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Litostroj Power was specially invited by U.S. Embassy in Slovenia to attend the SelectUSA Investment Summit in Washington D.C., organized by U.S. Department of Commerce, which was held on June 20-22, 2018. The SelectUSA Investment Summit is the highest-profile event dedicated to promoting foreign direct investment (FDI) in the United States.

Litostroj Power, together with our daughter company from Czech Republic - ČKD Blansko Engineering, will replace two turbines in the pumped-storage hydropower plant Limberg I in the well-known tourist destination and skiing resort of Kaprun in the federal province of Salzburg.

Students of Engineering and Business program from The University of Kansas (USA) visited Litostroj Power. We presented them what we do, how do we do it and what are our specialties in the industry.

As part of new factory construction in Turkey, proper implementation of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system plays an important part for successful and efficient establishment of logistic, production and other processes in the company. In this respect, Litostroj Power Group addressed this topic with completely new development and implementation of SAP S/4 HANA as latest edition of SAP software, which was successfully implemented and put into operation in Turkey in the end of April.

Before the end of the year 2017, Litostroj Power’s engineers put into operation 4 Saxo-type units, two of them on Yellow Falls in Ontario and two of them on 11 Chute in Quebec, both in Canada. Each unit has an output of 9,5 MW with a runner diameter more than 3 m.

As construction of our new production facility in Ankara is getting to an end, we already started to educate and train key Litostroj Turkey personnel. For newly founded daughter company of Litostroj Power this is an unique opportunity to gain knowledge from experienced people and to continue our more than 70 years long tradition.

Graduate students from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of University in Ljubljana visited Litostroj Power as part of the school curriculum. We took them on a tour to see our production facilities. For the majority of them it was the first opportunity to visit a manufacturing facility and to see first-hand how hydro turbines are being manufactured.

We successfully concluded recertification process for standards ISO 9001 and ISO 14001, conducted by Bureau Veritas auditors in March 2018. Among those recertified standards we are also certified with standards for Health and Safety Management System OHSAS 18001 and for ISO 3834, which stands for Quality requirements for fusion welding of metallic materials.

The Slovenian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Bled Strategic Forum hosted 1st International Conference: Day of Latin America and Caribbean (LAC). Purpose of the conference was to strengthen the business and cultural collaboration between LAC countries and Slovenia.

Litostroj Power is building new Turbine and Generator production facility in Ankara (Turkey), which is located 50 km southwest of Ankara in the Second Organized Industrial Zone, next to the motorway E90 from Ankara to Polatli.