The delivery and assembly of power equipment and machinery started at the beginning of 1914. In the deep of this work the World War broke out. The activities were interrupted but already at the end of 1914 the factory was put into operation. At first it was manufacture of small household equipment – shovels, racks, pot lids and also metal furniture. Later the factory switched over to war production and manufactured great numbers of army hospital beds. After the war the factory was converted back to the original production. More expensive goods were manufactured – chrome-plated furniture, home furniture with wooden accessories, varnished hospital and school furniture, kitchen scales and, later on, office furniture.

In 1938 the enterprise changed into a joint stock company with retrospective force since 1935. The entire stocks remained however at the property of the same owners. At that time the enterprise with its plants in Lysá nad Labem and in Duchcov belonged to the biggest in its field in Czechoslovakia and employed 700-800 employees.

In 1939 the head-office changed its seat from Prague to Lysá nad Labem. The World War II converted the plant to war production, again. The protectoral mint was organized in Lysá nad Labem. In May 1945 the national administration was imposed on Vichr and Co. as well as on the most of large enterprises –  till 1946, when the enterprise was nationalized and the national enterprise KOVONA was established. Based on the second stage of nationalization and reorganization of industry some changes took place with the purpose of concentration of manufacture of metal furniture and related products within one enterprise. The enterprise comprised the former plants of Vichr and Co., the joint stock company in Lysá nad Labem, the Mück-Melder plants and the factories producing metal furniture in Fryštát. In 1948 the enterprise incorporated several eminent plants in the field of metal furniture and related products: the factory 03 Hynek Gottwald in Brandýs nad Orlicí, 04 Františk Jergl in Brno, 05 Robert Slezák in Bystřice pod Hostýnem, 06 Trezoria Praha -Jinonice, 07 SAB Praha VI, 09 Robert Slezák Vysoká n. Kysucou. That concentrated production of metal furniture practically into one productive-organizational unit. Furthermore, the national enterprise Radovan Mělník that produced and repaired child carriages was fused with its affiliated plants.

In 1950 the organizational structure of the enterprise changed. The enterprise was divided into smaller units; a newly established national enterprise Kovona in Lysá nad Labem was assigned as a continuator and assumed the claims and liabilities of individual plants as well as the duties of the enterprise management in Prague . The production of metal furniture was divided as follows: 1. Kovona national enterprise in Lysa nad Labem with affiliated plants: 03 Brandýs n. O., Brno , 06 Jinonice, 07 Prague VII, 08 Hostivař. 2. Kovona national enterprise in Karviná with affiliated plants: 05 Bystřice p .H., 09 Vysoká n. Kys. 3. Liberta national enterprise in Mělník with affiliated plants 14 Třebíč, 24 Vojkovice, 15 Heřmanův Městec, 11 Litomyšl, 16 Počátky, 33 Malacky. 4. Factories for child carriages in Duchcov with affiliated plants 16 in Pilsen, 19 Kašperské hory, 25 Varnsdorf.

In 1950 the head office returned to Lysá n. L. and the enterprise incorporated the confiscated company F. Adam – a factory for gymnastic apparatus in Prague - Kunratice. A year after the former factory Vacek, and, later, Agrostroj were assigned as plant 02. These assignments created larger production areas and allowed to transfer to Lysá n. L. the production from the affiliated plants in Jinonice, Hostivař and Prague VII.

Further changes took place from 1956 to 1960 and were finished by the organization of: national enterprise, the enterprise head office in Lysá nad Labem, plant 01 Lysá n.L. - workshop Stříbro, plant 02 Bystřice p.Hostýnem with the plant in Lichnov and plant 03 Zábřeh na Moravě. The plant in Stříbro was cancelled and a new plant in Říčany u Prahy was organized. The national enterprise was changed into a state enterprise and was set for privatization process. In 1991 KOVONA LBZ Lysá n.L. was established by the resolution of the Minister of Industry; the state enterprise was cancelled without liquidation and the entire assets were assigned including all rights and obligations.

The head office in Lysá nad Labem manages the main plant and the activities of the joint-stock company as a legal subject. The plant manufactures mainly metal cabinet furniture and safety technique. The plant in Bystřice pod Hostýnem with the worshop in Lichnov manufactures metal seating furniture. Zábřeh na Moravě produces spring frames, bellows and spring units for furniture production.

By the end of 1991 the enterprise management worked out a privatization project which was discussed and recommended by the Ministry of Industry of the Czech Republic and was submitted for the approval to the Ministry of Administration of the National Property and Privatisation. In March 1992 the project was approved and the resolution of approval of privatization project was issued. The property for restitution was settled and sold to the company KOVONAX s.r.o. in Bystřice pod Hostýnem; and the assets of the plant in Zábřeh na Moravě were sold to the company M.K.R. Plus s.r.o., Krnov. On the basis of this decision the administration body of the joint-stock company was changed. The former Board of Directors and the Advisory Board resigned in compliance with the Joint Memorandum by the National Property Fund and the representatives of investment funds and companies and with the subsequent mandatory agreement in right of the funds owning over 70% of the total assets of the joint-stock company KOVONA Lysá nad Labem.