Kimball to produce for Grundfos in Poland

The long term agreement was awarded for assemblies that will be used in energy saving pumps and pump systems throughout the North American, European and Asian markets. Grundfos, a Danish company was a pioneer in the introduction and launch of A-labeled circulator pumps which reduce energy consumption and CO2 emissions. Grundfos with operations worldwide, is a global supplier of pumps and pumping systems to both the commercial and residential markets. Team members from Grundfos toured the Kimball manufacturing facilities in Thailand, Poland, and southern Indiana, as they assessed Kimball’s abilities to transfer production across operations and continents. Prototype activity will likely begin later this calendar year or beginning of next year, with initial production to start during 2010. Initial production is scheduled for the Kimball Electronics-Poland facility. Incremental volume growth over the coming years has the potential to spread production to other Kimball operations in Asia and North America.