
Josef Angeli
Founder and Managing Director
More about Josef AngeliFounded in Austria in 2005, now headquartered in Düsseldorf – owner-managed, independent and on the side of plant operators for two decades.
ep-cm has been owner-managed since it was founded in 2005: the owners run the company themselves.
That is why commitments hold for years, decisions are made quickly – and anyone who plans with us today works with the same people in the next shutdown.
We do not belong to any group with executing trades. Our recommendation is therefore based on what benefits the project – and nothing else.
We know how hard it is to find partners who are as passionate about your challenges as you are. That is exactly the partner we want to be.Marco Angeli · Managing Partner
Managing directors and heads of department. From the start, you know who is steering your project – with a name, a face and an area of responsibility.

Founder and Managing Director
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Managing Partner
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Head of HR & Staffing
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Head of Consulting
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Head of Engineering
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Head of Turnarounds
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Head of Project Controls
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Four sentences that apply in our daily work – not four words on the wall.
Open communication with clients and within our own team – even when the news is uncomfortable. A schedule that has been made to look better than it is helps nobody.
A promise is a promise. In our service packages we stand by the result – and we say no when we cannot do something.
Well-established teams are the core of every project. Whoever plans with us today works with the same people in the next shutdown.
We think in decades. That applies to decisions within our own company as much as to our customers’ plants.
2005
ep-cm starts out in refining – with the aim of making turnarounds and projects predictable.
Refining & Fuelsfrom 2012
Experience grows in petrochemicals, chemicals, pharma, crop science and energy. The specialist becomes a partner to the entire process industry.
All industriesfrom 2014
Hundreds of projects turn into methods of our own: TAR-Check, SMI, Project Controls on demand, Onboarding Excellence and DICTUM – experience that becomes repeatable.
Our tools2015
There is no vocational training for what we do. That is why we found the ep-cm Academy in Gelsenkirchen and have trained our people ourselves ever since – as needed, above all new talent.
ep-cm Academysince 2022
Wind, photovoltaics, battery storage and grid expansion are added – an asset base with its own logic, and with it transmission system operators and project developers as clients. The method stays the same; what sets the pace is different.
Energy Transition & InfrastructureToday
More than 400 turnarounds and projects, assignments across Europe and beyond – and a team that is helping to shape the transformation of industry.
Clients and projectsClose to the industrial regions where our clients are based – we work wherever the plant is.
Germany
5 locations
Austria
1 location
Romania
1 location
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Since May 2025, ep-cm has had an office in Merseburg – a few kilometres from the Leuna works, where Josef Angeli managed his first major project in 1977.
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