euro adhoc: KSB AG / Interim Announcement

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11.05.2007

Interim report on the first quarter of 2007

KSB Group remains on course for growth

The positive trend in demand for pumps, valves and related systems has continued
in the current year. In the first three months of 2007 the most im-portant
stimulus for the KSB business came from industry and the energy, mining and
waste water sectors.

KSB Group 01-03/2007 01-03/2006 Change
Order intake EUR million 556.5 467.5 + 19.0 %
Sales revenue EUR million 412.0 362.1 + 13.8 %
Employees (31 March) 13,579 12,843 + 5.7 %

Order intake and sales revenue development

Order intake in the Group grew by 19.0 percent during the first quarter of 2007
compared with the same period last year. KSB Group companies again posted
double-digit growth in all four Regions - Europe, Middle East / Africa, Asia /
Pacific and the Americas. With a 45 percent growth, the order growth achieved by
KSB companies in Asia is especially outstanding. In terms of volume, however,
the strongest increase was reported by KSB companies in Europe; the parent
company KSB AG improved its order intake over the same quarter last year by 17.0
percent.

Over the same period, the Group increased its sales revenue by 13.8 per-cent,
the greatest volume growth again being reported in the European com-panies. KSB
AG increased its sales revenue by 14.2 percent.

A point that has to be taken into account is the first-time consolidation of
four small KSB companies in the Group on 1 January 2007, namely in Belgium,
Brazil, Dubai and Thailand. Without these first-time consolidations, the
in-crease in the order intake would have been 17.2 percent and sales revenue
growth 11.7 percent.
Change in number of employees

The integration of these four KSB companies in the Group has also had an impact
on the number of employees in the Group. On 31 March, this number had increased
by 736 to 13,579 compared with the same time in the previous year. Of these
employees, 359 belonged to the newly consolidated compa-nies. In addition, KSB
companies in Brazil, the USA and South Africa have increased their staff levels
to cope with the rising volume of orders. This applies equally to KSB AG, which
appointed all its apprentices and trainees to permanent positions and has
recruited further new people in the current year.

New KSB company in South Africa

To develop the business in South Africa, KSB increased its financial com-mitment
in the country in February of this year and acquired its former joint venture
partner´s fifty percent share in KSB Pumps (S.A.) (Pty.) Ltd., Ger-miston. KSB
has now transferred the operative business of KSB Pumps (S.A.) (Pty.) Ltd. to a
newly established subsidiary of that company, Ger-miston-based KSB Pumps and
Valves (Pty) Ltd. KSB holds 74.9 percent of the subsidiary´s share capital. The
remaining 25.1 percent have been acquired by a South-African financial investor.

Earnings and financial position

Earnings showed a further positive trend. Both in the Group and in KSB AG, the
results in the first quarter clearly exceeded the previous year´s level. The
financial position has also further improved compared with the year-end figure
for 2006.

Frankenthal, 11 May 2007

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end of announcement euro adhoc 11.05.2007 10:40:42
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emitter: KSB AG
Johann-Klein-Str. 9
D-67227 Frankenthal
phone: +49 (0)6233 86 0
FAX: +49 (0)6233 86 3401
mail: info@ksb.com
WWW: http://www.ksb.com
sector: Machine Manufacturing
ISIN: DE0006292006, DE0006292030
indexes: CDAX
stockmarkets: free trade: Börse Berlin-Bremen, Hamburger Wertpapierbörse,
Baden-Württembergische Wertpapierbörse, official dealing/general
standard: Frankfurter Wertpapierbörse, official dealing: Börse
Düsseldorf
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