Preserving Our Worlds Local products Primary School Bezrucova Trencin, Slovakia March 2010

Trencin region is famous for its industry and agriculture products. Trencin is a big fashion centre. We have a textile factory and a clothes factory. Trencin is called a town of fashion. We also make shoes in our region. We have a chemical production, engineering industry and a big machinery. We produce glass and furniture in Trencin region. We have sugar and diary factories and we breed fish around Trencin.

Sugar factory in Trencianske Teplice is one of the biggest sugar producers in Europe. Sugar is made from sugar beet there. It produces 1.6 million ton of sugar a year including icing sugar, granulated sugar, lump sugar and grape sugar. This factory is 110 years old. Sugar factory

Dairy In our region there is a big dairy factory. It is not far from Trencin in Nove Mesto. The factory produces more than litres of milk a day. More than 200 people cooperate to make a dairy products. Except of milk they also make yoghurts, ice cream, cheese including special Slovak sheep cheese called „bryndza “.

Around Trencin there are nice ponds. Our class went to see fish breeding in one of them. We could see carps, pikes, trouts, mackerels and salmons. At this place people can catch their fish, gril it or buy a raw fish for Sunday lunch or Christmas dinner. When the weather is nice families come to a restaurant and eat grilled fish.

Trencin is the town of fashion. There are three big factories connected with fashion – Merina, where cloths are made, Kara with its fur production and Odeva, where clothes, especially suits for men are made. Odeva was founded in It is one of biggest clothes companies in Slovakia. Each summer the big exhibition of fashion is held in Trencin. Fashion companies from all parts of Slovakia come to Trencin to present their clothes. Clothes factory Odeva

M erina is a textile factory, which was opened 103 years ago in Trencin. In 1913 there were 520 people employed and in 1950 it was 3,331 people! There were produced cloths like cotton,elastic fiber,polyester,in recent years cloths for car blankets. They were exported to countries like Germany,USA, Polland and so on.... Textile factory

Kara Kara factory produces furcoats,furcaps, jackets, trousers. Kara is nearly sixty years old. Furcoats are made from animal fur, like rabbit,fox or nutria.Lots of people do not like wearing animal fur, they prefer artificial one. We agree!

Lednicke Rovne The small town Lednické Rovne is located on the right bank of the river Váh. It is world famous for its blown glass production which was founded in It is one of the the last glass manufactures in Slovakia. Their exemplairs are stored in the Glass museum, which was opened in There is an exposition of glass products from the 17th century up to now.

Continental Matador Rubber Continental Matador Rubber is a rubber plant. The seat of company Matador is in a small town Púchov about 20 kilometres from Trenčín. It started its production 60 years ago. Company produces tyres for cars, vehicles, special tyres and conveyor belts. Main clients of Matador tyres are: Volkswagen, Škoda, Krone, MAZ, KAMAZ and Tatra. Their tyres are used all over the world mainly in: Germany, Great Britain, France, Great Britain, Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, Ukraine, Russian Federation, Romania, Belarus, Italy, Austria, Spain, China, India. The Company has almost 2000 employees.