Temporally substitution of Production Manager position to produce aluminum components and reporting to CEO in Europe
TASK INCLUDE:
Production planning: considering machine capacities, people skills and raw material sources base on production targets and sales forecast
Production control: successful implementation of production planning. It aims at completing production well in time and with lesser costs. A proper system of production control ensures continuous production, lesser work-in-progress, and minimization of waste
Automotive management standards: PPAP´s, SMED´s, Run and Rates for different new models
Quality control: coordinate with production and quality people to get required quality of the product. Controlling the negative variables which affect the ultimate quality of a product.
Method analysis: determinate alternative methods for manufacturing the products based on methods to be economical looking for minimizing the cost of production and improving productivity.
Inventory control: keep proper control over the inventory. Determinate economic order size, maximum, minimum, average, and prevent danger levels of materials so that problems of overstocking and understocking do not arise,
Plant layout: review proper arrangement for lay out changes according with new machines reception for new models considering; men, money, materials, and methods of production inside the factory. It was concerned with maximum and effective utilization of available resources at minimum operating costs.
Work measurement: follow up of production indicators and establishment of new ones per machine, operator and model, for productivity, metal recovery and cost to achieve objectives, and solve with the people any variation about it to get performance requested.
Other functions: coordination with Human Resources, Quality, Engineering, Administration as Safety Program, People Evaluations, training programs, personal rotation, meetings with customers
Client intends to make a strategic investment in an on the technological basis leading small or middle sized company with its own melting operation in-house, with the potential to grow and to globalize, regardless which aluminum cast process is used by the company, except sand casting. Nevertheless hollow casting is preferred by the client.
Forging is an alternative, but not extrusions. The client could also great with an acquired technology hub a global acting light weighting group with a minority stake and/or with a second investor. The first M&A target could be localized in any region of the world. The max revenue of app should be 1,000Mill USD.
ALUMAG® provided the client a report to introduce 14 M&A target companies in compliance with the above listed conditions. For each target the following information will has been be researched:
Estimated Enterprise Value [calculated based on its EBIT or EBITDA multiple],
Market Research: ALUMAG Foundry Forging Company Database Incl. Giga-Casting Presses
ALUMAG Foundry Forging Company Database provides a comprehensive worldwide overview of 1500 foundry, forging & die-maker companies, including Giga-Casting Presses with all their capablities.
MARKET RESEARCH / DATABASE: BENEFITS
List of foundries & forgers incl. Mega-Casting , Hyper-Casting & Giga-Casting Presses
Search & validation for M&A targets [M&A module is optional]
Target client database for pro-active sales / new market & business development
Supplier database for casting & forging & moulds by region, materials,….
MARKET RESEARCH / DATABASE – INTRODUCTION: ALUMAG® as a provider of automotive forecasting, market research and databases, offers a new market intelligence database. The database lists die casting, forgers, die-makers, Mega-Casting Hyper-Casting as well as Giga-Casting Presses / companies for strategic localization tasks. The Giga-Casting Presses & Foundry Database [FDB] was created in 2014, causally for aluminum casting entities in NA. This local nucleus quickly developed into a global approach and implementation. Today, this is the only global comprehensive foundry presses company database.
Over the recent years, ferro & iron, forging and mold / die making companies/ presses have also been added to the database as well as a special focus on Mega-Casting, Hyper-casting & Giga-Casting Presses.
MARKET RESEARCH / DATABASE: DESCRIPTION & CONTENT – FOUNDRIES:
Full address with allocated filter for regions, countries and states.
Kind of locations, OEM or TIER, Plant or HQ
Share of cast aluminum, magnesium, iron or zinc.
Clamping force range [HPDC] up-to 20NM / 20,000 tons.
Number of casting cells/ presses by clamping force ranges for HPDC [note pic below].
Further inhouse casting processes like SC, GDC, LPDC, CPC, HPDC, HOLLOW etc
Pre & post cast processes, such as in-house engineering, die / tool shop [build or repair], vacuum, HT, CNC, leakage test, impregnating [sealing], assembly, …
Industries served : Aeronautics, Automotive, Energy, General Engineering, Marine, Medical, Military.
Cast applications and products in production by 22+ predefined product groups like ICE, E-Motor, BiW,
Special focus on Mega-Casting, Hyper-Casting as well as Giga-Casting Presses.
Reference customers.
Certifications ISO 9001, ISO 14001, IATF16949.
Incorporation, employees, shareholders, revenue [USD], capacities in units / tons.
Facility List: List containing 1,360+ froundry facilities incl. the mentioned criteria by plant above.
Group Summary: 710+ group figures are summarized and calculated automatically based on the facility inputs for the 1,360+ facilities. Information available are :
Group Key figures [revenue, employees and capacity] in M&A module.
Group number of foundries by region [NA, SA, EU, Asia, China].
Group clamping force range & number of cells [HPDC] incl. dynamic graphics.
Group Pre & post cast processes [In-house engineering, tool shop [build or repair], assembly, heat treatment, CNC].
Group cast applications & products in production [22 predefined product groups].
