will cease combine harvester production at its Županja plant in Croatia Forbes Croatia reports that the Italian-owned SDF Group has decided to liquidate the Deutz-Fahr combine harvester division the former Duro Dakovic plant will cease operations on 28 February 2025 to allow the brand to focus on its core business of tractors and special machines for viticulture it is understood that the facility employed some 190 staff The decision to liquidate the company follows total sales for the group of €44.2m in 2023 Sales for the wider SDF Group amounted to over €2bn in 2023 It is believed that there were previous failed attempts to sell the company one of which was to a Chinese manufacturer Peak production saw the brand build over 400 machines annually The majority of these were retailed within eastern European markets Further strengthening the decision to end production has been blamed on a reduction of orders from the Ukrainian market as result of the war the brand has failed to further developments in recent years Contact us Advertise with us Company information Career opportunities Privacy statement Terms of service Commenting policy Change cookies settings Change cookies settings GEEN Holding AS has said it formally launched its second combined heat and power (CHP)… 0 The value of the investment is CZK 1 billion (EUR 39.2 million) and the company based in Brno revealed it expects to return it in five years The third such plant in the country will be in Gospić Earlier reports indicated ten to 15 people may work at the facility. Also before, a subcontractor said the capacity for electricity generation would be 5.8 MW in total of which 4.96 MW would be eligible for incentives and that the difference would be used for own consumption The main contractor is Đuro Đaković Termoenergetska postrojenja Doo (ĐĐ TEP) from nearby Slavonski Brod. Biomass to Energy Županja Doo, registered in Vrbovsko, is running the CHP plant The Benkovac unit is designed for 41 GWh of output The investor developed a similar blueprint for Gospić a town in the central part of the Balkan country Works are scheduled to be finished next year Total expenditure on the three projects is EUR 120 million Be the first one to comment on this article 02 May 2025 - The project is located in Constanța county recognized for its superior yields in green energy production 02 May 2025 - The Sunčana (Sunny) Vipava project envisages installing solar power plants with a combined capacity of 20 MW one of the largest wind turbine manufacturers in the world 30 April 2025 - OMV put into operation its 10 MW green hydrogen plant at the Schwechat refinery © CENTER FOR PROMOTION OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT 2008-2020 website developed by ogitive This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page Total Croatia News Visitors can see how people used to live in the area many decades ago The Golden Thread links Županja and the surrounding villages within 60 kilometres of the town and gathers together family farms associations that preserve the legacy and heritage of the area as well as accommodation and hospitality facilities All of them allow visitors to get acquainted with the rich traditions and heritage of the region but also to try to make their own traditional handicrafts in special workshops The travellers that find their way to this road can weave with their own hands or participate in the production of cured meats Visitors can learn about the old-fashioned way of life participate with the owners in everyday affairs of a family farm ride in a horse-drawn carriage… In short they can turn the history clock a few decades back and enjoy a less stressful era Every visitor will also experience all the shades of Slavonian songs and dance as well as a century old oak trees with undiscovered historical and ethnological sites and spiritual meditative oases what you should not miss under any circumstances while exploring the Road of the Golden Thread: Stjepan Gruber Museum in Županja situated at the last preserved border-watchtower in Croatia; horse-drawn carriage rides or horseback riding in the countryside; visiting rural households and learning about traditional handicrafts; touring picnic areas including options for an active vacation; a unique and unforgettable offer – tasting fruit brandies and liqueurs together with Slavonian dishes such as kulen accompanied with some exceptional melodies coming from tamburica and website in this browser for the next time I comment which is suffering from landslides and record-high floods resulting from record rainfalls within a few days in mid May Lily is raising money here to help her people back in Croatia have left hundreds of people homeless in Bosnia while thousands more were forced to flee their homes The disaster is “the region’s worst flooding in recorded history,” AP reported An estimated 3.1 million people out of a total population of 15.5 million have been affected by the floods in the Balkan countries of Croatia wrote the following about her town’s plight: The river Sava that flooded a third of Bosnia and killed a few dozen people earlier in the week was now threatening to flood our own town “We found out from someone’s Facebook profile what a dangerous situation our town was in This fellow citizen was