Forbes Marshall provides innovative solutions to help businesses improve their energy and process efficiency and be more environmentally responsible. We have been working in the field for 75 years servicing customers across India, North and South America, Africa, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, and Europe.

Forbes Marshall traces its origin to 1926 when J N Marshall began supplying requisites to textile mills. In 1946, Darius M Forbes, our founder, joined his uncle, J N Marshall and they began trading in various energy saving steam equipment as well as imported boilers.

A foreign exchange payment crisis struck India in 1957 and the government did not renew J N Marshall’s import licence. The only way forward then was to manufacture. The first factory was set up at Kasarwadi in Pune and manufacture began in 1959. The second unit was set up in Hyderabad in 1985 for the manufacture of gauges. The third factory was established in Pimpri near Pune in 1986 for the manufacture of control instrumentation.

Forbes Marshall specialises in providing products and services in steam, instrumentation and control and monitoring systems. We help optimise output and yield quality while keeping the energy and resource consumption measurably low. Our brand is known for its decades of manufacturing and technical expertise, differentiated product basket and hands-on customer service. We also have powerful partnerships within the industry with leading technology specialists in the UK, Switzerland, Germany, Belgium, and Japan.

We have three focus areas. We enable industries to conserve energy, with a focus on stopping wastage, improving efficiency with monitoring, analytics and control,
recovering waste heat and feasibility of renewables. We help industries to optimise process efficiency by helping improve productivity and product quality with reduced energy and utility footprint. We equip plants to reduce their impact on the environment through monitoring emissions and discharge to help them stay within statutory norms and reducing CO2 emissions by reducing energy consumption and controlling water consumption through reuse.

Our in-depth customer knowledge fuels our innovation. Our investment in Research and Development, amongst the highest within the Indian engineering sector, matches global benchmarks. This results in a constant flow of differentiated offerings

Our first factory at Kasarwadi manufactured steam engineering products including boilers and steam equipment. In 2008, Forbes Marshall made its first overseas
investment in the UK, in Codel International which manufactured pollution control equipment, which became a group company in 2015. In 2021, a second manufacturing unit was set up in Singapore to cater to the growing demand in the Far East.

Forbes Marshall established joint ventures with leading technology companies in Europe. The first was with a British company for steam equipment in 1946 and
Forbes Marshall acquired its entire Indian stake in 2015. A joint venture for boilers was also formed in 1946 with Cochran. In 1984, a JV with KROHNE of Germany was formed for the manufacture of flow and level instrumentation. A JV formed in 2009 with VYNCKE of Belgium brought state biomass-fired boilers to India. An association with Shinkawa of Japan enabled us to market vibration monitoring equipment in India.

These partnerships with leading technology companies helped us provide cutting edge quality products to discerning customers in India.

Over the last 75 years, we have strived to build resilience in communities through improved healthcare, access to education and women’s empowerment. Forbes Marshall has always believed in the philosophy of contributing and giving back to the community it operates in.

We aim to foster shared value, inclusion and community well-being by catalysing diverse resources and building meaningful partnerships. We focus on building the capacity of local leadership leading to sustainability of the project. The tenets guiding our approach are social justice, gender equity and well-being. We believe that programmes for social change must apply these tenets horizontally to make a difference on the ground.

Our Community Development Programmes focus on the fundamental yet underserved needs of the most vulnerable population groups, proximate to us. We focus on empowering individuals, families and communities through access to education and skilling, sustainable livelihoods, social justice as well as health and well-being. We strive to work with the marginalised and vulnerable communities, through local non-profit organisations and service providers.

Encouraging collaborations between industry and academia can facilitate knowledge transfer and innovation. These partnerships can help bridge the gap between
academic research and industrial application. The Affirmative Action training programmes for graduate engineers instituted jointly with Confederation of Indian Industry, joint research projects, faculty development programmes, providing centres of excellence and laboratories at engineering colleges, for steam engineering and flow and level, are initiatives that help improve employability and make young engineers job- ready.