OUR STORY

We started in 1984 solving a
packaging problem no one
else in India could solve.

Forty years and 600+ brands later, we're still in the same business.
Solving packaging problems that don't have an off-the-shelf answer
— and building the systems that deliver them, can after can, for a
decade at a time.

1984
FOUNDED · MATHURA
2nd
GENERATION · RUNNING TODAY
600+
BRANDS SERVED
🛡️ ISO 9001 Certified
⭐ OFB Defence Approved
🚀 ISRO Approved Vendor
WHY BRANDS CHOOSE MOTI

Three reasons. In the order they matter.

Most of our clients didn't come to us with a specification. They came with a problem. This is what happens after.

01 · WHY BRANDS COME TO US

Because someone told them we'd solve what others couldn't.

A lot of our business still arrives by word of mouth. Brand teams hear a story from a peer — "Moti figured out the barrier", "Moti held the quality when we scaled" — and they pick up the phone. What keeps the stories going is simple: we take on packaging problems that don't have an off-the-shelf answer, and we invest real engineering effort from the first conversation — through development orders that let both sides validate the solution before scaling.

Technical depth across paper, foil, PET, metallised films and closures
Structured development orders — solve at sample scale, prove the solution, then scale with confidence
Forty-plus years of goodwill in the composite can category in India
Engineering-led conversations from the first meeting
02 · WHY BRANDS STAY WITH US

Because the systems deliver, month after month, for a decade at a time.

Solving the first problem is what gets us in the door. What keeps us there for five, ten, fifteen years is different. It's the quality landing consistently. It's the delivery arriving when it's supposed to. It's the incremental improvements we build into the product as we learn more about how it moves through their supply chain. We don't stay because of one breakthrough. We stay because we've built the systems for the breakthrough to keep repeating.

Consistent quality held to agreed spec, batch after batch
On-time delivery tracked and reviewed at the system level
Continuous improvement loops built into every long-running client
Documented processes — not founder memory — running the floor
03 · WHY BRANDS SCALE WITH US

Because the team handles the day-to-day. The founders are here for the direction.

Moti is a family-founded business, but it isn't a founder-dependent business. On any given day, the person solving your problem is more likely to be from our operations, quality, or client services team than it is to be one of us. That's by design. We've spent years building a team whose skill depth means customers aren't waiting for a founder to return a call. The three of us set direction, handle the judgement calls, and stay close to the important accounts — but the system that delivers is the team. If you're planning to grow with a supplier for the next ten years, that distinction matters more than almost anything else.

Dedicated client services contact for every active account
In-house technical, quality, and production leadership
Founders present for strategy, escalation, and judgement calls
No single-point-of-failure in the working relationship
THE 1984 ORIGIN

It began with one customer,
one impossible brief, and a
founder who took it.

In 1984, Motilal Pesticides — the family's larger enterprise at the time — had a problem. Their Japanese collaborator, Nippon Soda, was supplying Topsin M under a strict mandate: the packaging had to be destructible. Pesticide containers couldn't be reused or casually discarded. They had to be designed to die with the product.

No one in India was making packaging like that.

Sanjay Goyal — fresh from his MBA, looking to start a venture of his own while the family's pesticides business was already fully staffed — took the problem. He set up a composite can unit in Mathura, the family's home town, and established Moti Containers Pvt Ltd — building India's first destructible composite cans for pesticide dispatch. Six thousand pieces a day, for captive consumption.

That's how Moti began. Not from a business plan — from
a real customer with a real constraint, and a founder
who decided packaging was a craft worth building a life
around.

The pesticide order eventually stabilised. Sanjay-ji kept going. Other customers came. By 1989, the business had grown enough to incorporate a separate entity — Moti Packaging Industries Pvt Ltd, registered in Delhi. Forty years later, we're still doing the same thing we did in 1984 — just for 600 brands instead of one.

Archive image — original Mathura unit or first composite can sample IMG 2
Archive image — original Mathura unit
or first composite can sample
Phase 2 · Reserved

The longer family story — "The Shorawalas" · 1879 onwards

The Goyal family — known locally in Mathura as "The Shorawalas" — has been in business since 1879: metal foundry, mouldings, saltpeter (potassium nitrate), strategic materials supply during the World War II era, and the pesticides business that eventually gave birth to Moti. This section is deliberately held back until verifiable archive material is assembled. A thin heritage claim weakens a strong 1984 origin story. A proven one makes it unassailable. Insertion point: between SEC 4 (1984 Origin) and SEC 6 (Timeline).

FORTY YEARS · MILESTONE BY MILESTONE

How the business grew.

From one captive customer in Mathura to 600+ brands across India and beyond.

1984

Moti Containers Pvt Ltd founded in Mathura

Sanjay Goyal establishes the company as an ancillary to Motilal Pesticides. First product: destructible composite cans for Nippon Soda’s Topsin M — 6,000 pieces per day, captive consumption.

1986

First third-party FMCG client · In-house component manufacturing

Moti Containers acquires its first external FMCG client — the moment the business stops being a captive unit. First mechanical stamping press installed; bottom ends and components brought in-house, previously outsourced.

1989

Moti Packaging Industries Pvt Ltd incorporated, Delhi

The business outgrows its captive origins. A separate entity is registered to serve external clients and expand commercially. Operations begin from rented premises in Delhi.

