Was Trepca destroyed or did it suffer any destruction at all during the conflict with Serbia?
I will come very shortly to that point. Until 1964 almost nothing was invested in Trepca. Outside of Trepca a chemical industry was built, which was in a very difficult situation therefore it was joined to Trepca. In fact, during that time what the Englishmen had built was being used. Some changes took place in the economy of Yugoslavia, the provinces were given bigger rights for investments and Yugoslavia started getting loans from foreign countries. The development of Trepca is very closely related to the cooperation with international companies, both in aspects of financing and banking and in the aspect of technology. The big turn in Trepca happened in 1967, the first Battery Factory was built and for the first time, except producing the metals in blocks, Trepca started producing something more sophisticated, at least for that time. Later other departments within Trepca were established, such as the Institute for Technology, Enterprise for Foreign Markets, Trepca Bank, and it develo
