Fig. 06 — Our Position

Consulting that ends when the plant can run it alone.

We're a small, deliberately specialised firm. Every consultant we field has spent years inside integrated steel plants, mini-mills or rolling operations before joining Cardamom Tech — running shifts, owning a P&L line, or leading a maintenance turnaround of their own.

That means we design recommendations against the constraints an operating floor actually has — crew rotations, campaign lengths, spares lead time — rather than the constraints that make a slide deck look clean. An engagement is only finished once your own team can run the improvement without us in the room.

Fig. 07 — Operating Principles

How we hold ourselves to account.

Four commitments that shape every engagement, from diagnostic to hand-back.

Principle

Floor First

Every recommendation is validated on the shift floor before it reaches a steering committee.

Principle

Owner-Ready

Numbers are costed and sourced so your CFO can defend them without translation.

Principle

Capability Transfer

We train your engineers to sustain the gain — success is measured after we leave, not before.

Principle

Plant-Specific

No standard deck. Every roadmap is built from your loss-tree, not a generic benchmark set.

Fig. 08 — Leadership

The people on site.

A senior team drawn from operations, metallurgy and reliability engineering roles across the industry.

RM

Managing Partner

Operations & Strategy

Two decades leading operational turnarounds across integrated steel plants before founding Cardamom Tech.

AK

Partner

Quality & Metallurgy

Former plant metallurgist specialising in defect elimination and process-window control.

SP

Partner

Reliability & Digital

Built maintenance and analytics functions from the ground up at two major mini-mill groups.

Fig. 09 — Track Record

How we got here.

2016

Cardamom Tech founded, with a first engagement inside a long-products mini-mill's rolling operations.

2019

Practice expanded to full-programme turnarounds spanning cost, quality and reliability together.

2022

Energy & sustainability discipline added as producers faced tightening emissions-intensity targets.

2026

Digital & analytics formalised as a standalone discipline to sustain gains after programme close.

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