1992

Entry into liquor & premium gifting

Category expansion beyond pesticides and general FMCG into the premium segments that would become one of Moti’s core verticals.

2005

ISO 9001 certification

Quality systems formalised. The moment “we run on systems, not memory” became verifiable and auditable.

2007

Plastic closures business established

In-house plastic closure manufacturing begins — vertical integration of a critical component that was previously externally sourced.

2009

Sankalp Goyal joins · South India factory launched

Second-generation entry. Sankalp sets up a composite can manufacturing facility in Hosur, Tamil Nadu — Moti’s first operation outside North India.

2015

Siddhant Goyal joins · 20,000 sq ft facility added

Second brother joins the business. Finance, HR, and brand functions formalised. Manufacturing footprint expanded by 20,000 sq ft. Closures manufacturing and silicone sealant cartridge production launched.

2021

Greater Noida · Self-owned facility · 500+ brands

Operations shift to a self-owned premises in Greater Noida — a milestone in the company’s infrastructure independence. 500 brands served crossed in the same year.

2022

OFB approval · Defence manufacturing premises added

Ordnance Factory Board defence-grade approval received. Dedicated premises added for defence manufacturing, sheet metal coating, and print. Composite can factory relocated from Hosur to Coimbatore.

2023

ISRO approval · Third premises added

ISRO approved vendor status achieved — aerospace-grade credentials established. Third operational premises added to the manufacturing network.

2024

40 years · 600+ brands · 50 lakh cans/month

Where we are today. Five product formats, twelve closure combinations, diameter range 17–250 mm, and a team that runs the floor like clockwork.

THE PEOPLE YOU'LL MEET

Three people. One business. Still run by
the family.

Sanjay Goyal Founder Portrait IMG 3
Sanjay Goyal · Founder
Portrait

Sanjay Goyal

FOUNDER

Sanjay-ji started Moti in 1984 to solve one customer's packaging problem. Four decades on, he's still on the floor most days, still in every major decision, and still the first person clients ask for when something difficult lands on the table.

Trained in commerce and business (B.Sc. + MBA*), he is a Rotarian of thirty years' standing and is as well known in Mathura for the Shorawala family's civic institutions — Braj Kala Kendra, the Netra Chikitsalaya, the school — as for the factory he runs. Clients tend to meet him once and remember him.

“Every problem has a solution. The only question is whether you're willing to sit with it long enough.”
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Sankalp Goyal · Operations & Quality
Portrait

Sankalp Goyal

OPERATIONS · CLIENT PARTNERSHIPS ·
QUALITY

Engineer by training — BITS Pilani (Dubai campus), then King's College London. Early career in pharmaceutical research in London — working on inhaler development for a major pharma company — and industrial systems integration in Dubai, before returning to join the family business.

Today he runs Moti's client relationships, quality systems, and operational backbone. He's a member of Business Coaching India and a systems-thinker by temperament — convinced that Indian packaging is entering its moment, and the manufacturers who win will be the ones who treat systems, not price, as the real product.

“The product you hold in your hand is the easy part. The system that makes it consistent, month after month, is the real craft.”
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Siddhant Goyal · Finance, HR & Brand
Portrait

Siddhant Goyal

FINANCE · HR · BRAND

A numbers person since childhood. Bachelor's in Financial Administration (Amity University), followed by a BFIA from the Arun Jaitley Institute, Faridabad. Before joining Moti in 2015, Siddhant spent several years across investment and brokerage firms, valuing companies and building portfolios for clients — work he still teaches publicly through an investor-education YouTube channel for students.

At Moti, he brings that same analytical rigour to finance, HR, and brand. A member of Business Coaching India alongside Sankalp, he reads a balance sheet like a pattern — which has made Moti's financial discipline and people systems a quiet competitive advantage most clients never see, but every long-term client benefits from.

“The numbers tell you what happened. The systems you build tell you what's coming next.”

“The three of us set direction. The team runs the business.
That's by design.”

Full team photograph — Moti Packaging Mathura IMG 6
Full team photograph — Moti Packaging · Mathura
BEYOND THE BUSINESS

Rooted in Mathura. For longer
than the business.

The Goyal family — known locally as "The Shorawalas" — has been part of Mathura's civic life for generations. These are some of the institutions the family has helped build or continues to support. They matter to the people running Moti — and they quietly matter to customers, too. They're the reason the business isn't going anywhere.

🎭

Braj Kala Kendra

A cultural awareness organisation in Mathura, and the charitable auditorium built under its umbrella — a home for local performing arts and community events, on land donated by the family.

👁️

Raman Lal Moti Lal Netra Chikitsalaya

Eye hospital serving the Mathura region, established under the Shorawala family’s charitable trust.

🏫

Raman Lal Shorawala Public School

A school founded by the family, serving the local community in Mathura.

🤝

Rotary · 30+ years

Sanjay Goyal has been an active Rotarian for over three decades, involved in community service across Mathura.

Braj Kala Kendra · Shorawala family institution IMG 7
Braj Kala Kendra · Shorawala family institution

If our story makes sense to you, let's talk about
yours.

Book a 30-minute consultation. Bring your product, your current packaging, or just the problem you're trying to solve. We'll tell you honestly whether composite cans are the right answer — and if they are, what it would take to make them work for you.

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SG

Sankalp Goyal

Second-generation · Operations & Client Partnerships