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Bosnia Herzegovina, Capitalising
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Mr. Nedžad Brankovic

Interview with Mr. Nedžad Brankovic,
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INTRODUCTION

In addition to providing of high-qualified personnel and development of top technologic level in manufacturing program, Market is always the essential factor of Energoinvest's development plans and achieves very good business results. In the outline of development, Energoinvest proceeds from an assumption that only a small amount of products and services could be placed on local Bosnian market, so Export is from the beginning the main target and determining factor for organization, business policy, development of technology and extension of production programs.

The struggle to gain business in the world market has the main influence on increasing and successful business of Energoinvest. Developing countries in Africa and Asia are the strategic markets, where Energoinvest is achieving the best business results, also the markets in the countries of the former Soviet Union, Europe, the USA and South America. In the last ten years of business, before the aggression upon Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1992, Energoinvest used to be the biggest manufacturer-exporter in the former Yugoslavia with annual export average of US$ 680 millions. Energoinvest's products are installed in industrial plants and electricity distribution networks from Siberia and Kazakhstan, Indonesia and Malaysia, countries of North and Central Africa, Canada, the USA, Mexico and Venezuela, to Brazil and Argentina in South America. The developed technological and commercial cooperation with European leading countries results in significant placement of Energoinvest's products and services in European countries and on third markets through joint business with European Companies.

Energoinvest's sale network abroad - sites, agencies, own and mixed companies - plays the key role in conquering new markets and gaining significant contracts that has direct influence on continual successful growth and development of Energoinvest.



Energoinvest established its first agencies 40 years ago. By gaining big engineering businesses in developing countries, Energoinvest had established many building sites of industrial or power plants that included design, equipment supply, civil engineering and other works, equipment installing, put into operation and maintenance within the guaranty period. Almost in all countries, after job completion, sites remained to exist because of gaining new contracts there. Investors appreciate the presence of Energoinvest as confirmation of its determination of long-term contribution in their development projects.

This certainly was a good base for establishing mixed companies for plant design and construction, transfer of technology and mutual commercial businesses. On the other side, Energoinvest has established its own trading firms in many countries, primarily for more effective market survey and covering their costs by own profit. The network of its subsidiary companies - Interenergo in New York, Paris, Istanbul, Munich, and firms in Mexico and Kuala Lumpur have a special significant role in financing of many projects, realization of attractive bind jobs as well as providing mutual approach of Energoinvest with leading international companies.

Nowadays, Energoinvest's sales network consists of nine own representative agencies, and twenty-five mixture firms including Energoinvest's firms in Croatia, Slovenia and Macedonia. Own and mixed firms are geographically favorably disposed in Europe, Africa, Middle and Far East, countries of former Soviet Union, as well as USA and Mexico.
Specialized agents cover certain world markets. In all of these markets, Energoinvest is traditionally and for long-range sales its own products and services. All representative agencies, building sites, and firms are successfully continuing their businesses in spite of all difficulties caused by the aggression upon Bosnia and Herzegovina (interruption of production and disability to complete some of jobs).

PRESENTATION

Energoinvest is a little bit unusual phenomenon for a country just like Bosnia and Herzegovina. In spite of all shortages in the business infrastructure of this young state, which is passing through transition phase, Energoinvest is evenly and successfully responding to challenges of world market and competition. In addition to their essential motives to make business and profit, Energoinvest and its employees are more motivated to preserve the value system of the company as the main reason for its existence. Thus, the very clear business doctrine of Energoinvest provides permanent advantage in relation to the competitors.

We are completely aware of the responsibility of our company in elevating state's status within the globalization processes. Among the best, we conquer the market by quality and capability. We encourage individual qualities and engage the employees to a maximum to make their capabilities very useful to the company and society as well. By our own research and development work we generate innovative and competitive skills of the company.

