The article reports about the Euroguss Fair 2008 in Nuremberg which was the ideal venue for KW Consulting Group. On this occasion, the company informed its visitors from the die casting industry of its role as an industrial branch-focussed consultancy group. 40 high-specialised industrial consultants are provided from a single source - thus, the company is presenting a potent network of experienced professionals within an extremely close-knit organisation. E.g., a client's original business plan is exceeded by a 2digit percentage by a professional interim management offered by KW Consulting Group. Thanks to KW Consulting Group's creative and innovative problem solving, the clients frequently save over 15 % of the capital injection.

If your company is also intending to improve processes, logistics, technologies, products and services, do not hesitate to contact KW Consulting Group for a professional guidance in the direction of cost, technology and innovation leadership.

The company KW Consulting Group presents itself and its business philosophy: THINKING AHEAD - DESIGNING - ASSISTING within the Indian magazine for progressive metal casters.

Do not hesitate to contact the KW Consulting Group because its aim is the improvement of the profits of their clients.

Volkswagen - Europe's biggest automobile group - has sold 1,57 million automobiles to the worldwide clientele from January to March 2008. According to VW, this was 7 % more than before the one-year period. For the first time, Germany has been outplayed by China as biggest business market.
The sales were increased by 23, 3 % in Brasil, the third biggest market of the company. In Russia and India, the group achieved high growth rates with a delivery asset of respectively more than 45 %.
The deliveries decreased by 0,7 % in the US and in Western Europe, approximately 772.000 automobiles ( VW, Audi, Skoda, Seat, Lamborghini and VW-commercial automobiles) have been delivered.
Thus, the automobile manufacturer is achieving a record turnover within the first quarter.

Romania is being favourised by Mercedes during its search for an additional production location for the follow-up generation of the A- and B-class. According to insiders, the balance tends to incline in the Romanian direction, although Poland is also being analysed as an alternative. The most current issue at Mercedes regards the decision on the future product concept and the potential locations. Labour costs of approx. 3, 23 Euro / hour speak for Romania. Poland is already as an automobile location established, whereas Romania could be especially motivated to settle this industry.

Should you also be interested in a location within Romania, then is KW Consulting Group the right partner for you, as we have accomplished the elicitation of a location within Romania for the presently biggest and most modern Aluminium foundry for motor blocks, which is still under construction.

The prices for energetical and metallic resources will be moving further on a high stage, in view of the high demand, especially within Asia's growth regions. A differentiated development is shown in detail: while the prices for crude oil are peaking further on - especially against the background of the political tensions within the Near East - a slight tension release is indicated with gas. The previous price backlogs at the important metals - aluminium and nickel - have considerably fallen below. However, there is to be counted on a price backlog for copper only within 2008. Presently, the steel prices are moving on a stable level, except stainless steel, whose prices are tending downwards.

BMW increases the pressure on the contractors in the field of acquisition management, to boost the profit margin from 8 % to about 10 %, also by the retrenchment of a total of 6 bn.Euro. The contractors are to bear the biggest part of the costs. For this, a specially new executive position has been filled by Mr Herbert Diess within BMW. Similar is heard also within Mercedes, who wants to lower the material costs by more than 2 bn.Euro within the CORE-programme until 2010.

Thereby, the pressure of the OEMs continues to increase on your contractor group. We would be pleased to assist you together with our team of specialists at the discussion regarding available potentials and their development.

The author describes the 25 % takeover deal by the French OEM, who thus continues to increase rapidly.

The author describes the drastic decline of the sales figures in case of passenger cars in Germany. In 2006, the lowest domestic value since the reunification was reached, with marginal 3, 5 million vehicles. The fact that the German automobile plants operate at their full capacity - with a production figure of 5, 7 million passenger cars - is only explainable by the sustained export. Thus, it is to be reckoned that the pressure of the motorists to shift production volumes abroad will increase, in order to thus control especially the factor costs transportation and remuneration.

In order for your company to be ideally placed in front of this strategic development, the experts of the KW Consulting Group are at your disposal at any time with individually developed strategic concepts.

The author visualizes the price pressure in the European contractor industry by means of selected component fields and outlines the expected average price reductions per year. At the top of the expected price reductions, there are especially aluminium wheels and kinematic parts in the interior with an average price decline of 4 % per year. High performance components like turbo-supercharger components come off better with an expected price decline of 1 % per year.

Benefit from your reserves by the assignment of our teams before that your company is trapped in the classic turnover reduction and the cost increase factor scissors.

From the background of the different forms of passenger cars, the author brings forward the argument of the drastic sale slumps of -8 % in the January-September 2007 time period, whereas September alone holds the negative record with -11 %. According to this, especially compact cars, luxury cars and vans with over double-digit recurrent registration numbers cannot be or are very difficult to be sold within Germany. The winners of this trend are thus especially sport cars (+ 45 %) and off-road vehicles (+4 %).
Thus, the article reflects the new lifestyle comprehension of the contemporary potential buyer structures.

