page_title: Huta Stalowa Wola
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Huta Stalowa Wola / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Polish WR-40 Langusta 122mm MRL.
context_page_description: Huta Stalowa Wola is a defense contractor and steel mill located in Stalowa Wola, Poland. It is a major producer of military equipment.
context_section_description: It was established in 1938 in the Second Polish Republic. It was a major part of a series of investments made by the Polish government in the years 1936–1939 to create the Central Industrial Region. This was to be a group of factories built in an area in the middle of the country, away from the borders with Germany and the USSR. It was designed to provide a reasonably secure location for the production of armaments and high technology goods.
  The mill was set up in order to manufacture high alloy steels and weapons –  artillery and heavy machine guns –  in 1937. A city quickly grew around the mill, and took its name from it (the town of Stalowa Wola).
  In the 1960s and 1970s the company started production of heavy construction machinery, and in the 1980s, it was one of the major centers of oppositional activities (see 1988 Polish strikes). In 1991 Huta Stalowa Wola became a joint stock company.
  It is still the major employer in the town, and a major producer of military equipment.
  On 1 February 2012, HSW SA sold its construction machinery division to Guangxi Liugong Machinery.
  In 2012, HSW bought Jelcz-Komponenty Sp. z OO.
  HSW SA is part of Polska Grupa Zbrojeniowa SA.
caption: WR-40 Langusta
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