The company Klana d.d. from the village of Klana in Gorski kotar is one of the largest manufacturers of chairs in Croatia and in the region of Southeast Europe. The company has a very long tradition dating back to 1911, when timber merchant Anton Medvidić had a steam sawmill built in Klana with a frame saw and circular saws powered by a locomobile. At that time, the company was called A. Medvidić - Timber Industry and Trade. After a fire in 1917, the sawmill, which employed thirty people, was completely renewed. Since 1920, the sawmill supplied electricity for the public street lighting of the whole village.
After the Second World War, the company started its activity in Klana again in 1946. At that time, in addition to the sawmill, there was a joiner’s workshop, a mechanic's workshop and an electric power station, and after 1950 the company also had a larger fleet of vehicles and a transport department. In the 1960s and 1970s, the company shifted its focus to the production and export of furniture made of solid wood and plywood, as well as cabinets and beds. After 1976, in addition to a new refining unit (solid furniture and interior furnishings), a new sawmill, a log yard with an overhead crane, a power plant where sawdust and wood residues were used as fuel, and also a new drying kiln were built in 1981. At the beginning of the 1990-ies, the company changed its legal form and became a joint-stock company, specializing in the production of chairs over the years.
Today, the Klana company has a modern factory specialized in the production of wooden chairs. The factory has a capacity of 800,000 chairs per year and employs 350 people. Thanks to the state-of-the-art technology, the company is able to meet all challenges.
80,000 Positano chairs exported to France.
At that time a hall was built for the final processing of the chairs components.
The privatization and transformation of the company lasted from 1992 to 1997, and after that the factory has been specialized for the production of chairs.
Beginning of the production of design furniture and modular furniture sets made of MDF boards with oak-pine veneer, marketed as the furniture brand KERIN. At the same time we started the production of beds and wardrobes made of solid wood, mainly fir and spruce.
Sawn timber had been exclusively produced until 1965, and after investing in the acquisition of processing technology the production of finished products began. At that time beds, swings for children and tennis rackets were produced mainly for export.
At the beginning, the company was engaged only in the production of sawn timber.