ADEX Desde 1897 - Azulejo Decorado y Exportación S.L.

ADEX is a company manufacturing high quality handcrafted ceramic tiling. Its extense tradition began in the late 19th Century, created by a family which has now reached its fourth generation.

The company's history began in 1897, when Mr Miguel Piñón Castelló founded a factory called "La Glorieta" in the city of Onda (Castellón). This factory produced plain tiles or with floral decorations, which was fashionable in those years, and used the technique of paper stencilling. The manufacturing process was completely handcrafted, and the tiles were fired in ovens called "arabics", fueled with wood.

In 1940, his son Mr Miguel Piñón Guinot took the business over and founded a company called "El Siglo", where tiles were decorated using metallic stencils. It's remarkable that the company did already incorporate in the 50s a collection of 6 drawings measuring 20x20cm made by the famous painter Salvador Dalí. This produced an important sales increase both in the national and international market, turning the company into the first tile-making company exporting with a world-wide known design.

The third generation arrives in 1975, when Mr Francisco García Felipeneri is appointed director and changes the name "El Siglo" for ADEX. On a first stage, the company specializes in the manufacture of Valencian Baroque tiling, always mantaining the care and good taste when making each piece. Manufacturing now includes advanced technology in a handcraft process.

In the last years, his daughters Matilde and Cristina García, and his son Vicente García started working in the company and are now the fourth generation in charge of it.

ADEX is currently one of the oldest companies in the tiling sector.