1967
Pavel Ledinek the founder of the company starts manufacturing joinery and cooperage woodworking machines for the Slovenian, Austrian and Croatian market at the location of the former cooperage in the city of Maribor.
1976
The Ledinek company appears at international forestry and wood industry fair INTERBIMAL in Milan (I) and the next year at LIGNA in Hannover (D). Since then Ledinek has been regularly exhibiting at world fairs.
1978
The opening of the new plant in Hoče for cutting and welding, today Plant 3.
1980
Industrial machines for working of solid wood, especially four-side planers and parquet machines replace manufacturing of joinery machines.
1986
The development of quality products required upgrading of business, from a workshop to industry. The company moves to the new factory in Hoče where Pavel Ledinek founds the first private enterprise in the former socialist Yugoslavia, today Plant 1. Organizations with private ownership and a hunderd of employees were rather an exception at that time and its establishment was a true recognition of the Ledinek products.
1989
Development and patenting of the ROTOLES milling system
"ROTOLES is one of the greatest achievements in the surface processing of solid wood in the last century. Currently, more than 1000 of Rotoles machines are succesfully operating all over the world."
Pavel Ledinek, the founder of the Ledinek company
