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Due Diligence & Value Analysis

Protect your investments and optimize your projects: Ekium audits, evaluates, and improves your industrial assets

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Acquiring an industrial site, evaluating a CAPEX investment, or optimizing an ongoing project? Ekium works with you to thoroughly audit your facilities, identify risks and opportunities, and maximize the value of your industrial projects.

From pre-acquisition technical audits to function/cost optimization during the design phase, we combine multi-disciplinary expertise (process, building, automation, energy, maintenance) and proven methodologies (FMEA, value analysis, simulation) to ensure sound decision-making and maximize your ROI.

Your challenges

  • Acquisition of industrial sites: need to assess the actual condition of assets and the necessary investments

  • Major CAPEX projects: need to secure budgets and optimize costs

  • Projects going off track: budget overruns, delays, technical non-compliance

  • Uncertain regulatory compliance: legal risks, penalties, operational shutdowns

  • Project optimization: seeking to reduce costs without compromising performance

  • Asset valuation: divestiture, merger, restructuring

Our expertise

Pre-acquisition technical due diligence

  • Facility audit: condition of equipment, buildings, utilities, and automation systems

  • Regulatory compliance assessment: ICPE, ATEX, GMP, safety, environment

  • Risk analysis: identification of critical failure points, impact assessment

  • Estimation of required investments: upgrades, compliance, modernization

  • Summary report: strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, risks, recommendations

CAPEX assessment and scenarios

  • Budget estimate: CAPEX/OPEX, accuracy ranging from +/-15% to +/-40% depending on the project phase

  • Remediation scenarios: technical-economic comparison, decision-making matrix

  • Availability risk analysis: assessment of impacts on production, security scenarios

  • Investment optimization: prioritization of expenditures, search for financing (ADEME, CEE, BPI)

Value Engineering

  • "Performance In Design" Review: Function/Cost Optimization Starting in the Design Phase

  • Functional analysis: identification of essential vs. superfluous functions

  • Search for alternative solutions: materials, equipment, processes, suppliers

  • CAPEX/OPEX Optimization: Reducing capital and operating costs without compromising performance

  • Scenario simulation: testing alternatives before making a decision (digital twin, flow simulation)

Audit of ongoing projects

  • Design review: technical consistency, interfaces between work packages, risk of deviation

  • Variance analysis: budget, scheduling, technical specifications

  • Identification of optimization opportunities: cost reduction, performance improvement, accelerated planning

  • Recommendations for corrective actions: technical trade-offs, renegotiations with suppliers

Maintenance and reliability audit

  • Equipment condition assessment: FMEA, criticality analysis, failure prediction

  • Maintenance policy audit: preventive, predictive, parts procurement strategies

  • Maintenance cost estimation: OPEX, remediation scenarios

  • Maintenance by design: recommendations to improve maintainability from the design stage

Energy and decarbonization audit

  • Energy assessment: consumption by use, identification of waste

  • Decarbonization opportunities: use of waste heat, renewable energy, energy efficiency

  • Cost savings estimates: CAPEX, OPEX, payback period, financial incentives (ADEME, CEE)

  • Regulatory compliance: regulatory energy audit, ISO 50001

CHEMISTRY

Pre-acquisition due diligence: full audit of a chemical site, identification of €8m of compliance work (negotiation of purchase price)

PHARMACIE

Value Engineering: Optimization of a pharmaceutical expansion project, 20% reduction in CAPEX (€5M) with no loss of performance

AGRI-FOOD

Drifting project audit: technical review of a food-processing project, identification of causes of drift, remediation plan, compliance with revised budget.

CHEMISTRY

CAPEX evaluation: remediation scenarios for availability risk, trade-off between repair, replacement and redundancy

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Our strengths

We combine integrated, multidisciplinary expertise—processes, equipment, buildings, automation, energy, maintenance, and compliance—with complete independence, ensuring an impartial perspective free from any conflicts of interest. Our proven methodologies—FMEA, value analysis, simulation, and benchmarking—are backed by solid cross-sector experience: chemicals, pharmaceuticals, food and beverage, oil and gas, and manufacturing. We prioritize a pragmatic approach, with actionable recommendations and rigorous prioritization based on ROI.

Finally, our network of partners gives us access to up-to-date cost databases, qualified suppliers, and specialized experts.

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