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Kranj's industrial corridor runs 140 hectares along the Šenčur axis. It houses 48 specialised precision engineering and automotive components firms. Together they employ...
Slovenia's sole international maritime gateway is in the middle of its largest capital deployment in history. The T3 container terminal expansion and the €1.06 billion Divača...
Hisense Europe deployed 47 new industrial robots and AI quality inspection systems across its Velenje manufacturing complex between 2023 and 2024. The investment totalled €12...
Velenje's metalworking ecosystem sits at a crossroads that defies conventional labour market logic. Across roughly 87 registered SMEs and three industrial anchors, the Šaleška...
Velenje registers an unemployment rate more than double Slovenia's national average. It also cannot fill its most critical technical roles for four months at a stretch. These...
Novo Mesto produces roughly 23,000 recreational vehicles a year. That figure is down from peak capacity; the European market contracted through 2023 and 2024, and Adria Mobil's...
Celje sits at the geographic centre of a logistics corridor that connects the Port of Koper to Austria, Croatia, and Hungary within a four hour truck radius. Leading up to...
Celje's manufacturing sector sits at the centre of an industrial paradox that has no precedent in Slovenia's recent economic history. In 2020, the bankruptcy of Železarna Celje...
Celje has more investment momentum behind its tourism sector than at any point in recent memory. A €12.3 million EU Cohesion Funds programme is rebuilding the heritage quarter...
Slovenia's sole international maritime gateway is in the middle of its largest capital deployment in history. The T3 container terminal expansion and the €1.06 billion Divača...
The Port of Koper is building cold storage capacity it cannot staff. Luka Koper's €45 million investment in Warehouse 5 will add 6,000 pallet positions of multi temperature...
Slovenia's only commercial port handled nearly 23 million tonnes of cargo in 2023. Container volumes tracked 3 to 4 percent above that level through the first three quarters of...
Kranj's industrial corridor runs 140 hectares along the Šenčur axis. It houses 48 specialised precision engineering and automotive components firms. Together they employ...
Kranj's telecommunications and electronics manufacturing sector grew its exports by 11% in 2024. The Gorenjska region shipped 88% of its electronics output to international...
The Ljubljana Kranj logistics corridor handled more freight in 2025 than at any point in its history. E commerce fulfilment demand grew by double digits. Ljubljana Airport's...
Ljubljana's two largest financial institutions have spent over €120M on digital transformation since 2022. Yet, the number of people employed in the city's banking sector has...
Ljubljana's BTC City complex moved 24.3 million tonnes of cargo through its orbital supply chains in 2023, anchored by the Port of Koper's container throughput growing 8% year...
Slovenia ranks fourth in the European Union for STEM graduates per capita. Its general population leads the bloc in digital skills. The University of Ljubljana and the Jožef...
Slovenia's second city invested heavily in Industry 4.0. The factory floors got smarter. The talent pipeline did not follow. For hiring leaders in Maribor's metalworking...
The University of Maribor's Faculty of Agriculture and Life Sciences graduates roughly 130 students every year into the Podravje region's wine, fruit processing, and food...
Maribor processes approximately 12,000 heavy goods vehicles daily through its northern Šentilj border crossing. The A1 motorway corridor connecting Ljubljana to Graz remains...
The Šempeter Solkan industrial corridor stretching through Nova Gorica municipality employs roughly 4,000 people in light manufacturing and precision engineering SMEs. Order...
Nova Gorica entered 2026 with new rail infrastructure, a permanent cultural quarter, and retail foot traffic running 10 to 12 percent above 2024 levels. The GO! 2025 European...
The cross border region straddling Nova Gorica and Italy's Friuli Venezia Giulia has above average unemployment on both sides. The Goriška region in Slovenia sits at 4.8%....
Novo Mesto produces roughly 23,000 recreational vehicles a year. That figure is down from peak capacity; the European market contracted through 2023 and 2024, and Adria Mobil's...
Krka d.d. completed its €200 million Solid Dosage Forms Plant 2 in late 2024, adding 150,000 square metres of production space and increasing tablet and capsule capacity by...
Novo Mesto's automotive cluster spent more than €60 million on robotic automation and Industry 4.0 systems between 2022 and 2025. The goal was straightforward: higher...
Hisense Europe deployed 47 new industrial robots and AI quality inspection systems across its Velenje manufacturing complex between 2023 and 2024. The investment totalled €12...
Velenje's metalworking ecosystem sits at a crossroads that defies conventional labour market logic. Across roughly 87 registered SMEs and three industrial anchors, the Šaleška...
Velenje registers an unemployment rate more than double Slovenia's national average. It also cannot fill its most critical technical roles for four months at a stretch. These...
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