MILESTONES IN THE DEVELOPMENT

1896
Czech engineer Špalek acquires a mill in Kamnik and starts to manufacture metal parts and locks.

1908
Anne Hartmann becomes new owner.

1909
The company is taken over by dr. Hermann Bessemer from the firm Krainische Eisenwarenfabrik G.m.b.H. in Stein.

1911/12
The future president of SFRY Josip Broz TITO is among the workers at Titan.

1919
Production of first mortised door locks begins and the foundry is started.

1920
The foundry starts operation at present location.

1922
The company is renamed “TITAN” Hrvatsko dioničko društvo za trgovino željezom, Zagreb.

1925
The company is acquired by OLT from Osijek / Croatia.

1933-1939
Production of door mountings, furniture locks, coffee grinders, and mincers begins. In the years before World War II, the company experiences great progress.

1933
Production moves towards the manufacture of fittings, furniture locks, scales, weights, and different household devices. The factory survives the war undamaged, and it continues manufacture of the above-mentioned products intensively.  

1945-48
Titan becomes a state-owned company in the socialist state.

1962
Modernisation of equipment and start of production of cylinders.

1974
Launch of first powerful computer (IBM).

1990
Start of privatisation process.

1995
The company receives certificate ISO 9001 for its system of quality. For the quality of its products, it receives certificate DIN for cylindrical locks, which enables the firm to survive in foreign markets and to conquer new markets.

2017
The first robot is put into operation, and thus new investment in automation and digitalisation of manufacturing is made.

2019
Purchase, assembly and launch of new melting furnaces INDUCTOTHERM which enable stable and energetically efficient melt preparation.

2020
The company celebrates the 100^th anniversary of foundry activities.

2021
Envisaged launch of new treatment and cleaning system for fittings which will increase productivity drastically and replace several existing machines.

2023
Purchase of new machines for the production of cores according to the Croning process. Renovation of buildings after large-scale floods.

2024
Introduction of an automatic molding sand control system, which drastically improves the quality of the prepared molding mixture and reduces foundry scrap. Business expansion in the field of aluminum forging and high-pressure die casting