Castrol India
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Castrol India is an automotive and industrial lubricant manufacturing company. Castrol India is the 2nd largest manufacturer of automotive and industrial lubricants in the Indian lubricant market and owns around 22% market share in the overall Indian lubricant market. Its part of Castrol
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Castrol is a brand of industrial and automotive lubricants which is applied to a large range of oils, greases and similar products for most lubrication applications...

 Limited UK (part of BP
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 Group). It has 5 manufacturing plants that are networked with 270 distributors, serving over 70,000 retail outlets.

History

In 1910, Castrol India started importing certain automotive lubricants from C C Wakefield & Company made an entry in the Indian market. In 1979, CIL was incorporated under the name of Indrol Lubricants and Specialities Pvt Ltd. In was listed on BSE
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in 1982 and CIL was converted into a public limited company. CIL had formed a subsidiary Company in the year 1987 under the name of Indtech Speciality Chemicals, Ltd.

On 1 November 1990, The name of the company was changed from Indrol Lubricants & Specialities Ltd. to Castrol India Ltd. It helped to manufacture of Telephone cable jellies, pharmaceuticals jellies and industrial waxes in technical collaboration with Dussek Campbell, U.K.

Products

  • Industrial - Castrol metalworking fluids, cleaners, corrosion preventives and lubricants.
  • Oils - Cylinder oils-crosshead, crancase oils-crosshead, truck piston engine oils, hydraulic oils,gear oils, compressor oils, turbine oils, refrigeration oils, emulsifiable oils, multi-grades, heat transfer oils, greases, and fishing

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