Company GEC d.o.o. Finishes Project for Increasing Energy Efficiency

The mission of our company is producing high-quality products in a short span of time, thus reducing storage costs for our partners. The company is located in Gorski-Kotar County - the green heart of Croatia.

The company is one of the leading plastic packaging manufacturers in Croatia, with 16 employees working daily towards your satisfaction. We produce LDPE plastic bags and films and the main idea behind our production is to offer ‘everything for packaging in one place’!

The company has successfully finished its project “Increasing energy efficiency and the use of renewable energy sources in the production facility of the company Gec d.o.o. (Llc),” reference number: KK.04.1.1.03.0218.

The main goal of the project is to reduce the carbon footprint of the company, minimize electric energy consumption, and use renewable sources of energy.

Other goals of the project are to increase the competitiveness of Croatian companies, by encouraging the creation of new values and sustainable growth and increasing profitability and new employment, which should ultimately contribute to the reduction of economic inequalities.

The estimated results of this project are the company’s reducing carbon emissions by more than 100 t/per year, thus saving more than 250,000 kWh of electric energy annually, and supporting procurement of new machines and increasing manufacturing capacity.

This project implements the following energy efficiency measures:

• Change in technological process of extrusion
• Reconstruction and modernization of lighting
• Building a solar energy facility
• Installation of remote-controlled tracking of water and energy consumption
• Installation of a compensation module for idle energy
• Installation of a system for frequency regulation