History

Javorak until 2004

The wood processing in Montenegro and niksic has its origin in the end of XIX century, when in 1888 in Gornje Polje near Niksic was transferred the sawmill from Rijeka Crnojevica, which was, as the very first sawmill in Montenegro, built on that location in 1874. In 1930's of XX century, the sawmill that worked in tow shifts, due to a large-scale production, was built on the current location of Javorak. Shortly before the World War II, this sawmill became the biggest one in Montenegro. The owners were joint-stock companies Ombla and Treska from Belgrade. During the was major part of the sawmill was under the Italian management.

In 1948., by the act of state, a wood-industrial company was formed by the name of "1. maj" Niksic which dealt with wood exploitation and wood articles process.

In the '50 in Niksic there was Communal-joinery company for furniture production. At the end of the same decade this company was acceded to the "1. Maj" Niksic and Javorak entered the final phase of wood processing the furniture production. After a while, there was adjunction of the "1. Maj" to the wood holding from niksic when the wood-industrial enterprise "Javorak" was formed, or briefly SIK Javorak.

The decades that passed were marked by the great expansion of Javorak's finished products on both former Yugoslavia and foreign markets. Naturally, there were the prizes for quality as well: at the International Furniture fair in Belgrade in 1972 and 1978 SIK javorak won "the golden key".

The SIK's glory lasted until 1992 when the Trade Court from Podgorica voted the resolution of bankruptcy procedure.

Javorak from 2004

On April 2nd, 2004, Mi-Rai, the acknowledged furniture production company from Niksic, signed the privatization contract with the Government of Montenegro, thus giving a brand new life to Javorak: Javorak d.o.o. was founded and posed its foundation on the new basis, but on the other side it keeps on with the tradition long the whole century. This year (2004) we invested 1.800.000 EUR in reconstruction of the producing premises - revitalization of the present capacities, machines and acquisition of new technologies.

Today we do business on surface of 121.516 m2. To the industrial and commercial premises belong 22.272 m2. Other 91.178 m2 belong to local ways, parking lots, warehouses, manipulative spaces etc.

The concession for the woods exploitation in the next 10 years, given by the Government of Montenegro, enabled us to complete the producing process.