The author discusses the expectations that before the second quarter in 2008, there should not be reckoned with a considerable increase in turnover in the heavy goods vehicle sector, stating as background the current recession in turnover on the US-market for heavy goods vehicles. Yield targets and alternative impulse and energy concepts are being discussed upon in the same article.

The market leader in the field of innovative heath treatment technologies Belte AG enters the field of non-automotive foundry activity by the takeover of the insolvent traditional company Huth & Gaddum. Thus, Belte AG continues to prove its loyalty to Germany as a location of industry and commerce and disposes of the production processes aluminium - sand casting, aluminium - die cast and low pressure casting - aluminium as well as heavy metal - sand casting. Thus, Belte AG is to be capable of offering besides the development of heath treatment, also the development of cast prototypes linked with innovative heath treatment an innovative material development.

The author describes that it is to be acted on the assumption that within the next 5-10 years, an increase of the plastic percentage within automobiles is to be reckoned with. This is mentioned especially by taking the background of newly developed polyamides into account, which possess stable characteristics with temperatures beyond 200°C. Thus, new compartments open up within the motor to plastic, which nowadays are not available to the manufacturer. A bigger liberty in design vis-á-vis aluminium and a weight reduction of 50 % vis-á-vis steel are expected from the development, as far as considerable cost benefits arise from a series volume of up to 100.000 vehicles per year. Meaning, that in case of market stagnancy in the automobile sector or a diminution in case of overcapacity at aluminium casting producers - which at the same time persists globally -, it is to be reckoned with further concentrations, as a result of the slumps in production quantities which are linked to this development.

The specialists of KW International will optimally work out answers to the questions: could your company be affected by these facts and how - should the case may be - can you optimally be positioned for this.

The article describes by means of selected Indian producers their approach at the purchase of German and English metal-processing and metal-manufacturing companies. Thus, the Indians buy systematically know-how and market and produce at the same time quantity in their plants. In contrast, the Chinese strategy is being presented, and its main strategic approach lies predominantly in the export.
These facts especially with the argumentation, that the production in China is considerably cheaper than in Europe.
In the end, both strategies result in the fact that the cost pressure on the companies which manufacture exclusively in Western Europe will increase considerably.

The Krapohl-Wirth Foundry Consulting GmbH - teams offer you filed methods for the development of the potentials that are present within your company.

BHP Billiton wants to take over Rio Tinto for 140 bn.US-Dollar: new world market leader in mining-commodities increased the pressure on the steel groups.

PSA announces to shorten the model development of new passenger cars to approx. 30 % from the year 2009 to only 3 years. The goal is to also reduce the fixed costs by 30 % with the help of a rapid model change, bigger construction diversities and smaller volumes.

Other OEMs will not be able to deny this development but then again the pressure on the suppliers increases in that direction, that follow-up orders must be generated more rapidly and with a simultaneous risk of losing follow-up orders.

The KW Consulting Group helps suppliers to position themselves strategically even more optimal regarding this situation. In this respect, the slogans are: cutting of the setup time to less than one hour, minimization of the inventory towards zero and paperless process regulation instrument.

The survey documents large differences in the productivity of big European passenger car plants. In compact cars, Nissan, Ford and Toyota are on leading positions in Germany and England. In case of small cars, there are Ford, Nissan and Citroen in Germany, England and France.

The KW Consulting Group helps you to equip your company in a way so that you will count Europe-widely and also globally to the leaders of your segment.

The trend towards outsourcing of the OEMs is still uninterrupted. By the year 2010, the automobile manufacturers will allocate ¾ of their automobile orders. Therewith, the outsourcing of the OEMs will increase by other 10 % to 75 % of the total volume.

The KW International optimizes your market strategy. Changes from ongoing consumers to the consumers of the future are being ideally prepared. The necessities of the future consumers are being secured by means of appropriate tools in your company, so that self-living structures can develop and advance out of it.

The author presents the competencies of the KW Consulting Group GmbH & Co KG who manages to connect foundries and full-scale industrial complexes through the approach of KNOW-HOW, DO-HOW and TO-DO in order to be able to save at least 15 % of the formation costs.

We would like to consult with you about your new building or reconstruction plans.

The author narrates of the decline of the private equity activities as a result of a credit and with it a financial crisis which are globally suggested. The author counts on further drops within the next time period. Not only the private equity societies and founds are thereof affected but especially companies which have already been taken over and have to refund within their credit lines.

The KW Consulting Group is available for affected companies for the global improvement of their solvency and of the companies' EBITs.

The author is explaining to a continuously changing culture the onward increase of the meaning of the automobile as an expression of the self-ego. He deduces the extinction of the classic medium-class and explains the increasing trend towards sports utility vehicles (SUV) and with it the increasing trend towards small series even in case of the automobile field. As a result, there are even shortened developing periods and concerning the OEMs an even quicker model change is to be countered with. This is related with the risk of each subcontractor of not being able to generate follow-up orders within global sourcing strategies during the model change.

