+100
Countries with operations
Transformation Agent Force Delivers €50M+ Savings
Following a strategic reset, a world-leading specialty chemicals manufacturer needed to unify its maintenance approach. Together with EFESO, the organization developed a transformation agent force and accelerate tangible benefits across multiple sites.
Chemicals
Manufacturing
Operational Excellence
People and Organization
Our Client
One of the world’s leading specialty chemicals companies, active in more than 100 countries and employing over 33,000 people. The organization operates a diverse industrial footprint, leveraging advanced technologies and production capabilities to serve global markets with complex material solutions.
+33K
Employees worldwide
The Challenge
After a strategic organizational reset, the company faced a fragmented maintenance environment with inconsistent practices and limited cross-site alignment. Although high-performing examples existed within individual facilities, they remained isolated and unshared. The organization needed to:
- Harmonize maintenance standards: Bring scattered best practices into a single, shared operating model
- Build a ONE TEAM mindset: Overcome siloed site behaviors and align maintenance goals across the network
- Improve asset reliability and maintenance cost efficiency: Create autonomous transformation infrastructure capable of delivering sustainable impacts
- Develop the right capabilities: Empower internal resources who could lead transformation, scale improvements, and accelerate benefits beyond pilot sites
The company required a scalable mechanism for capability building, knowledge sharing, and structured deployment—without relying solely on external resources.
Real Results Achieved Together
EFESO supported the client in building a self-sustaining transformation engine anchored in trained change agents, harmonized maintenance standards, and accelerated improvement deployment across selected sites.
+50
Global change agents equipped to lead maintenance transformation
€50M
Annualized benefits from full program rollout
-9%
Maintenance spend reduction in year one
Transformation Impact
- Codified and shared proven maintenance processes and standards across the network
- Empowered cross-site collaboration, improving organizational trust and transparency
- Established local infrastructures at each pilot site to drive continued improvement
- Positioned the maintenance function as a strategic enabler of long-term operational resilience
Our Approach
EFESO designed and delivered a two-phase transformation journey focused on capability building, harmonization, and rapid performance gains.
Phase 1 — Foundation and Capability Creation
• Collected maintenance best practices from 17 high-impact sites
• Identified and selected 50 change agent candidates from day one
• Established a change agent academy to provide structured, role-based training and shared methodology
Phase 2 — Deployment and Acceleration
• Conducted site-specific deep dives to diagnose gaps and build alignment
• Designed roadmaps highlighting improvement priorities and implementation paths
• Introduced a Boost approach at pilot locations to realize tangible results quickly
• Implemented local transformation infrastructures to ensure autonomy, scalability, and sustained progress
Together, these phases enabled the client to transition from isolated excellence pockets to a harmonized, network-wide improvement engine capable of delivering measurable results.
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