"Recently, two luxury, modern and fast buses with airplane seats, heating, radio and speakers were purchased in France. With these buses, the factory will transport highly qualified experts from Zagreb to Karlovac every day."
"Karlovački tjednik" ("Weekly") no. 4., 1954.
The weekly writes that the production of several steam turbines for the navy has started (Split shipyards and 3. maj, Rijeka) and equipment and machines for the production of diesel engines have arrived from Bregana.
"Karlovački tjednik" ("Weekly") no. 30., 1954.
The name "Yugoturbina" was first mentioned in the local press on April 16, 1954 in "Karlovački tjednik" ("Karlovac weekly") no. 16 from that year. The "Edvard Kardelj" factory is no longer mentioned because the company changed its name.
The expansion of production, intensive development and the opening of new plants were in the observed period the basic features of the work and operations of Yugoturbina, which led to a larger increase in the number of employees.
In 1977, Yugoturbina employed 5,000 workers, and in 1986 it was 8,593, in nine years the number of employees increased by 2984. If the natural annual outflow is taken into account, it means that about 430 new workers were employed annually, or a total of 3870.
At the same time, the increase in the number of employees significantly changed the qualification structure, in which the educational level of workers with higher education is growing faster.
Such intensive development was followed and at the same time enabled adequate business results and a relatively good position on the domestic and world markets.
The overall economic and political situation in the former Yugoslavia and Croatia has always been extremely important and influential in the development of the factory. It is known that at the beginning of that period of the factory's development, the economic and political crisis in Yugoslavia and its republics was more and more pronounced.
All the factory's management, from its founding in 1949 until 1990, sought to overcome the effects of the economic and political crisis by constantly expanding production, market and strengthening the economic responsibility of individual productions.
The development of the factory in that period was especially marked by:
- organizational adjustments based on the Constitution and the Law.
- concentration of Karlovac metal industry companies around Yugoturbina.
- department of production parts outside Karlovac.
- further technological development.
"The construction of the first ship turbine with a capacity of 420 horsepower will soon be completed at the "Edvard Kardelj" factory in Karlovac.
Soon it will begin a production of 250-kilowatt backpressure turbines, which are now under design."
("Vjesnik", September 6, 1952)