The industrial map between Europe and Latin America is being redrawn.
Nearshoring, supply-chain resilience, and cross-border cost and risk realignment are forcing manufacturers to reconsider where and how they produce. Catalyst advises on capacity, location, plant and network configuration, and the investment case behind each decision — grounded in rigorous, fact-based analysis and AI-enabled decision support.
A boutique advisory firm built across two industrial regions.
Specialized by design. Cross-regional by structure.
Established 2022Catalyst is an industrial footprint strategy and asset optimization firm, founded in 2022, advising manufacturers on where to locate, how to configure, and when to consolidate, expand or relocate their production assets and networks.
We are built to operate across Europe and Latin America — not one region advising on the other from a distance, but a single team that understands both industrial ecosystems from the inside.
Our work combines rigorous economic evaluation of industrial alternatives with disciplined, hands-on execution, supporting capital decisions and operational transformation with fact-based, quantified analysis.
We operate through a flexible model — strategic advisory, project-based mandates, and selective executive collaboration — deliberately small and senior.
Where we create value
Specialized expertise across the full footprint design and asset optimization agenda.
Capacity Analysis
Assessment of current and future capacity to size, balance and align industrial assets with demand.
Location Strategy
Determining where operations should sit — weighing cost, market access, talent, risk and logistics.
Plant & Network Configuration
Configuring plants and production networks to optimize flow, cost and resilience across the footprint.
Consolidation, Expansion & Relocation
Scenario modeling to consolidate, expand or relocate industrial operations and assets.
Investment Decision Support
Economic evaluation of industrial alternatives to inform capital allocation and investment decisions.
Operational Transformation
Translating footprint decisions into executable transformation of assets, capabilities and performance.
Advanced Analytics & AI
Scenario modeling, data-driven decision support and AI-enabled analysis for network and footprint optimization.
An integrated approach — not siloed services.
Every mandate draws on the relevant capabilities based on the client's specific challenge.
One practice, three strategic pillars
Industrial footprint strategy remains the problem we solve. Advanced analytics and AI are how we raise the quality and speed of every decision.
What we solve
Industrial Footprint Strategy
Footprint design, plant location, capacity allocation, consolidation, expansion, relocation and production network configuration.
Where we create value
Asset & Network Optimization
Utilization, asset configuration, capacity optimization, investment alternatives, network economics and industrial performance.
How we improve decisions
Advanced Analytics & AI
Scenario modeling, data-driven decision support, AI-enabled analysis, simulation, pattern detection and evaluation of complex industrial alternatives.
AI-Enabled Industrial Decision Making
We combine industrial expertise, advanced analytics and AI-enabled tools to evaluate footprint scenarios, capacity alternatives, network configurations and investment decisions — bringing rigor and speed to complex industrial choices.
- Compare industrial footprint scenarios
- Evaluate capacity and utilization alternatives
- Model plant and network configurations
- Support investment and consolidation decisions
- Identify operational and economic trade-offs
- Accelerate scenario analysis and executive decisions
Strategic perspective. Disciplined execution.
Selective mandates
We take on a limited number of mandates each year, where senior judgment and execution discipline matter most.
Cross-regional by design
Native presence and perspective across Europe and Latin America, not remote coverage of one region from the other.
Hands-on advisory
We combine strategic analysis with the operational and industrial realities of the plant floor.
Measurable outcomes
Our work is oriented toward capital efficiency, executable decisions and concrete business results.
Senior peers, not a pyramid.
Principals lead every engagement directly, supported by a selected advisory network.
A senior manufacturing and operations executive with 25 years leading industrial businesses across Latin America, North America and Europe, including multi-billion P&L responsibility and large-scale plant-network transformations. He advises on capacity strategy, network configuration and operational transformation, with a perspective built from direct experience on the plant floor.
A background in client relations and commercial strategy across industrial and cross-border markets, structuring the commercial relationships of advisory and professional-services work operating between Europe and Latin America.
A selected advisory network
Senior advisors who extend the firm's reach across specialized domains.
Planning, coordination and execution improvement across complex supply chain environments.
Operational improvement, governance, execution discipline and performance transformation.
Market development, business expansion and execution across Latin American environments.
Substance, quantified.
A view of the scope behind our work and a selection of anonymized engagements.
30+
Industrial footprint mandates since 2022
6
Countries covered across Europe and Latin America
€180M+
In capital decisions advised
40+
Plants analyzed in network studies
Multi-plant network reconfiguration
An 18% reduction in delivered cost for a global industrial manufacturer through the reconfiguration of a four-plant network across Mexico and Brazil.
Manufacturing consolidation
Consolidation of six plants into three for a multinational durable-goods manufacturer, preserving 94% of productive capacity while reducing fixed network cost by 22%.
Nearshoring assessment
Support for a manufacturer's relocation decision toward North America, cutting logistics transit time by 35% and delivered cost by 12%.
Capacity-expansion investment case
Analysis and structuring of the investment case for a €150M capacity expansion across two countries, delivered in under eight weeks.
Why Europe and Latin America — together.
Industrial competitiveness increasingly depends on how the two regions connect: European engineering, standards and capital on one side; Latin American manufacturing capacity, cost position and proximity to the Americas on the other.
Catalyst is deliberately built to sit across that axis. We understand both industrial ecosystems from the inside — regulatory context, labor and logistics realities, and the commercial culture of each — so cross-border footprint decisions are made with full command of both ends, not assumptions about one.
Native to both ecosystems
Senior experience earned inside industrial operations in Europe and Latin America, not advising on one from the other.
Built for cross-border decisions
Capacity, location and network questions that span the two regions are our core, not an edge case.
The connective tissue
We translate between two industrial cultures — engineering rigor and operational pragmatism — so decisions hold on both sides.
Begin with the right conversation.
We work with a limited number of mandates each year. If your organization is weighing footprint decisions — capacity, plant and network configuration, location strategy, consolidation, expansion, relocation, or the investment case behind them — we welcome a confidential, initial conversation.
Engagements are selective and taken on where senior judgment can make a decisive difference.
Europe & Latin America
Cross-border, without a single home market.
Confidentiality & data protection: all information shared with Catalyst is treated in strict confidence and used solely to evaluate a potential engagement, in line with our privacy policy.