Slovenia followed in the 2000s. HAWE Hydraulik began to develop the Asia-Pacific market in1995. Initially this consisted of a cooperation venture with a sales and marketing partner in China. A sales office was set up in 1996. The final step toward Asia was the establishment of subsidiaries in China, Korea and Japan in 1998, and later in India, Australia and Singapore. The Munich-based company HAWE Hydraulik has evolved within a few decades into the globally operating HAWE Group .