| 1949 - Company incorporated on 30-7-1949. |
| 1950 - Ring machining facilities installed. |
| 1951 - Foundry for ferrous castings setup. Piston machining facilities installed. |
| 1960 - Linear machining facilities installed. Gudgeon pin heat treatment facility installed. |
| 1961 - First expansion: aluminium foundry, chrome plating. |
| 1967 - Second expansion: forged pistons, alfin pistons, piston castings epxported to UK, chrome plated conformable oil rings. Export to central Europe. |
| 1986 - Piston plant at MM Nagar established. |
| 1991 - Promoted IP Rings for steel ring manufacture. |
| 1993 - Set up AEIP precision products - a 100% EOU. |
| 1997 - Ring production Unit II facility installed. |
| 1998 - Set up Ring blank unit at Sengundram. |
| 1999 - Golden jubilee year. |
| 2003 - Sembiam manufacturing facility is certified for TS 16949:2002, and 16949:2009 in the following year. |
| 2004 - Set up India's fully automated production line for supply of pistons to Hyundai Motors. |
| 2005 - First Indian company to develop and produce oil gallery (salt core) pistons for Euro 3 application. |
| 2006 - Ring Blank Unit at Sengundram was certified for OHSAS 18001. Received Foundry Men Award. |
| 2007 - India Pistons Ltd enters into a joint venture agreement with Mahle GMBH, with a facility in MM Nagar called Mahle-IPL specifically to cater to on-highway OEM Pistons. |
| 2007 - Developed Moly Chrome Ceramic coated rings (MCC) indigenously. |
| 2007 - Sembiam manufacturing facility is certified for ISO 14001:2004. |
| 2009 - A new manufacturing facility is set up at Rudrapur for piston assembly & cylinder liner production operation. |
| 2010 - The company acquired land in Ankleshwar, Gujarat to further expand its capacity. |
| 2011 - Expanded its MCC, chrome plating & developed Nano Diamond Coating (NDC) to enhance its composite coating capability & capacity. |
| 2011 - IPL acquired a cylinder liner facility and rechristens it IPL Engine Components Private Ltd (IPL-ECPL), with a capacity of 1.2 million liners per annum. |
| 2012 - Commissioned a new piston manufacturing facility at MM Nagar as part of IPL's piston expansion program. |
| 2012 - Expansion of piston rings capacity at Sengundaram to complement capacities at Sembiam. |