Production
The production of the company Motus CEE is located in the Maribor Refinery, which is one of the first refineries in the region with the 90-year long tradition. Situated in center of CEE region Refinery Maribor is central logistic, production and supply point of our organization which provides strong benefits for our customers as we enable prompt delivery to all surrounding countries and throughout all Europe.
The Refinery was founded in 1922 and has always been known for its dedication to the implementation of the new, modern technologies and its efforts to protect the environment.
1922 The company named MARA was founded. Besides the petroleum, it produced vaseline and petroleum tars.
1933 MARA is transformed into a mineral oil producing company named MOTOROIL. It employs 40 people and introduces the process of continuous distillation.
1947 MOTOROIL acquires new name “ Oil distillery and oil regeneration Maribor”
1952 The company becomes part of the JUGOPETROL, later known as PETROL, Ljubljana
1974 The company is transformed and acquires new name, MARIBOR REFINERY and remains the part of the Slovenian company PETROL
1991 PETROL and Austrian OMV form a “joint venture”, and the company is renamed into OMV-PETROL
1996 MAPETROL separates from OMV and continues to operate independently under the name MAPETROL. It obtains the ISO 9001 certificate
2008 The company changes the name into MARIBOR REFINERY, and Valvoline CEE from Croatia becomes the owner.
2009 The Refinery is a part of the company MOTUS CEE
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