alerting everyone to come out to the levee My husband Kreso and many others responded or army or first responders were there yet “Seeing the river rise 13 centimeters an hour .. the volunteers quickly realized the magnitude of the threat filling out bags with sand and building makeshift sandbag walls “I was growing more scared and concerned about my husband’s and my own safety Anxiety was growing among the volunteers also as they watched the river rising fast and not always having both sand and bags to keep on building up the lowest sections of the levee “The chaos on the levee increased my horror and kept me awake and glued to the news all night The river rise at Zupanja (peaked) at 1.5 meters above the levee Knowing that only the makeshift sandbag walls kept us from getting flooded had not brought me much reassurance And then I heard that the levee ruptured at the village Rajevo Selo “Not much later we heard of another break in the levee The water was gushing through the bottom of the levee in places the first sign of the levee getting ready to break under the pressure of the massive amount of water were filling out bags with sand as fast as they could I forced myself to get over the shock and start filling the bags I spent the rest of Saturday helping to patch up one weak area of the levee after the next wondering if the river was going to keep on rising and listening for a roaring sound of the levee breaking and flooding us too was flooded by the water that covered Rajevo Selo and Racinovci Even if they had packed their bags earlier when the threat came they forgot everything and (ran) for their life... “It was heartbreaking to watch what those people were going through I decided to go to our local Red Cross office and help That’s where I’ve been every day this week handing out the necessities to the refugees listening to their horror stories and cries “These desperate people from the Bosnian villages escaped from the flood thinking that they found a safe place in our town Our town has been housing refugees not just from the flooded Croatian villages Everyone is helping with what they can and everyone is being helped The same people who fought against each other only 20 years earlier have united under the common goal: to protect ourselves from the raging river and to help each other.” The niece ended with a plea for financial support: “Your donation will help buy building material appliances and food once when people will be able to return to what’s left of their homes.” To donate, follow the link in the box on this page or visit www.redcross.org and click on the “Donate Now” link has set up a fundraiser on the website CrowdRise visit www.crowdrise.com/HelpforthefloodedBalkanpeople Katarina Anđelković As Glas Slavonije writes and her book is about the first time football was played and the first time a ball was even held in Croatia It is about a segment of the past of the city on the river Sava about the time from the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century when industrialists from England arrived in Županja and built a tannin factory there because of the rich oak forests The picture book tells the story of love between the industrialist Fred and Šokica (traditional local lady) Katarina as well as the story of life in a Slavonian village about a hundred years ago.  The promotion guests were greeted by Hrvoje Tkalac director of the “Stjepan Gruber” Museum asserting that his colleague Marta had decided to show the city’s past in a charming way with her excellent work museum advisor from the Ethnographic Museum in Zagreb both as a museum worker and as a Županja native she is proud of the local team that decided to prepare a picture book the first museum publication of its kind in Croatia The story is told in a straightforward truly local picture book contains all the topics a story must have Nothing in it is made up; all the events really happened in Županja is the author of the glossary that appears on each page as well as the quiz at the end of the picture book She presented the picture book through a conversation with Marta Huber and academic painter Mislav Lešić – Đurakov The author admitted that she had been carrying the idea of writing for a long time she often meets kindergarten and school children so she tries to adapt the historical narrative for their age and circumstances would be more understandable to children thanks to vivid illustrations with a multitude of local natural and ethnographic peculiarities and details hidden on the pages an excerpt from the picture book was read by Mayor Damir Juzbašić at the end of the promotion The book can be purchased in the Stjepan Gruber Museum in Županja For more, make sure to check out our dedicated Lifestyle section Czech renewable energy producer GEEN Holding will soon start construction of its third biomass-fueled combined… Photo: Biomass unit in Benkovac (GEEN Holding) 0 The Czech company already operates two cogeneration facilities on biomass in Croatia. Last December, a power and heating plant was opened in Županja. The first one was commissioned in October 2018 in Benkovac the company will begin the final phase of preparing the site for the project in Gospić while the start of operation is expected in the first half of 2021 The company has invested EUR 