German Design Award winners for the second time...

For the second year in a row, Mesa Ceramics has won a German Design Award. “Last year our Mesa Uno collection was distinguished as a winner by the German Design Award jury, and this year Yuki collection won the special distinction, both in the category - Excellent Product Design – Tabletop,” Francisco tells us. “Being such a young company, we believe that this is worth celebrating. It was a team effort, and we believe that the award is confirmation that our strategy, very focused on design, product differentiation, quality, flexibility, service and good communication, was right from the beginning.” made over the past three years, particularly in the last year, have been critical as they have allowed us to improve our service, capacity and production flexibility. Some investments have been made to improve the quality and comfort of our staff at the plant, others have helped us make the plant leaner and more efficient by improving our level of first choice products.

We have also invested in the sustainability of our factory by introducing new developments and production technologies, such as 3D tools and the environmentally friendly digitalprinting ink, allowing low emissions of ink gases minimizing the environmental impact of our beautiful designs. Digital printing also allows a decorated piece to go through a single firing process, whereas some other technologies would require double energy use. Mesa Ceramics only uses single firing techniques due to these technological investments. In addition to these two main concerns, there are also other small but certainly important changes. Glazing was changed to spray instead of dipping - this allows us to control the thickness of the glaze layer used on each piece, avoiding waste. The investment in switching from 100 per cent regular power to our own solar panels allowed us to reduce 164 tCO2/year, which is equivalent to the CO2 absorption of 7464 trees per year.

Mesa seems to be tapping into its artistic core more with digital printing technology – I loved Violeta for example. Will we see the brand explore this even more in the future?

Absolutely! We believe that digital printing is one of our strengths, as we were one of the first to develop it on stoneware tableware. We work very closely with our suppliers, inspiring them to continue to develop new and exciting technological solutions that allow us to make more interesting and artistic designs. At Mesa we are in close contact