Kriva Fertigwerk
| Type | Private company |
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| Founded | 1756 AN in Kriva, Ranentsi Autonomous Region, Aerla |
| Founder(s) | Vasil Marinov |
| Headquarters | Kriva, Aerla |
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| Revenue | ₣31 million (1757 AN) |
| Employees | 210 (1757 AN) |
Kriva Fertigwerk is a privately held Aerlan modular construction company based in the town of Kriva, in the Ranentsi Autonomous Region (Fertigwerk is Commonspeak for "prefabrication works"). It was founded in 1756 AN to build small civic and institutional buildings for the towns and parishes of the Ranentsi country using factory-made panels. Its products include village schools, parish clinics, rail halts, depots, and municipal offices. In 1757 AN it employed about 210 people and reported revenue of ₣31 million.
History
Kriva Fertigwerk was founded in 1756 AN by Vasil Marinov in the town of Kriva, which was annexed directly to Aerla in 1711 AN rather than placed under the Ranentsi Autonomous Region. The works was built by local owners and hires within the region as a matter of policy, and it is regarded in the Ranentsi towns as a source of local employment and pride. It began by supplying two-classroom village schools, a type that has since become the standard for the small hamlets of the valleys between the Hazel and Ran Mountains, and extended from there into clinics and other small public buildings.
Products
Unlike the volumetric house builders, Kriva Fertigwerk works in flat panels. It manufactures wall, floor, and roof panels in its works and assembles them on site into finished buildings, a system that suits the single-story schools, clinics, halts, and offices that make up most of its work. The panelized method lets the company serve scattered rural sites without moving whole room modules by road, which matters in a region of narrow valley roads. Its two-classroom school type has been repeated across the valley hamlets and is the building for which the firm is best known.
Much of the company's work is paid for by parish and municipal borrowing from the Aerlan Infrastructure Credit Company, the chartered lender whose countryside mandate directs credit to the smaller municipalities and rural parishes. That lending is what has allowed the small Ranentsi parishes to commission new schools and clinics at all.
Organization
The company is privately held, with Vasil Marinov as managing director and Ivana Koleva as works manager. As of 1757 AN it employed about 210 people, drawn largely from the Ranentsi Autonomous Region, and its works remains in Kriva.