80 million in the first two power plants GEEN Holding is not the only foreign firm to invest in biomass energy production in Croatia The Czech company has invested EUR 80 million in the two units in Benkovac and Županja Electricity from the CHP systems is distributed to the grid The holding also announced it plans to focus on increasing the efficiency of the units in Benkovac and Županja The company intends to use heat to produce pellets GEEN has ten solar power plants and six small hydropower plants (SHPPs) in the Czech Republic and Slovakia All photovoltaic or PV facilities have installed capacity of about 9.8 MW The Županja unit has the size of of 4.9 MW for power and 8.5 MW for heat Total electricity produced by all the firm’s systems is 113 GWh per year HIŠ management board chair Željko Zadro said that of the 202 workers of the Osijek Sugar Factory 81 had already agreed to the termination of their contracts and would receive severance pay Talks are underway with some of the workers to continue working at the Županja factory while some 30 workers will continue working in the Osijek factory’s warehouse while some might  find employment in the Žito Group HIŠ was founded in 2019 as a result of the merger of the sugar factories in Osijek Asked by reporters if this was the end of the sugar industry in Croatia Zadro said that “it’s a miracle we survived until 2020.” “Halting sugar production in Virovitica and Osijek was a difficult decision but it is the only one that guarantees that we will keep sugar production running in Croatia all three sugar factories would be closed next year,”  he said Zadro recalled that last year there were problems with contracts for the sowing of sugar beet with contracts having been signed to sow sugar beet on around 10,500 hectares in Croatia and 1,500 hectares in Hungary He said that HIŠ warned at the time that the area sown with sugar beet would suffice to keep only one sugar factory running but that HIŠ would invest additional effort to make it through another year “We hoped that sugar prices would rise that contracts would be signed for more hectares but unfortunately the harvest is near and none of that has happened We simply had to do this… to at least keep one factory running,” said Zadro the world’s best known consultant for the sugar industry had suggested that production costs would be the lowest at the Županja factory the suspension of production in Osijek was for good “We do not know if an agreement with Mercosur countries will be signed to enable the import of raw sugar in Croatia which would make it possible to open all three factories It’s difficult to say what will happen we have to be flexible and adapt to the situation but unfortunately we no longer have any reserves,” he said Asked what should be done to increase sugar production in Croatia Zadro said that in the old EU member countries an average 18,000 hectares of land is sown with beet per factory while in the new EU members the average is 12,000 hectares and he believes that with 12,000 hectares of land sown with sugar beet in Croatia and Hungary Croatian factories could have a certain future Asked if the sale of factory premises in Virovitica and Osijek was being considered Zadro said that the infrastructure in question was large and that it required careful consideration of steps to be taken next “You can start any production here because it can develop considering the available infrastructure I do not know the answer to that question for now and we have not discussed the topic with anyone yet,” he said Osijek Ferivi Half Marathon (Photo Osječki Ferivi Polumaraton/Facebook) 18th Osijek Ferivi Half marathon – 9th of April 2022  Craft Beer Festival in Osijek (Photo: Osijek CRAFT BEER Festival/Facebook) Craft Beer Festival – sometime in May (to be determined)  If you’re interested in breweries in Osijek, check an article from our intern Toni we go further East and present cities of Vinkovci and Vukovar Two historical Slavonian cities have a lot to offer with the support of surrounding small towns and their own events that enrich the lives of locals in Vukovar – Srijem County Flower Festival in Vukovar (Photo: Miroslav Slafhauzer/Turistička zajednica grada Vukovara) Flower Festival – end of the April  Flower Festivals are a common event in Slavonia (we already had one in Osijek during Women’s Day) a Flower Festival is held in the center of Vukovar which brings together local and regional plant growers and lovers of flowers and ornamental plants The Fair has sort of an exhibition and sales character which gives a completely different This event is also an overture for marking City Day Svi zaJedno Hrvatsko Naj Festival in 2019 (Photo: svizajedno.eu/Galerija) Svi zaJedno hrvatsko naj – cultural and tourist event – part of Vukovar City Day “Motorijada” in 2021 (Moto Klub Županja/Facebook) Motorijada by Moto Club Županja – 10th of April  Logo of the Festival (photo: Festival Glumca/Facebook) Actor’s Festival – all cities of Vukovar – Srijem County  Petrovačko Zvono event few years ago (photo: savezrusina.hr) There are a lot more events that need mentioning TCN will bring you stories from some of these events and part two of places to visit in Eastern Slavonia is already on the way Make sure to check out our dedicated travel section.