Energoinvest's business doctrine has been crystallized through 50 years of experience, all efforts have been directed to understanding of actual and future needs and requirements of customers. We aspire to exceed expectations of customers. Nowadays, when the process of ownership transition in our country is on, Energoinvest is passing through this process also. We understand the privatization as stimulating factor for establishing synergic courses on many business fields, such as: development of products and technology, appearance on the market and quality insurance policy.

Because of these we can frankly say that we are:

· A company with power of big companies and efficiency of the small ones.
· A company with attractive profitability for new investors.
· A company beloved by the customers.

ENERGOINVEST PARTNER OF PROVEN CONFIDENCE

What does Energoinvest want to be? Which role to play on the market and wider environment? This has been mission and long-term vision of Energoinvest since its foundation in 1951. Energoinvest grew out of designing firm and become medium developed company with emphasized fulcrum on engineering system that contains own knowledge, gaining and implementing of new technologies.

Nowadays, Energoinvest, dd - Sarajevo is the leading system in Bosnia and Herzegovina with scope of activities in the fields of designing and realization of complex plants in the country and abroad, as well as development of economy and export of products and services in all world markets.

The company's strategy is based on the following global goals: Holding Corporation, privatization, renewal of research and development centers with emphasized fulcrum on business and technologic systems, appearance on market and preservation of competitive capabilities through innovation of products, technology and quality as well.

The fundamental outline of Energoinvest's business philosophy is development of cooperation based on its own needs and developmental priorities of partners' countries and complete transfer of technology and knowledge.

The permanent presence of Energoinvest on the market, following the market trends and events on the current market is secured by the specialized organization Energokomerc and network of its own and joint-companies, representatives and agents in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the world.

This business philosophy resulted on presence of Energoinvest's firms all around the world.
Energoinvest's efficiency and quality performance are the result of high developed and organized teamwork.
Energoinvest is a member of World Economic Forum.
Energoinvest is predetermined as very interesting partner for business in Bosnia and Herzegovina and on traditional world markets, especially in Asian and African countries.

ACTIVITIES

Energoinvest is multidisciplinary engineering company with dominant export orientation. Its manufacturing core businesses in the fields of electrical power, power transmission lines and machines and process equipment enable the company for execution of complex plants on "turn key" basis.

Activities of Energoinvest are designing, engineering, research and development, representation and mediation, technology and know how transfer, as well as banking and financial businesses.

Investment in Energoinvest will bring profit, because we are talking on partner of proven confidence on the market. Investment in Energoinvest means an investment in mutual future.

Energoinvest has already acquired certificates of approval of quality management systems according to ISO 9000 standards that Lloyd's Registers provided to:

· Transmission lines field - Certificate 9002
· Electrical equipment field - Certificate 9002
· Valves and fittings field - Certificate 9002
· Automation field - Certificate 9001
The procedure to obtain appropriate certificates on other fields is running on.

ELECTRICAL POWER

Activities on electrical power field include:
Design, consulting, and construction of electric power plants based on "turn-key" system; Research and development of electrical equipment for middle and high voltages; Manufacture of electrical equipment for middle and high voltages.



Electrical Power Engineering of Energoinvest is a basic unit for performing electric power plants all over the world. For more than 40 years it has constructed about 500 transformer stations 72,5 kV - 420 kV in more than 30 countries on the "turn-key" basis.

In cooperation with other Energoinvest's engineering units, it participated in construction of 8 Thermal and 22 Hydro Electric Power Plants, in the country and abroad.

The activities of electrical power engineering are: design, consulting, procurement and assembly of equipment, supervising of assemblage, testing of built plants and their delivery to the final users.
The implemented quality system is in conformity with ISO 9001standard and it is certified by Lloyd's Register Quality Assurance Ltd.

