Impact of the energy cost in the production cost of heavy clay product

	2002		2006
	E/T	%	E/T	%
Raw materials	14	12%	15	11%
Packing	10	9%	11	8%
Energy	17	15%	32	23%
moulds	2	2%	2	1%
maintenance	20	18%	22	16%
manpower	24	21%	27	19%
miscelaneous (insurance,...)	2	2%	2	2%
depreciation	11	10%	12	9%
taxes (local)	5	4%	5	4%
other plant services	10	8%	11	8%
total production cost	115		138

(*) estimated production costs needs to be confirmed

Now the energy represent 23% of the production cost of an heavy clay product instead of 15% 4 years ago.

Impact of CO2

0,22Kg CO2 per 1 Kg fired clay

penalty from 100€/T CO2 (2008) = 22€/T fired product

potential increase of 15% of the production cost

more important than the energy price increase between 2000 an 2006