The floor price of the stake sale to institutional investors by Timken Singapore is set at 3,000 rupees a share, a 14% discount to Monday's closing level. BofA Securities is the sole bookrunner for the stake sale.

Timken Singapore owned a 67.8% stake in the Indian unit as of March 31, according to exchange data.

Shares of Timken India have risen over 12% so far this year.

(Reporting by Varun Vyas in Bengaluru and Scott Murdoch in Hong Kong; Editing by Nivedita Bhattacharjee)

By Scott Murdoch