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Management Consulting and Factory Planning for Your Foundry: Krapohl-Wirth Brings Your Ideas to Life

Does your new production setup fit into your existing facilities?

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Whether it's a new foundry setup or the optimization of existing production areas and equipment, successful industrialization requires professional planning and execution.

Krapohl-Wirth supports you from the initial concept to final implementation, ensuring that your vision becomes a reality.

Our Offering for Your Future

  • 3D Modeling and Planning Creation of a realistic representation of your new facility

  • Project Support from Ground Up: From strategic concept to realization - we navigate you through your future foundry.

Our Expertise – Your Success!

Foundry Setup: Greenfield & Brownfield

  • Feasibility Study: Evaluation of the most cost-effective approach to achieve your strategic growth objectives, including scenario analysis.
  • Site Selection: Identification of the optimal location, considering factors such as energy costs, transportation, raw material access, workforce availability, and market conditions and inventive negotiations.
  • Layout and Design: Development of the most efficient plant layout to ensure seamless material and product flow, while considering ergonomics, safety, and workplace flexibility. From conceptual layouts to comprehensive 3D modeling.

  • Machinery and Equipment Specification: Selection and specification of suitable machinery and systems to meet production and product requirements, incorporating the latest technological trends, standards and automation strategies.
  • Logistics and Material Flow: Development of efficient logistics and material flow concepts to optimize supply chains, integrating storage, transportation and shipping processes into a seamless overall system.

  • Environmental Considerations: Krapohl-Wirth integrates environmental factors into every aspect of factory planning to develop sustainable and resource-efficient production processes.

  • Investment and Operating Cost Analysis: Assessment of capital expenditures for factory construction and ongoing operating costs to determine the most economical solution, including cost-benefit analysis to ensure profitability.

  • Flexibility and Adaptability: In factory planning, flexibility is crucial. Our approach ensures that facilities and production technologies can adapt to changing market demands, variable customer requirements and evolving production conditions.

Project Implementation

Beyond planning and executing factory, concept, and equipment designs, Krapohl-Wirth supports the industrialization of complete Greenfield and Brownfield projects. This includes mold and tooling design, casting and solidification simulations and comprehensive process development until full-scale production.

To ensure success, experienced managers take on leadership roles within organizations, overseeing operations and personnel development.

Krapohl-Wirth believes that a new factory only becomes a successful foundry when skilled operators and workers are fully integrated and have gained experience with equipment, processes and products. Our in-house experts support workforce development and training, guiding our clients through industrialization and ramp-up until serial production is achieved.


Decarbonization and Retrofit

Krapohl-Wirth develops efficient solutions for a low-carbon future. This includes:

  • Transitioning from cupola furnaces to electric melting technologies

  • High-performance waste heat recovery systems

  • Energy-efficient drive technologies

Set new industry benchmarks with us from sustainable concepts to the seamless execution of your foundry projects!

Get expert advice from Krapohl-Wirth today.

Company Info

Krapohl-Wirth Consulting GmbH

Im Pfeiferle 6
DE-86477 Adelsried
Germany

Telephone: +49 8294 511 5865

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