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- Kilburn Engineering Limited designs, manufactures, supplies, erects, and commissions customized drying systems and process equipment for handling solids, liquids, and gases across diverse industries including chemicals, petrochemicals, fertilizers, carbon black, pharmaceuticals, food processing, oil and gas, power, nuclear, steel, and metals. The company offers a comprehensive portfolio of core products and services such as rotary dryers, flash dryers, spray dryers, paddle dryers, vibratory fluid bed dryers, kilns, calciners, reactors, evaporators, crystallizers, conveyor systems, stackers, reclaimers, air preheaters, heat exchangers, pressure vessels, solvent and vapor recovery systems, gas conditioning skids, pneumatic and vibratory conveyors, silos, and packaged systems for air, gas, and liquid drying including instrument utility gas systems; it also provides turnkey engineering, procurement, and construction solutions for industrial projects from conceptualization to commissioning. Founded in 1987 and headquartered in Kolkata, West Bengal, India, with manufacturing facilities in Thane, Maharashtra, the company operates primarily in India while expanding its global footprint through strategic technology partnerships and serving international clients in onshore and offshore applications. Recent developments include the acquisition of Monga Strayfield Pvt Ltd in 2024 for up to INR 123 crore to enhance radio frequency drying, heating solutions, and sheet metal fabrication capabilities for textiles, packaged foods, and export markets in the USA and Europe; entry into a definitive master agreement in August 2025 with Komline-Sanderson Corporation, a US-based provider of process and environmental equipment, under which Kilburn provides manufacturing, engineering, field services, and sales representation to leverage complementary technologies and expand worldwide presence; securing of significant orders such as INR 490 million for a unit and INR 802.8 million entering the ferro alloys sector; and acquisition of a prime factory in Ambernath expected to add INR 100 crore to topline in FY26 alongside proposed capacity expansions.