Since 1971 Pottery Manufacturing and Distributing
has been committed to quality red clay pottery and unique hand
finished products. Still family owned and operated by President
and CEO, Carol Shaw and her son Scott Shaw who have both overseen
the transition from pottery made in Gardena, California to the
building and expansion of the 50,000 Square foot factory now located
in Tecate Baja Mexico.
Today PMD Signature Ceramics continues the tradition of
hand finished containers and unique NEW glazed finishes to expand
the offering to thousands of possibilities! We serve large scale
home and garden centers, landscape architects, designers and individual
gardening enthusiasts. We employ over 60 employees in our factory,
warehouse and offices.
We not only manufacture red clay and glaze pieces
in our factory; we also import full containers from AROUND THE
WORLD! Our Newly expanded 12,000 sq. foot showroom displays our
full offering from 1.5” pots to 40” in diameter clay
pots. Our Glazed pots range from 6” to 28” in Diameter
in for all your interior decorating needs. Visit our products
pages to see the unique product mix available locally in Southern
California.
Our factory, located in Tecate, Mexico, is
a premier pottery manufacturing facility, with a staff of over
30 people, and the capability to produce pots from 7" to
28" in diameter. We use three different types of production
at the Pottery Manufacturing and Distributing Factory. These production
methods are called Press, Slip Cast & Jiggered. Our Press
operation is a process where we mix our clay and squeeze it together
into the shape of the mold on our Ram Presses. Slip Cast is where
we use liquid clay and pour it into a two piece mold. This is
for items that can't be creating using presses like animals, angels,
and pumpkins. Jiggering is a process for making large pots over
20" that are too big and heavy to be pressed. We high fire
our pots at over 1850 degrees Fahrenheit. This means the products
we make are strong, long lasting and should be enjoyed for many
years as long as they have proper care and maintenance.
Our production facility spans over 55,000
sq. ft. Our installations are safe, clean and well-ventilated
which, together with our modern machinery and constant personnel
training, and Kaizan manufacturing process, allows us to achieve
the production volumes, design selection and packaging types requested
by our customers.
