W P I L Ltd was incorporated on February 6, 1952 at Calcutta under the name and style of Johnson Pumps India Ltd. subsequently the name of the company was changed to Worthington pumps India Ltd. on January 29, 1983.

The company is mainly engaged into manufacturing of vertical pumps, horizontal pumps, grey iron, castings and sluice valves.

WPIL dedicates itself to the cause of total customer satisfaction. The company has to its credit a rich experience of more than 50 years in designing, developing, manufacturing, erecting, commissioning and servicing of pumps. Either with the help of erstwhile foreign collaborators such as Johnston Pumps for vertical turbines, Hayward Taylor for submersibles and Worthington for horizontals; or with the in-house R&D recognized by the Ministry of Science and Technology, Govt. of India, it has grown into one strong brand-WPIL. Understanding the importance of need based operation.

WPIL now offers system engineering and complete solutions to all kinds of water and waste water handling and transportation needs

Product range of the company includes:

• Vertical Turbine Pumps
• Vertical Mixed Flow & Axial Flow Pumps
• Submersible Pumps
• Horizontal Centrifugal Pumps
• Inclined-wet-pit-pump

Milestones:

• 1952 Commenced Business Johnston Pumps India as JV of Johnston, US.
• 1982 License from Hayward Tyler, UK for Submersible Motor.
• 1983 JV with Worthington name changed -Worthington Pumsp India.
• 1990 CW Pump- 33,100 M3./Hr.,2600 KW, 500 MW NTPC Power Stn.
• 1995 Association -(Worthington-Ingersol Dresser) ends & name WPIL.
• 1997 Export Order ($1.7 Million) from Vietnam-Inclined Pump.
• 2000 Major Break through - $4.44 Mill - Four Lao PDR Pump Station.
• 2002 APGENCO - Vijaywada Thermal Power Station - CW Pump
• 2003 Turnkey contract for large CW Pump - NTPC Vindhyachal: 500MW
• 2005 Completing large turnkey project for Drainage Pumping Station in Bagjola near Kolkata comprising of 19 large Propeller Pumps
• 2006 Major sea water pumps (Duplex SS) for Saudi Arabia-JANA.
• 2007 Joint venture with Mitsubishi-Japan for contract for Concrete Volute Pumps to be supplied for Indian Project

Achievements/ recognition:

• The company has received merit certificate shield for export performance fourteen times from 1974 till date from the engineering export promotion council (Govt. of India).