Research and development in the field of electrical equipment for low, middle, and high voltages has been done for more than 35 years. Thanks to the results of such a work, Energoinvest is ranged with the biggest European manufacturers of gas-insulated installations, SF6 switchgears and SF6 measuring transformers up to 550 kV voltage. Energoinvest had transferred its own know-how of SF6 middle and high voltage equipment into partner companies in 5 countries. The developing activities of SF6 high voltage equipment didn't stop even during the aggression upon Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Energoinvest began to restore the manufacturing of electrical equipment in 1995, confirming its top-quality and reliability by typical tests at KEMA (Holland), CESI (Italy), and IPH (Germany) laboratories.
Manufacturing of electrical equipment for electric power plants, for power transmission and distribution has existed for more than 45 years. The majority of this production is based on our own knowledge and technologies, and in the past, 80% of our products were for export.
The production program in prewar period was located in 14 sectors and it used to cover very wide range of products from 0,4 kV up to 550 kV.

Factory of electrical equipment ELOP-IRCE - Sarajevo

POWER TRANSMISSION LINES

During 45 years of business all over the world, Energoinvest - transmission lines department has designed, manufactured and constructed transmission lines, 11kV - 500 kV. About 80% of total production and activities of transmission lines department have been delivered abroad. More than 57000 km has been constructed and about 800.000 tons steel-lattice transmission lines towers has been manufactured and delivered.



In regard to voltage levels, the structure is as follows:
11 kV-88 kV (31 000 km)
110 kV-161 kV (9 700 km)
220 kV-275 kV (12 500 km)
330 kV-500 kV (3 900 km)

In 1980, Transmission lines department became a significant manufacturer of cable cars and ski lifts for industry and tourism based on the engineering system. Transmission lines department was the exclusive supplier and constructor of vertical transport lines for XIV Winter Olympic Games in Sarajevo, 1984.

Activities of Transmission Lines department:

· Engineering for transmission lines for voltages up to 500kV;
· Completely design and constructing of power transmission lines;
· Full production of hot-dip galvanized steel structure for power transmission line towers;
· Certified testing of all components of transmission lines;
· Mechanical testing of transmission line towers and other structures and providing adequate certificates concerning this testing;
· Design and construction of vertical transport facilities like ski-lifts, cable cars, industrial cable cars including testing the cords quality;
· Manufacture of equipment for vertical transport;
· Testing and technical improvements of design, manufacture and construction of steel structures;
· Design and manufacture of towers for railway and trolley bus overhead wire;
· All kinds of antenna towers;
· Transmission lines poles for low, middle and high voltage and for other purposes.

All developing, manufacturing, testing and constructing processes are certified by quality control system according to the ISO 9001 and ISO 9002 standards, and these activities are carrying out in the following specialized units:

ENGINEERING FOR TRANSMISSION LINES
FACTORY OF TRANSMISSION LINES TOWERS
INSTITUTE FOR EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH OF METAL LATTICE STRUCTURES
TRANSMISSION LINES CONSTRUCTION




COMPLEX PLANTS

Energoinvest's specialized organizations perform on "turn key" basis:

Hydro-electrical power plants, Thermal power plants, Industrial power stations, Boiler houses, transformer stations and other complex plants in domestic and foreign markets.

In addition to design and construction of complete plants on "turn key" basis, Energoinvest performs reconstruction, renewal, revitalization and modernization of existing plants.



During their long-range experience, Energoinvest's engineering organizations had performed on "turn key" basis many complex plants at home and at the markets of Europe, Africa and Asia.

Hydro power plants (52), Thermal power plants (30), Industrial power station and Boiler houses (33), Transformer stations from 10 kV up to 400 kV (584), Industrial and technological complexes (45), Utilities and Water systems (85), Hydro-Technical plants (13), Architectural facilities (99), Water management and power plants (6), etc…

In the period (1993 - 1998), Energoinvest's specialized engineering organizations especially participated in design, restoration, reconstruction and revitalization of a huge number of existing facilities of various purposes in Bosnia and Herzegovina (power, public and administrative, industrial and process) plants that were damaged during the aggression upon Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Energoinvest's specialized engineering organizations on the Complex Plants field:

· ENERGOENGINEERING - HIGRA (Hydro-Civil Engineering) · ENGINEERING FOR THERMAL POWER AND PROCESS PLANTS - ITP · ENGINEERING FOR AUTOMATION - IAT · PETROLINVEST · ELECTRIC POWER ENGINEERIN
PROCESS TEHNOLOGY

This field of Energoinvest covers research and development, designing and engineering, assembly and supervision of assembling of equipment for plants and installation of processing industry as well as equipment for rail and road transportation.

