Drvene konstrukcije d.o.o. is a small company from Vocin near Slatina in the Slavonia region which will build luxurious wooden apartment buildings for the city of Uppsala, the fourth largest city in Sweden.

The apartment buildings for Uppsala will be made of wood, whilst for the full visual impression they will be cladded by oak facade panels.

''We supply them with laminated structures, laminated oak elements and outer cladding panels for walls, roofs, external staircases, shelves and wine cellar staircases'', said Ivan Durcevic.

Radman Grupa from Zagreb initiated this small company into business with a final buyer in Sweden. Its ''entrance ticket'' for this job was recently completed project of the Pannonian wood competence centre in Virovitica, the building which was a prototype and the first of this kind in Croatia. The centre is a low energy building made of 400 to 500 cubic meters of wood material and one of the first projects which was implemented through the European Union Structural Funding.

''When the Swedish investors saw our centre, they were very impressed. The centre even resembles buildings that have been built in Sweden'', says the company manager Mario Abramovic.

At first only two houses will be built for the Swedish market, but there will be definitely more of them, some say, at least 600!

Last year Drvne konstrukcije d.o.o. exported 10 percent of its products, but the company expects these figures to jump 30 or 40 percent till the end of 2016. At the beginning the company had only eight employees but today it employs 40 people. The average monthly salary for workers is around 3,500 Kunas, whilst the average monthly salary for employees with a high education degree is 6,000 Kunas.