INTERVIEW Q&A
Marco Digioia, President, ATIEL
You join ATIEL during a time of change for the lubricants sector, what are your key priorities for the organisation over the coming year? As a technical association, ATIEL’s aim is to ensure that the standards for lubricants are transparent for marketers, manufacturers and consumers and that they evolve successfully for increasingly advanced vehicles and equipment in the marketplace. Our key priorities are to facilitate technical improvements, to continue to maintain and improve quality in the face of future challenges, such as more stringent fuel economy and other emissions requirements, and to support the provision of quality lubricants on a global basis, working with other stakeholders, such as ACEA, ATC and UEIL.
Your predecessor Peter Tjan came from within the sector and you have experience in association management and public affairs, how will this affect your approach to the role? It is my intention to frame the challenges ATIEL will face by creating a shared vision and building consensus to achieve objectives, so that we will work on the basis of a clear and shared strategy to continue efforts to promote the lubricants industry.
What are the main technical challenges the sector faces in the future and how can ATIEL help the sector in meeting these challenges? The main challenges to the lubricants sector are regulatory ones in the areas of HSE, government championing of electrification of vehicles, circular economy and taxation. These are more areas where we work with other stakeholders to try to create value for all.
ACEA standards could mean that the market for lubricants in Europe has become less differentiated over time as all products claiming ACEA sequences are expected to perform to the same minimum standards. How can companies differentiate their offering across Europe if everyone is working to a common set of minimum standards? ATIEL has put a lot of effort into developing and raising the profile of the European
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Engine Lubricants Quality Management System (EELQMS). The other stakeholders in the scheme are ACEA and ATC, who are fully supportive of our approach. With the EELQMS logo now being available to EELQMS Letter of Conformance (LoC) signatories, and the monitoring of quality of signatories’ products in the marketplace, we are confident that this work will create value for all stakeholders. We are now extending this monitoring on a global basis in order to give consumers confidence that they can find quality products making ACEA claims for European vehicles wherever they are in the world.
ATIEL’s aim is to make the EELQMS system and logo the badge of quality in the marketplace and a distinction from other products.
How does ATIEL work with REACH? ATIEL is an ECHA accredited stakeholder, which enables us to participate in REACH developments and discussions within ECHA and also in other parts of the EC, such as recent work on poison centres. ATIEL’s HSE Committee is responsible for overall input to REACH work. There is also joint work with ATC on Generic Exposure Scenarios. We are also discussing closer cooperation with UEIL’s HSE Committee.
Will you be lobbying on behalf of the stakeholders of ATIEL and if so, what lobbying will you be doing? Working with other public and private stakeholders will be key. I am a big fan of the African proverb “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together”.
And when you are not working for ATIEL, what are your hobbies?
I have a passion for travelling and history, and I practise martial arts.
LINK
www.atiel.org
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