PETROLINVEST

Specialized engineering organization founded in 1969 by joint investment of Energoinvest, dd - Sarajevo and TECHNIP - Paris that provides the following services:

Designing and construction of oil, gas and processing plants for various capacities and purposes.
Designing and production of equipment and other technical facilities for oil and gas fields.
FACTORY OF THERMAL EQUIPMENT TAT - SARAJEVO



Specialized for petrochemical and other processing equipment, processing reactors, columns with various insulation, heat exchangers, autoclaves and apparatuses equipped with mixers, air and condensation coolers, driers, worm presses for sugar factories. TAT - Sarajevo is trying to renew the right to use the ASME (U & U2) monograms (American Society of Mechanical Engineers).

FACTORY OF VEHICLES, MACHINES AND CONTAINERS - VMC - SARAJEVO

Specialized for manufacture of containers according to ISO standards, refrigeration containers, mobile container houses, all types of freight and special railway cars, trolley buses, loading and unloading ramps.

FACTORY COMET, SARAJEVO

On the basis of mounting engineering system, this factory performs mounting of machines, equipment for electric power plants and measurement and regulation in thermal power, process and other industrial plants.
Our main references abroad:

Reconstruction of Messla oil field, Agoco Libya
Maintenance of oil fields equipment, Agoco Libya
Design of refinery furnaces, Kvarner Heurtey France, Paris
Columns for crude oil stripping IOEC, Iran
Production of urea, fertilizer factory, Pancevo, Yugoslavia
Metal-acetic acid, MSK Kikinda, Yugoslavia
Secondhand oils refinery in Modrica, Energoinvest, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Kerosine treatment and storing, ENCC SKIKDA Algeria
Plant reconstruction of Hydrocracking "ISOMAX", Energoinvest, Bosanski Brod, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bitumen blower, Energoinvest, Bosanski Brod, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Vacuum and atmospheric distillation, Energoinvest, Bosanski Brod, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Secondhand oils refinery, Naftagas, Belgrade, Yugoslavia

VALVES AND FITTINGS

Energoinvest had started its activities in the field of Valves and Fittings 45 years ago. The production is organized in the following factories:

FACTORY OF STEEL VALVES AND FITTINGS "ETAS VALVES" SARAJEVO
FACTORY OF STEEL VALVES AND FITTINGS "ARMATURE" - SARAJEVO
FACTORY OF SPECIAL VALVES - SARAJEVO
ACTUATORS FACTORY TMP - SARAJEVO
CASTING FACTORY - SARAJEVO

Developed production of valves and fittings is the result of long research and cooperation with world famous manufacturers of valves and fittings ORION, SAIFERT and LUNKENHEIMER.

Transfer of technology and mutual production of valves and fittings is realized in Egypt, Indonesia and Iran.

PRODUCTION PROGRAM

Industrial steel valves and fittings (gate valves, valves, globe valves, swing check valves and ball faucets made from carbonized and alloyed steel) according to API, BS, ANSI, DIN and GOST standards. The presser-classes 150-1500 (1,6-25,0 Mpa), 2?-30" (50-750 mm) for oil, gas, petrochemical and chemical industry, also for power (steam, water).

Equipment for oil and natural gas wells according to API 6A series 2.000-10.000 psi.

The production processes are supported by quality management system, which is developed and certified in accordance to ISO 9002.

The proven quality of our final products has been verified by API institute that has made the use of API monogram available since 1988, which was renewed in 1999.

