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an international scale. Daniel travelled to Europe, and
re-introduced the family to the leading machine manu-
facturers and suppliers. He eventually arrived in Italy,
to the very same region where his father had procured
and built his own machines. He remembers calling his
father from an office in Udine, to let him know that
he had just purchased a machine and now he had no
money, to which his father simply answered “Welcome
to manufacturing.”
While Ramoutarsingh was Marketing Director, but not
yet the Chairman of Trinrico, he took a slight detour
from the family business, finding success first as an
amateur and then as a professional racing driver. At
times he would be in the car about to start a Pro Race,
while on the phone doing Trinrico business. He believes
that since Trinrico was the title sponsor of all his cars,
it gave the company more exposure. “Certainly, we got
our first supply cut and bend rebar contract because
of motorsport participation and today that’s what we
are known for most,” he says. Eventually, his ability to
understand technology and work with machines, com-
bined with a competitive mentality, steered him back
home to apply what he had learned during his years of
racing - and to fulfill his family’s destiny by taking over
his father’s dream.
He became Chairman of the Board of Trinrico Steel
and Wire Products Limited and strengthened relation-
ships with old suppliers, while seeking new ones. He
revisited the manufacturers of machines for all the
products in Trinrico’s portfolio and embarked upon
a course to uplift the moribund company. His focus,
now that he was his own primary end user of steel and
