Recognised at Celje. Focused on What Comes Next.

The floor at the International Industry Fair in Celje is the kind of place where the industry takes its own temperature. Across hundreds of stands and thousands of conversations, you get a clear sense of where manufacturing minds are - and where they are heading.

This year, we brought CALMS to Celje not to make announcements, but to listen. To talk to plant managers carrying the weight of rising energy costs. To speak with engineers who know something is being lost in their compressed air systems but cannot yet point to exactly where. Those conversations are the ones that matter most to us.

One of the highlights of our time at the fair was a presentation by our Data Analytics specialist, Miha Lazar. The title said it plainly: “You Optimize Everything - Except Your Most Expensive Utility.”

It struck a nerve - and it was meant to.

Miha walked the audience through something the industry has been slow to confront. Compressed air is, in most manufacturing environments, one of the single largest energy costs on the floor. Yet it is routinely the least monitored, the least understood, and the last in line for optimization investment. His presentation did not just name the problem - it showed it. Real examples. Real inefficiencies. The kind of numbers that make plant managers quietly recalculate what they have been leaving on the table.

From there, the conversation turned to solutions. Miha guided the audience through the key elements of a compressed air system, where losses hide, and how targeted improvements - when applied with the right data behind them - can unlock significant and measurable savings. He closed by demonstrating the CALMS holistic optimization approach: how monitoring, analysis, and action work together as a system rather than as isolated fixes.

For those thinking about the financial case, the presentation also covered available incentives, including Eko Sklad support, which makes the path to optimization more accessible than many manufacturers assume.

The room was attentive. The questions that followed were sharp. That is exactly the kind of engagement we came to Celje for.

Awards are not why we do this.

But they do confirm something important.

At this year’s fair, CALMS received recognition from MIS Celje for delivering a sustainable and energy-efficient solution in industrial compressed air management. We are proud of that acknowledgement. More than the recognition itself, we value what it reflects - a shift in how the industry is beginning to treat compressed air.

For too long, compressed air has been the utility that runs in the background. Assumed. Unmanaged. Paid for, but rarely understood. The plants that will lead the next decade are not the ones with the biggest compressors. They are the ones that know exactly what every bar of pressure is costing them - and have the data to act on it.

Walking the halls in Celje, we saw more manufacturers asking sharper questions about energy accountability than we have seen in years. The conversation is maturing. Efficiency is no longer a nice-to-have framed around compliance - it is becoming a core operational metric. That is the shift we believe in, and that is the shift we are engineering for.

We are grateful to MIS Celje for the recognition. We are grateful to Miha for delivering a presentation that challenged the room to think differently. And we are grateful to everyone who stopped by, asked hard questions, and pushed us to go deeper.

The work continues.