REDUCING UNITS
For command of big nominal size valves we produce and install: cylindrical, conical and spiral reducing units.

ELECTRO-MECHANICAL ON-OFF ACTUATORS

For automatic processes, Energoinvest delivers valves equipped with ON-OFF electromechanical actuators.

CASTINGS

Steel castings made from carbonized low, middle and high-alloyed steel according to ASTM, AISI, DIN, and GOST standards up to 3 tons, for valves, pumps and machine construction.

AUTOMATION- INFORMATION & TELECOMMUNICATIONS

Activities in this field are organized through the following firms of Energoinvest:

ENGINEERING FOR AUTOMATION - IAT

Design and engineering of automatic control systems for process-technical and power plants and installations.

Delivery of equipment through plants' design and construction activities.

Engineering for communication systems, traffic control systems as well as fire and burglary prevention systems.

ENGINEERING FOR COMMUNICATIONS

Design, engineering, assembly, testing and putting into operation of telecommunication systems and telephone exchangers.

ENERGOCONTROL

Engineering of complex systems for centralized and distributive computer control and managing, measurement and regulation in the fields of:

- Transmission and distribution of electricity, gas, water, heating systems, oil and oil derivatives and other types of energy.
- Traffic systems.

POWER CONTROL SYSTEMS - SUE

Production, design, applicable engineering and development in the fields of:

- Industrial technology.
- Electric power supply.
- Secondary equipment.

Delivery, assembling, testing and putting into operation of:

- Electro-technical equipment and systems.
- Automatization and robotization of manufacturing lines.
- Regulated electrical motor drives.
- Equipment and systems for constant power supply.
- Inverters and stabilizers of network voltage.
- Electrical supply units.

IRIS COMPUTERS

Delivery, design, engineering and maintenance of computer and information systems based on multi-users and personal computers, computer networks and communications. Production, implementation and maintenance of applicable and communicable software.

INSTITUTE FOR CONTROL AND COMPUTER SCIENCES - IRCA

Development of methods, systems and equipment for automatization of industrial plants. Design, consulting and engineering of equipment and systems for automatic control of construction and reconstruction of technological processes and power plants.

NON FERROUS AND NON METALS

Department of non-ferrous metals and nonmetals was established within Energoinvests in 1969 for construction of large and main plants in the field of light and non-ferrous metals in Bosnia and Herzegovina.



The successful development of non-ferrous metals technology lasted 20 years, while Bauxite mines capacity was 2,300.000 t/year, Aluminum oxide factory capacity 850.000 t/year, Aluminum factory capacity 93.000 t/year, and mines of Zinc, Lead, Manganese and many metal processing factories.
Engineering of non-ferrous metals and nonmetals today is supporting development of production capacities within

Energoinvest's business units:

Bauxite mine in Bosanska Krupa;

Manganese mine in Bužim;

Lead mine in Olovo;

Factory for production of wrapping material "Polietilenka" in Bihac;

Factory for thermal plastic processing in "Bosnaplast" Bosanski Petrovac;

Steel production section for processing of secondary non-ferrous metals, Sarajevo.

Factory for bitumen and chemical products "Hempro" in Gradacac.

Engineering also provides marketing and investment studies in the field of metal and nonmetal processing as well as exploration of oil and non-ferrous metals and nonmetals mining.

Engineering also performs technology transfer and erection plants for mining, metallurgy, extractive metallurgy, metal processing and alumosilicate chemistry, as well as organizing and managing of oil and gas exploration.

The acquired experience and direct cooperation with research institutes, design organizations and specialist in the fields of geology and mining, enable Engineering to offer restoring of old capacities or construct new ones in the fields of non-ferrous metals, metal processing, plastic processing and production of wrapping materials.

OIL, GAS, CHEMISTRY

ACTIVITIES

Exploration of oil and gas.
Import and distribution of oil and oil derivatives.
Import of natural gas.
Production of motor oils and lubricants.
Production of chemical products.
Production based on bitumen.
Production of coating and protecting compounds.

