooling system of the commercial printing press for brochure printing is an energy-intensive process. KSB won the contract to provide new pumps capable of achieving competitive energy and cost savings.

For many people, chocolate is more than just one of life’s sweetest temptations. The complex machinery required for the industrial production of this luxury food item also presents engineers with major challenges. In an ever-tightening market, traditional companies in particular, such as the Ludwig Weinrich chocolate factory, need to rise to current economic and ecological challenges. To do this, they need reliable partners.

As Algeria is a predominantly arid country, water is a precious commodity and the transportation of water to two reservoirs which lack water means a blessing for the local population.

Cranberries are one of the world’s “super fruits” and are mainly grown in the USA and Canada. Canada’s largest growing area is in the City of Richmond on Lulu Island in British Columbia where a series of KSB pumps carry out essential tasks involving both harvesting and flood alleviation.

15 propeller pumps with submersible motors from KSB find use in the novel surfing facility of a Milan water park. The operators of Idroscalo were able to open the new attraction right on time for the beginning of the main season. But KSB’s engineers had to put in a lot of work in advance to ensure that everything ran so smoothly and the numerous visitors could enjoy their exciting surfing experience.

KSB se asegura de que en el polígono industrial Kalle-Albert de Wiesbaden (Alemania) nunca se queden sin aire, concretamente, sin aire comprimido.

Para ello, nuestro cliente InfraServ y su filial ISW confían en la profesionalidad de KSB: bombas Etanorm equipadas con la unidad de vigilancia KSB Guard. Así, el vital sistema de aire comprimido funciona de forma fiable y la temperatura de servicio se enfría continuamente. Además, KSB Guard ya está amortizada con excelentes resultados: pudo detectarse a tiempo un desperfecto inminente en los cojinetes y evitar pérdidas mayores.

Even high-quality pumps can sometimes experience malfunctions whose exact cause can only be determined by a long-term diagnosis. External factors are often to blame, and these can only be identified if the affected pump is monitored over a longer period of time using suitable sensor technology. KSB Guard has been developed to determine a problem’s cause so that remedial action can be taken.

The 51 km long Emscher sewer is considered to be the largest wastewater project in Europe and serves the sustainable restoration of the River Emscher in the Ruhr area of Germany. Today, 21 specially designed KSB pumps in two wastewater pump stations ensure that incoming wastewater from the eastern Emscher Valley is pumped from a depth of around 40 m to 8 m below ground level to provide sufficient slope for the wastewater to flow off again down the underground tunnel.

The Thassalia seawater plant supplies sustainable energy for buildings with a 500,000 m² surface area. Find out why high-performance pumps from KSB make a major contribution to the project's success.

Producing particleboard requires high temperatures – KSB and its high-performance heat transfer fluid pumps make sure the thermal oil used is transported smoothly.

Un Mar Báltico más limpio: esta era la idea original que inspiró el proyecto de eliminación de aguas residuales de esta metrópolis de varios millones de habitantes. Hoy, 19 bombas Amarex KRT garantizan que hasta el 98 % de las aguas residuales de la ciudad sean tratadas en una depuradora antes de verterlas al Mar Báltico.

An old building kitted out with modern technology: KSB pumps and valves for heating, air-conditioning, water and sanitation systems help to save 30 % of energy in the Palazzo Grassi.

KSB Guard performs a crucial task at the world’s largest development and test centre for valve technology, the ROLF SANDVOSS INNOVATION CENTER (RSIC) operated by SAMSON: It continuously monitors the pumps, which were also supplied by KSB. The pumps need to operate smoothly under extreme loads and with irregular operating hours. KSB Guard provides important data and operating information, ensuring that unscheduled downtimes are avoided and pump maintenance can be planned efficiently.

KSB products are helping to ensure a more cost-effective supply of energy for Egypt. Read how multiple, internationally sourced KSB pumps and valves are boosting efficiency at El-Tebbin Power Station.