Modernization aimed at optimizing costs should become one of the significant factors in the development of the real sector of the economy, along with the promotion of innovation policy, the production of replacement goods against the background of a shortage of Western analogues.
Currently, the implementation of projects investing in import substitution of energy carriers and increasing the volume of use of domestic components of the raw material base is relevant.
This is especially important for energy-intensive industries, which, due to the peculiarities of consumer demand, do not feel the need to expand the product line, and are also forced to restrain the expansion of sales in the eastern direction due to the significant impact of transport costs on the formation of a competitive price. Basically, logistics-related difficulties are characteristic of enterprises located in the western regions of the country.
As an example, we can cite a number of investment projects implemented at JSC Krasnoselsksroimaterialy, where for the first time in the country a technological line for the use of alternative fuels from solid household waste was put into operation. As a result, 11 thousand tons of imported energy – coal – were replaced in January-September 2023. Next year, it is planned to use 44 thousand tons of alternative fuel, replacing 30 thousand tons of coal, with an economic effect of over 4.6 million rubles. In addition, a heat generator which allows using Belarusian peat as an energy carrier instead of imported gas was put into operation at the enterprise. As a result, gas consumption decreased from 4.5-5 thousand cubic meters per hour to 200 cubic meters per hour, and five peat-producing plants of the Grodno and Brest regions were able to load their capacities to the maximum.
But the most important, in our opinion, result of such transformations at JSC Krasnoselskstroymaterialy was the growth of wages: at the end of 9 months - at the level of 131.9%. The plant is a city-forming enterprise for the Krasnoselsk, which makes the level of well-being of the residents of the settlement directly dependent on the continued existence of this production."