IMTEX 2025 Exclusive: Insights from Yatendra Kumar, Gregoire Zaugg, Lionel DANTIACQ & Jiten Goswami

Namaskar, my name is Yatendra Kumar. I'm business head for Motul Tech India Private Limited. We are Motul Group. Motul is a French-headquartered company. We have a regional office in Singapore and our Indian headquarters is based in Mumbai. We are showcasing our products and range here. Our product focus remains for metalworking fluids and greases and specialty synthetic oils. Again, a new focus that has come up in the last few years is sustainable products, which we'll discuss after some time. The industry segments focus: automotive at the basic, and secondary is aerospace. Third, the new entrant which has come to us is HVAC Industries, where a recent acquisition of Motul in the US has given value-added products for HVAC Industries. Last but not the least, Motul Group is very, very sensitive for sustainable things. We are using only metal barrels. Just to give you examples: globally, we are not using any plastic barrels for our customers. We are working a lot on sustainable solutions. We are giving our metalworking fluids, our greases, synthetic oils, slideway oils, hydraulic oil which are based from bio-source, and we are helping our customers to reach their carbon footprint and make them successful to control the carbon footprint over the years. Thank you.

Good morning. My name is Cog, I'm the Chairman of Motul Asia Pacific. Very glad to be at InTech today and meeting everyone. The Indian market is critical for us. It's already actually the largest market for Motul globally for the automotive sectors. We have been in India already for a few years for the specialty segment with Motul Tech, yet it has to be further developed. India for Motul is critical. It's already the largest market for the automotive sectors. Currently, India is experiencing a rapid development and, in fact, industrial revolution, so it is critical for the Motul Group to be present for its specialty business. Therefore, it's our ambition as well to offer and to bring in the Indian market new technology, new formulations, new applications as well for all types of metalworking applications. Okay, thank you.

Yeah, I am Jayen Goswami. I happen to be the Chairman of Motul India, and I also happen to be the Director of Motul Tech India. I happened to be on the board of Castrol India many years ago, and I have been the founding chairman, founding director of Motul India for the last more than 20 years. Motul in India has two businesses: one is the automotive business and one is the industrial business. In the automotive business, we are the fastest-growing lubricants company in our country, and we are premium. We deal mostly with the synthetic lubricants, and ester is our core technology. We are a specialist lubricants company and one of the fastest-growing in our country. Very premium, very special. And the same thing applies to Motul Tech India, which deals with the industrial business. And again, in industrial, we are the specialist company. We have got collaborations with our group companies all over the world. In Italy, we are collaborating with Baraldi and dealing mainly with aluminum extrusion, which is again a fast-growing business for us. We are also collaborating with Chem Arrow business in the USA, and again a specialist company dealing with HBSC in India. And we in India have been focusing mainly on the metalworking fluids, neat cutting oils as well as soluble cutting oils, as the businesses are progressing very well. Thank you.