Ceramics is defined as inorganic, non-metallic materials those are consolidated and acquire theirrndesired properties under the application of heat. This application of heat in practice takes placerninside high-temperature kilns, usually for long period of time making ceramics energy intensivernindustry. Tabor Ceramic Products Share Company is traditional ceramic manufacturing andrnenergy intensive industry as it produces tiles, sanitary ware and tableware products. It is the onlyrnceramics producing company in Ethiopia located in southern part of the country in Hawasa town.rnDue to high energy cost from total production cost and using highly inefficient kilns and otherrnenergy using equipments the company is in financial crisis. The growing need for ceramicrnproducts due to development of the country, increasing fuel cost from time to time and wellrnknown energy saving practices in European and Asian ceramic industries which can be easilyrnadapted to our countries ceramic plant as well as the fact that the company is in real need ofrnways which can reduce its energy cost have necessitated this study.rnSeveral energy saving opportunities in the tabor ceramics factory are obtained by this researchrnand can be directly implemented in the factory. It is tried to classify some of energy savingrnoptions based on cost of implementing them and this is done by estimating the capital cost andrnannual cost of operation as well as saving that could be achieved by implementing the savingrnoption and by calculating the payback period of the measures. The result of the current researchrnhas showed that more saving can be achieved by investing more on identified energy savingrnopportunities. Actually it is not to deny that there are no cost energy saving options that canrnincrease the profitability of the company if implemented and priority should be given to thesernsaving measures. Energy saving measures identified by the current research like reducingrnthermal mass of existing kiln cars, installing new modern low thermal mass kiln cars, recoveringrnwaste heat from cooling zone of tunnel kilns especially from glost kiln, installing high speedrnburners in kilns, avoiding dummy firing in tunnel kilns, reducing loss of products at each step ofrnproduction, applying monitoring and targeting system etc can be implemented with low costrnthere by resulting in huge energy saving which can pay back the investment cost in less than twornyears time, for most of them the payback period being below one year. But above all the energyrnsaving opportunity that can make tabor ceramics factory competent in local as well as in worldrnmarket by greatly reducing its specific energy consumption i.e. energy consumed to produce one ton of ceramic products, is introducing the technology of single fast firing by installing roller kilnrnfor tiles production. This measure will require substantial investment cost and change in processrnand the reward will be very high; saving of about 50% with payback period of below three years.rnFinally by considering the technology and trained man power availability of the country it isrndiscovered that it is possible to save energy equivalent to at least 424,429liters of kerosene orrnabout 6million birr [kerosene cost 14birr per liter when this research is done] annually.rnThe major fuel switching opportunities identified by current research and to be applied in TaborrnCeramics Factory are mainly focused on switching to cheaper fuels that can be obtained withinrnEthiopia thereby saving the foreign currency the country expends to import petroleum fuels.rnAccording to the researcher this can be achieved by using Ethiopian coal as fuel in spry drierrnwhich currently uses gasoil, effectively recovering heat from cooling zones of kilns to supplyrnheat required for drying sanitary wares to save fuel used in boilers to produce hot water forrnmentioned purpose, and as there is plan that Ethiopia will be commercially producing natural gasrnin coming six years it is wise decision to switch fuel of kilns from current kerosene to naturalrngas. This will have multi-benefit as experiences from developed countries shows that they havernalready done this measure because natural gas is environmentally friendly fuel than other solidrnand liquid fuels and in our case it will save foreign currency for fuel of kilns when produced inrnEthiopia.