Gandhar Oil Refinery (India) Limited is a well-known name and an established player in Specialty Oils and Lubricants industry. Their range of speciality oils and lubricants include liquid paraffin, industrial oil and greases, transformer oils, automotive lubricants, petroleum jelly and rubber processing oils which they sell under their flagship brand “Divyol”.
Established in 1992 by visionary Ramesh B. Parekh as a manufacturing and marketing of Specialty Oils & Lubricants company, today, Gandhar Oil also has a Coal Division which importsnon-coking coal from Indonesia and South Africa for supply to various domestic industries including power, steel, paper, cement etc. Gandhar Oil is also acting as a consignment stockist and Del-Credere agent for Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL) for sale of various polymer products.
For their speciality oils and lubricants products, they import raw materials i.e. base oil primarily from South Korea and Middle East, additives are procured locally from select multi-national corporations and waxes are procured locally and also imported from China and Thailand. They manufacture speciality oils and lubricants products using compositions, including those developed by their in-house research and development team. Their domestic and international customers are spread across multiple industries, including pharmaceutical, FMCG, chemicals, steel, rubber and tyre, automotive and power.
They have two manufacturing facilities situated at Silvassa in Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Taloja in Maharashtra with an annual production capacity of 128,000 KL and 104,000 KL, respectively. Their manufacturing facilities also have modern research and development centres equipped withstabinger viscometer SVM 4001, automatic mini AV instrument, automatic mini AV instrument, spectrum two FT-IR spectrometers, crank case viscometer, TNTS (Total Nitrogen, Total Sulphur), HTHS tapered bearing simulator and oil insulation test kit BDV apparatus to offer customized formulations, while ensuring quality consistency for our products. Further, their research and development centre at Silvassa facility has been recognized as in-house R&D unit by the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Ministry of Science and Technology.