ENERGOPETROL



Activities on import, export and re-export of oil derivatives are carried out mainly through Energoinvet's liquid cargo terminal located at the Ploce port (middle of the Adriatic sea), which has a favorable position and good road and railway connections with our country.

Capacities of storage:
Fuel oil 30.000 m3
White products (benzene and gas oils) 30.000 m3
Petrochemical products 10.000 m3
Sodium base (NaOH 55%) 15.000 m3

Energopetrol-Sarajevo through 70 modern gas stations in Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and by Energopetrol-Zagreb through 27 gas stations in Croatia carries out distribution of oil derivatives and motor oils and lubricants. Energopetrol-Sarajevo also possesses a large storage space and terminal in Sarajevo.

NATURAL GAS

Energoinvest is the exclusive importer and carrier of development of natural gas consumption in Bosnia and Herzegovina. By gas import, many developing trends are taking place in Energoinvest and other companies in Bosnia and Herzegovina whose products compensate the gas import. Consumption of natural gas in Bosnia and Herzegovina is dynamically increasing so Energoinvest has to deal with storage technology of natural gas.

CHEMISTRY

Chemical industry is basically processing one and ready-made production based on bitumen. The traditional products are: waterproof tapes, waterproof emulsions and different types of bitumen emulsions, anticorrosive agents, thinners and glues as well as fillers.

A part of these activities is carried out at the refinery in Gradacac.

EXPLORATION WORKS

Energoinvest as the carrier of oil exploring in Bosnia and Herzegovina cooperating with American Corporation "Amoco" has achieved till 1992 positive results that impose further activities on this field.

INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS AND QUALITY (IMQ)



The beginnings of this activity were in 1955 at the laboratory for welding and defecto- scopy targeting improvement of technique, technology and control as well as education of personnel of Energoinvest. After the aggression upon Bosnia and Herzegovina, several institutes and centers of Energoinvests were in 1995, joined together to unify activities and personnel resources for the sake of mutual performance in the market and capability to provide universal services of its own activities. This enables the institutes to provide high quality support to the existing Engineering of electric, mechanical and processing industries as well as to manufacturing organizations within Energoinvest and wider.

The activities of IMQ are carrying out through:

· Scientific-researching and development-application work in welding and testing fields,
· Design of welding procedures and lines as well as consulting and applications in welding field,
· Monitoring the situation of active power and processing plants with evaluation of their lifetime,
· Design and manufacturing of welding equipment,
· Offering of expert opinions,
· Performing, ratification and qualification of welding technologies,
· Certifying the capability of business subjects to provide welding works,
· Supervision, control and super-control of construction of investment and capital buildings,
· Design, consulting, supervision and control in the field of anticorrosive protection,
· Design and consulting in the field of quality control,
· Testing by destructive or non-destructive methods(chemical,technological, metallurgical and corrosive tests),
· Education, examining and certifying personnel for all levels of welding and testing fields.

INSTITUTE FOR ENERGY

This institute deals with researching and development of products and services in the fields of power transmission, electrical energy, processing equipment, valves and fittings and management of industry and energy.

The institute consists of five sectors:

· Sector for development of products and services,
· Sector for planning and organizing in energy field,
· Sector for management of energy consumption,
· Sector for production, conversion and transmission of energy,
· Sector for national priority programs.

Within the sector for development of products and services, there are many centers for researching and development; for electrical energy IRCE, for thermal mechanics ITEN, for automatics and informational systems IRCA and for transmission lines SGDV.

INSTITUTE FOR EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH OF METAL LATTICE STRUCTURES (IMRK)

This Institute was founded in 1956. Basic activities of this institute consist in:

· Mechanical testing of transmission lines towers with elaboration of technical studies and issuing of corresponding certificates,
· Studies and experimental research of metal structures for the purpose of technical improvement of the same and upgrading of the economic feasibility of their manufacture and erection to a higher level.

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