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We received a visit from international partners from the EU SOPHIA project. In the context of our common project, we test the functioning of exoskeletons and look for ways to best cooperate with collaborative robots in the production process, in order to alleviate the physical exertion of employees.
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Hidria was presented at the Euroguss fair, which is considered the largest European trade fair event in casting technologies. In Nuremberg, we presented ourselves as an important link in the supply chain of aluminium parts for the automotive industry. We also received a visit of our important partners from the Bosch Corporation.
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Last week, the second international CWIEME fair on laminations and rotors this year was held in Berlin. At this fair, which celebrated its 25th anniversary this year, we presented our innovative solutions in the area of laminations and rotors for electric motor drives of electric and hybrid vehicles.
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After February 2020, the Covid-19 epidemic shaped the destiny of fair organisers, as practically no fairs too place during this time. Now our Lamtec business unit with its laminations and rotors was again, after a gap of over two years, presented at an international fair in Ulm in Germany.
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One month before the end of the school year, fourth-year students from the Škofja Loka Secondary Technical School visited us in Spodnja Idrija. We presented them employment opportunities, activities in work with young people and various areas and parts of our production.
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Because of the covid-prevention measures we again organised the traditional pre-New Year’s meeting via the Teams application. In this virtual environment, we reviewed the achievements and successes of this year and looked into future challenges, being determined to continue to play an important role in co-creating a common green future with our breakthrough innovations.
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In 2022, we will start building a new high-tech centre in Spodnja Idrija for the development and manufacture of key parts of electric motors for electric and electrified vehicles of the future; the centre will open in mid-2023. Together with the Prime Minister of Slovenia, Janez Janša, we laid the foundation stone of the project and thus announced our further successful development.
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Hidria knows how important engineering professions are for the development of our corporation. As we wish to encourage young people to actively choose such jobs, we became a strategic partner of the project We Will Be Engineers! which has been promoting technical professions among young people for a decade now.
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The new all-electric super sports cars Maserati GranTurismo and GranCabrio, which are currently at the last testing stage before their presentation, will be driven by Hidria’s key parts of electric motors. We will provide rotors and stators for electric drive units for this prestigious brand and in this manner significantly contribute to the automotive trends of the future.
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Hidria appreciates knowledge and competence; therefore, we are already training future leaders at our Leadership Academy. 17 of our young colleagues gathered at an interesting workshop in Sp. Idrija where they acquired the newest leadership skills.
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Dr. Terezija Kovačič met Hidria as a scholarship holder. In 2012, after successfully completing her undergraduate studies, she was employed at first as a project manager at Hidria Lamtec and later on she had an opportunity to become a development engineer, where she focuses mainly on the field of die casting. A few days ago, she completed her postgraduate studies and became a doctor of science in the field of metallurgy with the defense of her dissertation entitled Definition of thermodynamic conditions of solidification of Al99.7 on the electrical properties of the rotor.
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For the first time in Hidria’s history, the traditional pre-New Year's meeting of the management took place in the virtual form. Owing to the anti-Covid-19 protection measures, 200 participants attended the event via the MS Teams application, where we went thought the past operations and had a look into the future, which is full of challenges and thus also opportunities.
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