Zasavska region
Zasavje, region of Central Sava
Facts and figures (2015)
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*Registered unemployed persons are registered with the Employment Service of Slovenia and are actively seeking for employment.
Source: Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia & AJPES, 2016
Location and transport
Divided in two halves by the Pan-European Transport Corridor No. 10, the Zasavska Region provides the gateway to Zagreb via the junction at Zidani most where the main line to Maribor leaves Corridor No. 10.
Population
The region is the smallest region in the country as regards both the area and the population.
Socio-economic characteristics of population in the Zasavska region, 2015
Population aged 15 years or more by activity status and education
Source: Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia, 2016
Towns
The regional centre is Trbovlje (16,500 inhabitants).
Other principal towns include Zagorje (16,700) and Hrastnik (9,400).
Companies
The most important companies operating in the region include:
- Bartec Varnost (development and production of explosion protected electrical devices)
- Dewesoft (innovative software and hardware solutions for entire business process)
- Diotec (customized solutions for semiconductor chips, packages and configuration of leads)
- ETI (manufacture of electricity distribution and control apparatus)
- Eti proplast (plastic products for electro-technical and automotive industry)
- EVJ Elektroprom (electrical installations, heating and plumbing)
- Lafarge cement (cement producer)
- Linea directa (call centre)
- Predilnica Litija (spinning mill, producing special yarns from natural and synthetic fibres and their blends)
- Rudis (engineering in the field of energetics, ecology, industry and special technologies)
- Sinet (services in the field of work safety, fire protection, security, environmental protection ...)
- Steklarna Hrastnik (technically demanding glass products)
- TKI Hrastnik (chlor alkali electrolysis products)
- Xella probeton SI (building material and thermal insulation panels)
Contact point
Regional development centre for the Zasavje region