Slatitsa
Zlatitsa (Златица) | ||||
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Basic data | ||||
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State : | Bulgaria | |||
Oblast : | Sofia | |||
Residents : | 4687 (December 31, 2016) | |||
Coordinates : | 42 ° 43 ' N , 24 ° 8' E | |||
Height : | 611 m | |||
Postal code : | 2080 | |||
Telephone code : | (+359) 0728 | |||
License plate : | CO | |||
administration | ||||
Mayor : | Nonka Kamenowa |
Slatiza (also written as Zlatitca, Zlatica, Bulgarian Златица ) is a Bulgarian city. It is located 79 kilometers east of the capital Sofia and one to two kilometers from the sister city of Pirdop . Slatiza is the administrative center of the municipality of the same name. Until the early 1990s, the cities of Slatitsa and Pirdop were a common city called Srednogorie (Средногорие).
The city is located in the Slatitsa Plain (Bulgarian Златишко поле), which protects against strong winds and ensures a relatively mild climate.
economy
The largest employer in the city and the region is Aurubis Bulgaria AD (formerly Cumerio Med, Umicore Med and MDK Pirdop), the only large copper producer in Bulgaria that has belonged to Aurubis AG since 2008 . Since privatization in 1997, around 350 million euros have been invested in the further development of the plant, including around 80 million euros in environmental protection measures in order to meet EU environmental standards. This reduced the specific dust emissions by 90% and the specific CO 2 emissions by 54%. In October 2008, a new, ultra-modern facility for copper cleaning by electrolysis with a capacity of 180,000 tons of copper cathodes per year was put into operation.
Aurubis Bulgaria also produces around 1 million tons of sulfuric acid per year and employs almost 800 people. The large chimney of the copper smelter is 325 meters high and, together with the chimneys of the lignite-fired power plants in Maritza Ost, it is the tallest structure in Bulgaria.