Construction of the glass factory below Javořina mountain, within the cadastral area of community Strání in the domain from Lichtenstein, started in 1794. The area was chosen with a great care in the center of beech forests, not far from Uherský Ostroh, deposits of high-quality glass sand, and an old road to Hungary which used to be an important trade route in those days.

To cooperate on the construction of the glass factory whose budget was 9908,- guilders, Prince Alois of Lichtenstein called in architect Karel Rudzimský as well as chemist and glass worker Franz von Weisbach, who became the first glass-works manager.

The glass-works, equipped with two melting furnaces began operating in the middle of 1795. Not only local people but particularly glass workers from the neighbourhood and other areas of domains from Lichtenstein in Slovakia or Austria found a job here. Combining all these production traditions soon created a typical manufacturing pattern of the new glass factory, quickly gaining prestige.

From plain greenish glass, the factory produced various utility and table glassware but also dining glass, lamps, lamp-chimneys and even window glass, made of hand-blown cylinders.

From the middle of the 19th century, the glass-works started producing better sorts of glass. At that time, the factory was bought by Emanuel Zahn for the family firm Josef Zahn & Co. In 1780, the Zahns, coming originally form the Netherlands, set up a glass-shop in a Bohemian village Chřibská that was later moved to Vienna. Before it was confiscated and nationalized in 1945, the factory had been owned by this company.

The new owner built an additional glass melting furnace fired directly with beech wood and started producing fine crystal glass (with lime additive), decorated with grinding, edging and cutting. He was recruiting glassmakers from the glass factories in Bohemian Forest as well as from other parts of Austria-Hungary, most of whom travelled across half of Europe and thanks to their experience contributed to introducing new techniques and production methods.

More attention was paid to raw materials, particularly to glass quartz. Raw materials for melting were treated and prepared straight in the glass factory (potash, quartz).

Under the new proprietor the glass-works were commercially concentrated on Vienna, which was location of the parent company´s wholesale business and storehouses that served some of the bigger customers.

Emanuel Zahn went a long way towards expansion of the factory, improving the quality of production and expanding the assortment of table glassware – he introduced not only more sophisticated design demanded by his important and socially interesting customers but also many art impulses from the environment of Vienna.

Over the years of his activity began the production of ground glass painted table services, later also with etching in combination with gold. Last but not least, under his management the old traditions of today´s famous „květenská kalíškovina“ (special stemless cups made in Květná factory) were developed.

Emanuel Zahn´s son, Emanuel as well, used the dowry of his wife Amálie who descended from glass-industry family Göpfert, to build up the glass factory into a going concern.

He rebuilt the present direct firing of furnaces by beech wood to using producer gas generated from wood. He also built a new grindery where the water drive was replaced by steam drive. In 1894, perhaps out of gratitude to his wife and her dowry, he changed the glass-works name to Zahn and Göpfert bearing the trade mark Z & G and instead of Straňanská glass-works started using local name Květná (Blumenbach). This trade mark soon gained a countermark of quality and became very popular on the international markets.

Zahn & Göpfert set up showrooms and storehouses in London, Paris, Berlin and Hamburg and participated in the trade fair in Leipzig. At the turn of the 20th century, the second glass melting furnace on producer gas was built, etched glass decorated with techniques „panto“, „giloš“ and die stamping was added to the glassware assortment.

Květná glass factory was the second in Europe to introduce the etched glass production as early as 1897. English pantographs and „giloš“ machines Kutzscher were used for cutting various decorations.

Pantographs were advanced and powerful 24-position machines that made the manufacturing of decorated stemless glasses more effective. „Panto“ and „giloš“ became the glass-works widely developed techniques and in subsequent years the company had some of the etched peripheral „giloš“ decorations patented as registered designs. These came in combination with flame-cut decorations on the mouth rim of products, using precious metals.

Table services of that period, richly decorated with many plain and ground stems, soon won considerable popularity in the world, especially for the transparency and quality of the crystal molten glass and first-rate manual work.

At that time, decorated table services were exported to the United States, Africa, Germany and Switzerland.

In 1949, construction of a new brown coal generator station was launched and one year later, it was put into operation. Own manufacture of glass melting pots was closed down in Květná in 1952.

Towards the end of 1959 started glass production in the new glass-works hall, using advanced technology for tempering.

Building of the gas connection began in 1961 and it was finished two years later.

Between 1967 and 1969 was constructed a building for new heat treatments and it started producing in September 1969. At the same time, new storage system was introduced and after 175 years was put an end to transportation of glass in wooden crates.

In 1971, the company put into operation its first glass press for pressing cup stems. In the grindery, there was installed a French semi-automat for cracking-off and abrasion of cup and tumbler rims.

From 1975 on, the glass factory expands its production schedule by stemless glasses using „diaryt“ cutting technique.

Starting from 1976 the glassworks produces purple glass „zlatá roza“ containing gold preparation additive.

At the beginning of 1981, in the etch room, the first wax cuttings (i.e. the third generation pantographs with program control of cutting decorations into waxed products) are put into operation.

Between 1984 and 1985, a new hall is built, making it possible to produce smaller ranges of cartons for packing glassware straight in the factory. New entrance premises of the factory were built in 1991.

From 1961 till 1990 the glass-works belonged to one of the plants of the national enterprise Moravské sklárny (Moravian glass-works) in Květná.

From 1990 till 2002 it was part of the company Crystal a.s. Nový Bor. During this period, no money was put into the glass-works in view of the parent company strategy and its orientation especially towards the constantly growing proportion of automatically produced assortment in the entire production, as well as gradual reduction of manual work. This strategy came to a head in 2002 when the glass factory was closed down.

In same year, it was bought by Trade Union of employees from the glass, ceramics, costume jewellery and porcelain industry in Prag, the controlling shareholder, and the glass-works were open again.

New period begins in March 2004. Czech investment corporation Synex CZ a.s. becomes the majority owner. Immediately after the take-over, Synex embarks on consolidation of the company, puts money into the machinery, carries out a complete overhaul of the glass melting furnace.

New forms and designs of products are looked for, new customers are addressed, a new active trading system is created.