30 plus 5 years, which is the life expectancy of KMS, is a decent age for a private company in our country. If we unravel them, 30 years are for the same company, but with a different owner and a different name – “Comus”, which has now concentrated on the first letter of the abbreviation.
Five years ago, this small company, located on the site of the Kozloduy NPP, was bought by Todor Osikovsky through the company Euro Technoconsult Group.
In these plus five years are compressed work, influence, hopes and restoration of positions they had before.
Teodor Osikovsky was co-owner and director of the large company “Energoremont Holding”, which 7 years ago the shareholders sold to the Dutch “Ditsman”, one of the world’s companies that maintain and operate facilities in the mining, oil and gas and energy industries.
With the acquisition of the small company at the site in “Kozloduy”, Osikovsky gathers the team of “Energoremont” and starts not quite from scratch, but with a turnover of about BGN 1 million, five years later it is BGN 40 million. Today Osikovsky says – we have regained our positions, that is – what was accumulated in terms of experience and place in the market
In engineering companies, as well as in repair companies, a regularity is observed – if after a change of ownership, the team leaves with the leader, a new and strong company appears. In some fields, the assets are not material, but the specialists.
Something similar is happening with KMS. Today, the company employs 220 highly qualified specialists with over 30 years of experience in the energy industry. The headquarters is in Sofia, with branches in Kozloduy, Radnevo, Burgas. This is because in the nuclear power plant the company carries out planned repairs of the V and VI blocks, modernizes the emergency and warning protection systems, the automatic power regulator, and equipment for unloading and limiting the power. These are among the most important safety systems.
In the capital’s heating system, it builds highway heating pipes, and the office in Radnevo is because it maintains and repairs heavy mining equipment. And there is a workshop for metal structures.
He designed and modernized a traction substation near Boychinovtsi for NKŽI.
It partners with giants in our industry such as “Aurubis” and “Lukoil”, works with NEK, “Bulgartransgaz”, “Electricity System Operator”.
In the foundations of the company and the experience of the people in it is electricity.
The company is preparing to participate in the construction of the VII and VIII blocks of the Kozloduy NPP. On its site in the nuclear power plant in November last year, it started construction of an administrative building, in which the employees will move in in the spring of 2025, and a hall for the production of large-sized products and stainless steel details, which will be as for the nuclear energy, as well as for the concessional, for the chemical and oil industry and for many others without the food industry.
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Negotiations are also underway with “Hyundai”, which was chosen by the parliament as the executor of the project, but the signing of a contract between the two companies and the creation of a consortium for the construction of Block VII is pending.
If the project goes ahead, a lot of work is expected.
In partnership with a local businessman, KMS also sets foot in neighboring Greece. Their partner is one of the largest LPG (propane-butane) traders in Greece, with ships that he trades all over the world, and is also the heir to a hotel business. Initially, they were given small projects to test their capabilities. KMS-Greece has already completed a project for PPC, the National Energy Company, for the supply and installation of a cooling tower for the Linoperamata Thermal Power Plant on the island of Crete, making metal structures for building substations for the electricity distribution company Hendo. It builds residential buildings for the personnel of the Greek Air Force, as well as hangars for their aircraft.
Recently, it has also focused on Kosovo, they plan to apply for an order for the modernization of the coal mines there.
They have inquiries from all over Europe, but for now they do not plan to go far from Bulgaria, firstly because of the logistics, but also for the opening of work at the start of the new units at the nuclear power plant.