Fact sheet: An overview of each inserted group showing all information available [Picture sample below]
MARKET RESEARCH / DATABASE: CUSTOMIZATION – ON REQUEST POSSIBLE On request ALUMAG® will complete the insertion of data for any existing or new requested database criteria into the market intelligence tool “ALUMAG Giga-Casting Presses, Forging & Foundry Database”.
With our extensive global network and comprehensive industry knowledge and knowhow, ALUMAG® is highly qualified to support global companies on cross border Mergers and Acquisitions. Depending on your inhouse resources and industry knowledge ALUMAG® is a qualified partner for any M&A localization projects or as a provider of market intelligence/ market research on which you could execute your own inhouse M&A analysis.
MARKET RESEARCH / DATABASE: PRICING
Example for a 5-years North America subscription & 1 user: 1st year = 7,740 €UR / 59,700 CN¥ / 140,000 MXN / 8,250 U$D / 1,274,000 ¥EN 2nd-5th = 2,580 €UR / 19,900 CN¥ / 46,660 MXN / 2,750 U$D / 424,800 ¥EN
EU+ [European Union plus the countries: CHE, GBR, SRB, TUR]
NA [CAN, MEX, USA]
EA [East Asia with CHN, JAP, KOR, MNG, TWN]
ROW [Rest of the World like, AUS, BRZ, IND, RUS, …, ZAF]
M&A: Prepared but blanked/unloaded “M&A module” incl spider diagrams [gathered and typed-in data by ALUMAG® on individual quoted clients demand].
ALUMAG POSTS & MARKET INFO RELATED TO GIGA-CASTING PRESSES:
OCT24 LINKED-IN POST BY JOST GAERTNER – ALUMAG CEO
The first Global GIGA-Casting Congress in Kassel on March 5th & 6th, 2025 is addressed to people from all over the world, who are interested in new GIGA-Casting developments and applications. The congress is hosted by the Chair for Foundry-Technology GTK at the University of Kassel in cooperation with ALUMAG Automotive GmbH. The congress offers an excellent opportunity for international exchange on topics relating on new GIGA-Casting technologies and strategies. Come to the first international GIGA-Casting Congress with excellent lectures from technology and strategy experts regarding the future for new automotive casting concepts and enjoy our Foundry-Evening with the wonderful atmosphere of the Alte Brüderkirche (Old Brother-Church) in Kassel !
AUG24 LINKED-IN POST BY JOST GAERTNER – ALUMAG CEO
In the middle and long run, the magnesium HPDC / die-casting components will cost less than in aluminum. The following reasons:
1. Magnesium mold / mould for the die casting / HPDC has upto 4x life time / # of shots.
2. Magnesium thixomolding will be even less expensive than thixocasting.
3. Beside thixocasting and -moulding, a third potential process is MAXImolding®.
4. China has its focus on magnesium, has produced app 1 Mill tons in 2023.
China progressively expanding its application in automotive, rail cars, 5G housings / heat sinks, ..
5. BAOWU, one of the super large steel group, has entered the market by an aquisition of five HPDC / Die Casting plants. Beside those, BAOWU owns the entire magnesium chain. According to sources, BAOWU holds or has its hand over 70% of the Chinese magnesium market
6. The USA has entered the market, too.
7. For comparatively cheap and environmentally friendly magnesium [including the draw out of further key minerals, such as lithium] from oceanwater as a by-product of the water desalination.
8. It is spoken of, in the mid run, the cost will be <1 U$D/1Kg magnesium raw materials to purchase.
Giga-Casting Presses will be one of the main equipment and process, to produce such large structural parts, beside formed sheet.
JULY24 LINKED-IN POST BY JOST GAERTNER – ALUMAG CEO
A LK 7000 tons clamping force HPDC / DCM / Megapress has been packed for its shipment to the Serbia plant. The large press will be operated by UAT [United Alloy Tech], the MINTH die casting division. Target automotive applications are HV battery trays / closures and large front and rear underbody structures.
Giga-Casting Presses will be one of the main equipment and process, to produce such large structural parts, beside formed sheet.
OCT23 LINKED-IN POST BY JOST GAERTNER – ALUMAG CEO
Lightweight construction is just one descriptive feature. Cast aluminum is much more, such as functional integration, component reduction, less effort for sealing and joining technologies, process simplification, stiffness and tightness. We will never again reach the volume of around 20 million vehicles produced in Europe, rather settling at 15 million annually, followed by less aluminum casting overall. With the reduction of PHEV market penetration, there will be a further reduction in the demand for aluminum casting, per vehicle and overall. A large number of AL cast CU and sensor housings are eliminated as they are centralized and partially replaced by plastic. BEVs have 15 to 20 kg less AL casting per vehicle due to the virtually elimination of the five- to eight-speed automatic transmissions in the powertrain alone. The growth in gigacastings and AL cast HV battery housing holders, transverse stiffeners, …., will not be able to replace the application reductions described above.
Connect with Jost GAERTNER at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jost-gaertner-482b3328/
LIKELY ALSO OF INTEREST:
Please have a look at our automotive research tool ALUMAG GLOBAL AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS DATABASE [ASDB] E.G. This database provides detailed information for each automotive application in regards to model, platform, material, process, weight etc. Listing also Giga-Casting applications.
