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Valcon is a full-service provider that works at the intersection between consultancy, technology, data, advanced analytics and strategy. We have offices in the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Denmark, Sweden and Germany and nearshore locations in Croatia, Serbia and Romania. Together, we for a community helping clients across national borders. We focus on end-to-end transformations in which we create long-lasting and sustainable value together with a human approach. We know that every link matters in improving a company’s value chain. We support our clients in pursuing the right change in people, system, and process. Our involvement is based on deep knowledge and experience, working shoulder to shoulder with many different organisations. We do not blindly follow a methodology; we follow through on getting things done.

Founded in 1969, with headquarters in Holstebro, Denmark, the Faerch Group (‘Faerch’) is a leading European manufacturer of sustainable food packaging solutions within the Ready Meals, Protein, Food-to-Go and Dairy segments. With APET, CPET and MAPET®II, Faerch offer an extensive range of food packaging solutions for all relevant applications, food safe and truly circular. Faerch has taken the lead in making rigid food packaging circular with products made from up to 100% recycled content and fully recyclable to new food grade products. As an integrated recycler, Faerchs products contain market-leading levels of recycled content, and at Faerch’s tray recycling facility in the Netherlands, used food containers collected from across Europe are processed into food grade rPET at industrial scale. The material is used for the manufacture of new food packaging across Faerch’s production sites. The Group employs more than 5,400 people, spread across production sites Europe and the US.

Valcon is a full-service provider that works at the intersection between consultancy, technology, data, advanced analytics and strategy. We have offices in the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Denmark, Sweden and Germany and nearshore locations in Croatia, Serbia and Romania. Together, we for a community helping clients across national borders. We focus on end-to-end transformations in which we create long-lasting and sustainable value together with a human approach. We know that every link matters in improving a company’s value chain. We support our clients in pursuing the right change in people, system, and process. Our involvement is based on deep knowledge and experience, working shoulder to shoulder with many different organisations. We do not blindly follow a methodology; we follow through on getting things done.

At KP precision is a lifestyle. As a CNC machining sub-supplier within the metal industry we have taken up the challenge from low-wage countries and created one of Europe’s most automated process factories. Our customer group ranges from large, global industrial players to small businesses around the world. We supply machining operations for a variety of industries and co-operate with a number of foundries. Furthermore, our focus on continuous product and process development allows us to meet the needs of customers with special assignments. KP combines its many years of experience with the best technologies on the market to provide its customers with competitively priced products. We have the most advanced technologies at our disposal, which in addition to precision and quality enables us to supply products with a unique degree of complexity. This type of production demands a highly educated staff, which we have successfully employed and upgraded in line with the technological development in our company. This increases our know-how and allows us to successfully act as a sparring partner for our customers during their phases of development and production. We have considerable experience in developing logistical solutions, tailored to meet the demands of our customers. We offer to keep stock and be a just-in-time supplier, a service that is economically beneficial to our customers and enhances reliability of supply. Globally, KP has approximately 400 employees with a production running in three shifts. More than 170 high-tech CNC machining centres and CNC lathes are installed in our production facilities, which cover an area of over 21,500 m2. across USA, Denmark and Sweden.