Industrials
Consolidating a three-plant footprint
Two plants closed with no dispute and no orders lost along the way.
Halden was running three plants at roughly half capacity each and had been for four years. Everyone accepted that one had to close. Nobody would say which, because the answer was going to be somebody's site, somebody's town and somebody's job.
We modelled every combination against demand, freight, tooling transfer and the cost of the closure itself — including the parts that never reach a spreadsheet. The recommendation went to the board together with the two options we had rejected and the reasons why.
Two plants closed over eleven months. No customer order was missed and no dispute reached a tribunal. Fixed cost fell by just under a quarter and the remaining site now runs at eighty per cent.
−23%
Fixed cost
0
Orders lost
2 of 3
Plants closed
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Three engagements where the numbers were the easy part, the decision was not, and the answer still held once the room had moved on.
Forty more engagements sit behind these six.
