As a pilot for the establishment of a modern enterprise system by the State Council, the first batch was restructured into wholly state-owned enterprises authorized by the government; it is one of the six large state-owned asset authorized management groups in Hangzhou. It is one of China's top 500 largest enterprises, one of China's top 500 manufacturing companies, one of China's top 100 competitiveness, a national model enterprise for creating harmonious labor relations, and China's top 100 machinery companies ranked 19th. The group is the leader in China's steam turbine industry.

The explosion accident of horizontal oil fired boiler occurred during the thermal commissioning of steam turbine with superheated steam. The steam turbine has to go through a lot of repeated tests before its delivery. The requirements for steam boiler are very high. KLD provides a set of high-pressure superheated steam system. The biggest feature of this system is that it can provide high-pressure superheated steam or saturated steam within 10 minutes to meet different requirements of steam turbine test bench.