Doubling your production capacity without building a new site

When demand exceeds what a plant can produce, the reflex is to expand or build new. An industrial assessment often shows the opposite: part of the missing capacity is already there, blocked by flow organization rather than by machines. Here is the case of a mid-sized company in plant breeding that wanted to double its internal production capacity — and what an assessment revealed before any investment.

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Thermal equipment — brazed heat exchangers

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Fast-growing mid-sized industrial company: business doubled in 4 years

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Validate the layout choices for a new unit before committing to a €30–40M investment

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