The industrial heritage of Ivanić-Grad includes the period of intensive industrial development of Ivanić-Grad after World War II, when comprehensive oil and gas exploration began in the areas of the city and its wider surroundings.

The first research works in the area date back to the beginning of the 20th century.

That initial search for oil resulted in finding the first drops of oil from this area in 1949, when the first of the seven oil fields operating in the wider area of ​​Ivanić-Grad, the Križ-Šumećani field, was put into production.

At the end of 1962, the Ivanić field was discovered with a 3,046-meter-deep well, and in November 1963, the entire Ivanić oil field began operating.

In the 60s and 70s, numerous companies were founded in the area of ​​the city: MEBA; later Ivanićplast, Ivasim; chemical industry, TMPK; metal processing industry, ANTILOP; textile industry, 6.MAJ, later Ivakarton, cardboard, Agroposavina and many others.

Industrialization brought progress and prosperity, new schools and kindergartens, shopping centers, administrative centers and industrial plants were built, the first modern residential buildings were erected in semi-rural areas.

Ivanić-Grad was the cradle of training for working people of various professions and levels, for the needs of the entire former INA-Naftaplin and other companies that changed the economic development of the city.