In and around Mezotur, the clay to be mined is of the best quality in Hungary.
The plotter’s craft settled here for the row materials has even several age-long traditions.
The 1518th year tax-register of the city had already contained a list of plotter craftsmen.
The typical industrial system of the Middle Ages, so called guild system was disintegrated under the nearly 150-year long Ottoman rule and reorganized only in 1817. However several wars and economic crisis had hindered the development of the handicraft trade, they could not waste it.

    At the turn of the XIX-XX. Centuries there were almost 100 workshops being run. Master craftsman Balazs Badar had even built up a fine reputation in Europe for himself and the city has been famous for its potter’s craft up to the present times. Due to the development of the manufacturing industry and trade of the country, in the first quarter of the XX. Century most of the private workshops went out of potter’s craft. Their role was gradually assumed by the Co-operative Society of Ceramics in 1951. The professional skill was able to be saved, improved and left to new generations even under bad circumstances through many centuries.

    The Turi Fazekas Kft was established in 1991 on the spiritual and material basis created by these ancestors. At the beginning of the 90’s the taxation law reflecting its culture policy has begun to supplant the traditional ceramics manufacture from the medium-sized workshop-system. This was one more reason for our firm to turn to the western markets, which have not been unknown for our managers even before, and we have set ourselves an aim to capture and keep these markets. This required a new production profile, technology and business policy to be taken into the history of the plotter’s craft in Master. 90 % of the products of our workshop employing 70-100 persons are distributed in the western-, more exactly in the Western –European markets.

    There are big store chains like IKEA as well as smaller shops and also marketing companies to be found among our partners.
    We are present at the exhibitions of Frankfurt Ambiente and Tendence regularly.