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Energy costs are always an important item in the cost structure in our company

because high percentage of these costs is included in the final product price. Following

the energy market in the past couple of years, energy prices have grown. For this

reason, control of consumed energy is very important to us in “Kadino Industry”,

because this would significantly reduce costs.

It is true that through USAID we have installed an energy consumption management

system, which means that through the system we monitor and have an overview of

the consumed energy in our company, which further on provides us with an insight

into the potential points of intervention in order to reduce the costs for this purpose.

The system provides an overview of consumed energy in the entire company which

is divided into sectors. The system monitors each sector separately and provides

the current, hourly, daily or monthly, annual condition of the consumption in Todor Gjorgjevski,
KW/h. With this system we have information about the points of highest energy CEO of Kadino Industry
consumption at any time and it enables us to decide what specific steps we should Group

undertake in order to save energy.

At this moment our company “Kadino Industry” does not use liquid fuels and gas, but if we use liquid fuels

and gas in the future, we would certainly install monitoring for this purpose.

Our experience with USAID is excellent and of course we would recommend to the other companies to invest

in energy consumption management systems. By means of the monitoring provided by this system, companies

would be able to manage energy consumption more easily, and in this manner they will simultaneously make

savings.

Energy is an important item in the cost structure of our company, which is
in the range between 5% and 20% depending on the different types of refractory
bricks. In total costs, the energy for baking which is obtained by burning extra light
fuel participates with approximately 10%, and the participation of electricity is
approximately 2%.

The electricity monitoring and balancing system that we have implemented
through USAID’s project, and in association with TIMELPROEKT – Skopje, provides
measurement of all electrical parameters in real time and transfer of such obtained
data to a central server with an installed energy monitoring software. This enables
excellent overview of the loads and the optimization opportunities, comparison of
the projected and the budgeted energy, as well as monitoring and recording of the Boban Angjelevski,
quality of delivered electricity by the distributor. The system enables preparation of CEO of Nova
predefined reports and their mailing at a specified time to a defined number of users, Refractory
as well as mailing of alarms and conditions that deviate from the default diagrams.
The system also enables monitoring of the energy trends according to a derivative, facility or as an entirety, in
real time, which provides successful projection and budgeting of the required energy, as well as defining of the
measures for the purpose of consumption balance.

Thanks to this system, activities for optimization of the production process have been undertaken in our
company, in terms of appropriate use of the production equipment aimed at reduction of peaks i.e. the engaged
power which is an important part of the electricity cost.

In addition, through USAID Macedonia, and in association with TIMELPROEKT-Skopje and FILBIS-Skopje,
for the requirements of NOVA Refractories-Pehcevo, a pre-investment feasibility study was prepared for
assessment of the economic viability to replace the liquid fuel-extra light heating oil with liquid oil gas or
compressed natural gas. The result of the feasibility study is encouraging and once this project is implemented,
the existing monitoring system will be upgraded with the possibility to monitor and optimize the consumption
of gaseous fuel.

Following our experience, I recommend to the other companies to invest in energy consumption management
systems. I would particularly emphasize this for production companies with energy-intensive processes.

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