The KW Consulting Group helps you with the ideal positioning of your company towards OEMs, TIER 1 and TIER 2.

The author explains the further upcoming investments amounting approx. € 2bn of the Norwegian conglomerate NORSK HYDRO until 2009. The goal of the group is to stabilize its current 5th place on the world scale and 3rd place in the processing field.

Should you also be interested in readjusting your company globally and strategically, then we would be pleased if you would contact Krapohl-Wirth Foundry Consulting GmbH. We would like to improve your strategy and to successfully support you within mergers & acquisitions.

The author presents the Augsburg-based KW Consulting Group in all its facets and together with the subsidiaries Krapohl-Wirth Consulting GmbH, KW Industrial Engineering GmbH and KW International. The main features of the company are: thinking ahead, configurating and accompanying.

The author presents the competencies of the KW Consulting Group GmbH & Co KG who manages to connect foundries and full-scale industrial complexes through the approach of KNOW-HOW, DO-HOW and TO-DO in order to be able to save at least 15 % of the formation costs.

We would like to consult with you about your new building or reconstruction plans.

The KS Aluminium Technology AG (ATAG) presents in its press release the implementation of the new CNC-finishing cutting for Porsche Cayenne 8-cylinder block. It is about a two storied hall with a length of 160x85 m piled in a channel. Planning, project management and realization are being successfully carried out concerning time and budget by Krapohl-Wirth Foundry Consulting GmbH.

The author presents the foundry group KW Consulting Group GmbH who operates from Augsburg and also its three partners: Dr. Hans-Peter Krapohl, Wolfgang Wirth and Andreas Veigel.

Increasing aluminium prices and new manufacturing and design possibilities help steel rims to an unexpected comeback. A nice example where product and design strongly lean against the development of the resource markets.

Don't miss any trends. KW International helps you now to powerfully position your company for tomorrow.

The author gives MAGNA as an example and explains the changed strategy of the automobile groups vis-à-vis their suppliers towards the in-house increase of the value creation account of the suppliers. The resulting serious changes for MAGNA in the area of generating follow-up orders, personnel adjustment and result are being described.

The KW Consulting Group and the KW International GmbH help you pre-emptively at the upcoming changes from outside and inside. Professional concepts make your company more crisis-proof.

The author briefly narrates the fact that in the year 2006, China - being on the overtaking lane - has for the first time produced more cars than Germany.
China:	7 million passenger cars
Germany:	6 million passenger cars
If you don't want to also be made dependent, talk to us in time. We have the right answers, strategies and visions for the future.

Automobile groups produce augmentedly on their own while more and more big assignment producers are being increasingly left behind. The report discusses the path of the OEMs in Europe and the US to smaller manufacture dimensions by means of an European assignment producer. It also shows the way for the assignment producers to niche products or alternative markets as e.g. Asia.
If you not only intend to watch this development but also to actively create it or even be a driving-force, than we would be pleased to help you in giving your company an excellent future position.

The Russian groups Rusal and Sual merge with the Swiss resource trader Glencore to the world's biggest aluminium producer.

The world's biggest aluminium producers are:
Rusal/Sual:	3,76 million tons
Alcoa:	3,55 million tons
Alcan:	3,42 million tons
BHP Billiton:	1,30 million tons

The sector expects a growth of over 27% especially in the Indian, Chinese and Eastern European markets.

The car producer and current sector ruler counts with an earning increase of over 32% compared to earlier forecasts.
Should you be interested to advance to a company of "operation excellent"-standard then don't hesitate in asking us. We will show you the way and join you on that way.

The current dispersion of the OEMs in India is being showed. Concomitant, it is being discussed over the fact that the OEMs are thinking about direct investments of approx. $ 40 bn during the next 10 years.
Should you have a strategic interest in India then don't hesitate in asking us. We would be pleased to help you in realizing your strategies or creating your on-site fabrications more profitably.

The temporary takeover of the technical management of a big iron foundry in the form of an Interim Management is being presented.

The temporary takeover of the technical management of a big iron foundry by one of our Interim Managers is being presented.

The short press release presents the construction of Germany's most modern aluminium foundry which was developed by Krapohl-Wirth Foundry Consulting GmbH in the year 2005.

The industrial metropolis Changchun plans on building a car development park with an adjacent car city.

Singapore operating company intends to buy British P&O.

The article shows fundamental steps for the considerable improvement of cost structures within measures of reorganization.

It is being showed the way how the connection to the top of the world is being maintained by investments in the high-vage country and also in case of Germany as a location for industry and commerce entrepreneurial successes are possible.

The foundation of Krapohl-Wirth Foundry Consulting GmbH in the year 2004 is being shown with a retrospective view over the year 2004 and an insight into the spectrum of performances and the dimension of the company.

The setting periods of the machines are being neglected in the most foundries even today. But precisely they contain considerable rationalization potentials which are partly deductible by means of the simplest methods.