Consulting & Permitting

Improve plant performance, increase production capacity, and reduce environmental impacts.

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To meet your needs, a dedicated consulting department provides services aimed at improving industrial performance, energy efficiency, and the decarbonization of plants. We have consolidated the group’s expertise in project management—in the broadest sense—and industrial optimization under a single division.

Production Performance & Capacity Increase

Boost your productivity and reduce your costs: Ekium optimizes your industrial facilities from start to finish and increases your production capacity! Are you facing bottlenecks, capacity constraints, or recurring production losses? Ekium works with you to identify key areas for optimization, explore solutions, simulate potential gains, and implement technical solutions.

Industrial Maintenance & Reliability Strategy

Turn your maintenance into a performance driver: Ekium ensures the availability of your facilities and reduces your costs. Recurring failures, unplanned downtime, excessive spare parts inventory? Ekium supports you in increasing the reliability of your equipment, optimizing your maintenance strategies, and implementing predictive maintenance using Industry 4.0 technologies.

Logistics Performance

We help you design, implement, and organize highly efficient logistics flows and resources to achieve your goals for operational profitability and quality. Ekium transforms your intralogistics and supply chain into a competitive advantage.

Industry 5.0 / Data Driven & AI

Ekium supports you in implementing data, AI, and Industry 5.0 solutions to meet your operational needs. We help your production facilities connect their operations, organize and leverage their data, and integrate artificial intelligence to sustainably improve performance—including production, maintenance, quality, energy, and logistics.

Energy Performance & Decarbonation

Decarbonize your industry and optimize your resources: Ekium helps you achieve energy and water efficiency.

Rising energy bills, regulatory pressure on CO₂ emissions, and water restrictions during droughts.

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The future of industry is being built today: Optimization, Capacity Increase, Sobriety and Decarbonization, Industry 5.0, Data Valorization, Financing... So many areas of expertise at the heart of Performance Competitiveness. Working together, we develop pragmatic, innovative and sustainable solutions to adapt your assets to tomorrow's industrial challenges.
Denis BOUTEILLE
Head of Industrial Performance, Energy & Decarbonation

Water performance

Optimize your water resources: Ekium helps you achieve water efficiency. Rising bills, regulatory pressure, water restrictions during droughts? Our Water Performance expertise helps you reduce your water consumption and optimize your water usage (reduction, reuse, recycling).

Due Diligence & Value Analysis

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

Acquiring an industrial complex, evaluating a CAPEX investment, or optimizing an ongoing project? Ekium’s expertise in Due Diligence & Value Engineering supports you in rigorously auditing your facilities, identifying risks and opportunities, and optimizing the value of your industrial projects.

Regulatory Studies & Process Safety

In an environment marked by technological innovation and constant change, effective management of industrial risks has become a key factor for sustainability and growth. ISO Ingénierie, which has been part of Ekium’s “Consulting & Permitting” division since 2020, offers consulting services, expertise, and methodologies tailored to your specific challenges.

PMC: Assistance à Maîtrise d'Ouvrage, PMO: Project Control & Procurement

Our Project Management services address all of our clients’ needs to better manage, oversee, and execute their projects efficiently and effectively, while meeting industry challenges. Our team, comprised of experts in managing large-scale contracts, helps you secure your costs and investments.

PHARMACIE

Injectable production: complete update of the preventive maintenance database (35 GMP buildings)

AOSTE

AMR (Autonomous Mobile Robots) study for intralogistics and drafting of technical specifications

CHEMISTRY

Development of a decarbonization roadmap: identification of 30% energy savings, preparation of ADEME Decarbonization Fund application (€2M grant), ROI < 3 years

EDF

Changes in the organization of national business and project management: creation of a Project Management Office

INDUSTRY

Capacity expansion/site creation - full support from master plan to commissioning of new plant

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Innovating for performance

In the face of the challenges posed by industrial transformation, Ekium draws on its multidisciplinary expertise to anticipate the challenges of tomorrow. Our teams of engineers and project managers implement innovative solutions that span the entire industrial value chain.

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The Snef Group operates across four continents—the Americas, Europe, Africa, and Oceania—in 30 countries and 80 cities, with a network spanning more than 100 international locations.