The "Filatura" (Raw Silk Rolling Factory from cocoons) was located in the town center, next to the shopping center "Stara Charshia". Nowadays, from the Filatura, there is only a small part with one chimney left, which is under the monuments protection of culture and is a remnant of the most profitable business in XIX century in Gevgelija. It is supposed that as a factory was built and opened immediately after the formation of Gevgelija as a town settlement by the brothers Lazar and Ivan Ralevi in 1936. Here were bought silk cocoons and processed into a silk thread. This is a product derived from silkworms grown in many populated places of the whole area. Gevgelija is mentioned as biggest silkworm producer on the Balkan Peninsula until the Balkan wars beginning. The factory has worked until 1951/52. Much of the tools and production machines can be seen in Veles Museum. They were carried there after the destruction of the Filature remains. At the place where the majority of Filature was located, today a residential and business complex was built.