UEIL Annual Congress Malta, 21-23 October 2015


This year over 200 delegates attended the 2015 UEIL Congress on the island of Malta. The Congress was opened by Fabio Dalla Giovanna, President of UEIL, who set the Congress in the context of recent events affecting the lubricant sector.


Following the theme of last year’s event in Madrid, futurologist Enno Däneke, Head of the Future-Market Centre discussed the impact of emerging social trends on the automotive and industrial landscape. Apu Gosalia, Head of Global Competitive Intelligence and Chief Sustainability Officer at FUCHS Petrolub gave an engaging presentation on Profit-Planet-People – outlining how sustainability is reshaping the lubricants sector.


Capturing value in lubricants and the flight to growth was the subject of Suzan Jagger’s presentation. Suzan, President of Jagger Advisory argued that major lubricant companies have offset the fall in the volume of their business by moving their product mix towards more higher value synthetic lubricants. Dr Jisheng E from GKN Driveline followed with a talk about recent developments in powertrain design that are having a direct impact on the form and type of economy-enhancing lubricants which OEMs will demand, both now and in the future.


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After lunch on the first day, Milind Phadke, Director of the Energy Practice at Kline Research gave an overview of the global lubricants additive market. Amadeo Giammattei from OTX Group followed with an interesting and engaging talk about the growing market for the trading of Compulsory Oil Stock tickets using an automated exchange used to match buyers with sellers.


LUBE MAGAZINE NO.130 DECEMBER 2015


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