Litostroj

{{Verification|date=June 2022}}{{short description|Slovenian heavy machinery manufacturer based in Ljubljana}}

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Litostroj is a Slovenian heavy machinery manufacturer based in Ljubljana. Its products include mainly water turbines for hydroelectric powerplants. Most of the production is exported. It provided around 8000 MW of installed power worldwide. Around 150 of them are pumped storage. It has also designed around 1200 large cranes. They also manufacture forging and pressing machines.

The structure for the plant was built using forced labor by political prisoners from camps set up immediately after the Second World War.{{cite book |author1=Milko Mikola |editor1-last=Jambrek |editor1-first=Peter |title=Crimes Committed by Totalitarian Regimes |date=2008 |publisher=Slovenian Presidency of the Council of the European Union |location=Brussels |page=150 |url=http://www.mp.gov.si/fileadmin/mp.gov.si/pageuploads/mp.gov.si/PDF/poprava_krivic/Crimes_committed_by_Totalitarian_Regimes.pdf |access-date=May 23, 2019 |chapter=Communist Concentration Camps and Labor Camps in Slovenia |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304103807/http://www.mp.gov.si/fileadmin/mp.gov.si/pageuploads/mp.gov.si/PDF/poprava_krivic/Crimes_committed_by_Totalitarian_Regimes.pdf |archive-date=March 4, 2016 |url-status=dead }}

Its name is derived from {{lang|sl|Livarna in tovarna strojev}}, meaning "Foundry and Machine Factory" in Slovene.{{cite news |url=http://www.fm-kp.si/zalozba/ISBN/978-961-266-033-8/prispevki/Rot%20Tom.pdf |title=Organizacijska kultura ob prestrukturiranju družbe |language=sl |trans-title=The Organisational Culture at the Restructuring of a Company |first=Tom |last=Rot | date=November 2009 |work=Zbornik 6. študentske konference Fakultete za management Koper |page=821 |publisher=Faculty of Management, University of Koper}} Litostroj Street ({{lang|sl|Litostrojska cesta}}) in Ljubljana is named after the company.