Company history
Hidria boasts a tradition of more than 50 years of producing solutions in automotive and industrial technologies. Although hardly any cars could be found on Slovenian roads in 1955, the company in Tolmin had a vision and was bold enough to start manufacturing plugs for cars. Since then, our path to success has been paved with the know-how, boldness and visions of people who have turned a small Slovenian company into an advanced global corporation.
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1955
Start of production of the first products for the automotive industry in Tolmin.
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1961
The first factory for air-conditioning products opens in Idrija.
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1962
Opening of new production premises for the car industry plant in Tolmin.
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1971
Opening of the Iskra factory in Spodnja Idrija, which later develops to become some of the largest companies and programmes in the Corporation.
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1977
The production of air-conditioning products expands to Godovič.
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1980
In the 1980s, Hidria penetrates the US market with the hermetic compressor motor range.
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1989
Chairman of the Board of Directors Edvard Svetlik starts building an international corporation by founding the parent company Hidria.
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1990
In 1990 and 1991, Hidria opens its first companies abroad – in Germany and the USA.
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1997
Hidria enters the automotive market with electrical steel laminations and commences production in Jesenice.
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1998
The company Hidria AET in Tolmin becomes part of the Hidria Corporation.
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2000
Start of the production of fans and motors with external rotors.
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2001
IMP Klima becomes part of the Hidria Corporation.
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2002
Hidria enters the automotive market with aluminium parts.
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2006
Opening of a modern development centre for air conditioning in Godovič – the Hidria Klima Institute. Hidria becomes the 100% owner of Alcan Tomos in Koper.
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2008
A second high-tech centre opens – the Hidria Institute for the Automotive Industry in Tolmin.
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2010
Hidria expands its production of automotive technologies in Changshu, China, and takes over the company Dr Karl Bausch in Germany.
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2012
Opening of the Hidria Institute for Materials and Technologies in Spodnja Idrija. In 2013, the new Technology Centre in Koper is unveiled.
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2013
The Hidria Corporation is declared the most innovative company in Europe.
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2016
CLEPA – the European Association of Automotive Suppliers awards us with its highest award for our breakthrough innovation in the key category “Green Technologies” for its diesel engine cold start system with the Optymus PSG pressure sensor.
