About Fabrica de Pensule from different newspapers in time:

Paintbrush factory. A factory established in the old building of the Rendor leather factory, after the II WW, and the 1948 secularization, on Szamosközi street 59-61.



Rendor. Leather factory, Szamosközi street 59-61. The building site in 1914 belonged to a Renner Karolin, a member of the Renner family.


The head of the factory at the beginning of the 1940’ was Renner János. After the 1948 secularization, they converted the building into a paintbrush factory.




We read the following from the 1944 March edition of the “A huszadik század” newspaper:

http://www.huszadikszazad.hu/gazdasag/kitunoen-bevaltak-a-dermata-gyar-mutalpai

The Dermata factory footsoles are a great hit

We asked in one of Hungary’s biggest leather- and footwear factory, the Dermata, a few questions about the newest in the footwear industry. Here are the answers of the great enterprise form Cluj:

Since our return home, our factory participated both in clothing patriotic soldier’s feet, and the feet of everyday people. We please the popular demands in two ways. First we collaborate with the Ministry dealing with public benefits, we make work-ankle boots, and we take on demands for footwear that the factory can handle. On the other part, we produce wooden soled footwear (boots), without leather soles, of such quality that the poorer and more disfortuned social categories may afford.

Our factory also produces „artificial” soles, the so-called „cell-skin» soles. But we can only produce a limited amount of these due to the lack of sufficient raw materials. These soles have been a huge hit. We formed this opinion during the experiment period, and the evaluations since then have not let us down. We also haven’t received any complaints since we started marketing them; and there is a great demand for them as well.



[From the next publication of the paper]



The Dermata factory does not produce „cell-skin”

We last talked about homeland leather manufacturing concerning the Dermata factory and its artificial foot soles and other products. We have requested and received the information from the head of Dermata. They now asked us to correct the printed information, it seems that there was a mistake, namely that the artificial foot soles were named „cell-skin” soles.

The head of the factory also declares that this label is incorrect, because it’s not made from the cells of the skins, they’re made using fibers from the skins mixed with adhesive materials. So the correct label for these footsoles would be something like: “fiber- artificial-footsoles”.



We can read this about the Factory in the following articles:

The five categories of footware demanders:

The minister of public supplying and other people in high positions are working on the production and distribution of prime necessity articles. The advancements made so far are integrated in these policies and change the core of the continuity of the consume and maintain the standards of the accepted price-ranges in the Hungarian population.

The most relevant question of the day is footware supply for the population. As far as we know, the new order on this is welcomed by everyone in a positive way; the government is very optimistic concerning the satisfaction of all demands.

Some counties will receive the contingent for footware and sole leather.

The amounts of this will be sorted to the public by the counties. There will be a committee in each county in charge of the distribution. A shoemaker, a member of the committee, as a specialist in the field, calls the shots. Considering that they produce eight kinds of leather, the committee can’t do without a specialist- he decides what kind of leather footware works for certain demands.

The government also has in mind that when judging the demands, national standards should be considered.

So first those demands will be satisfied, that include the railway workers. After them, the target is the public employees that can’t fulfill their job duties without leather sole footware, mainly post office employees and such.

Then come those who can’t fulfill their calling, or job without leather sole footware. For example, miners. The fourth category is formed by the children. The child grows, and the family doesn’t provide him the necessary supply of footware. The other demands fall into the fifth category. These categorized guidelines will be strictly followed and kept.

The cities won’t have a committee. The mayor will fulfill that function, and judge the needs and demands following the above mentioned criteria. The small craftsmen won’t be able to demand footware in the future without a voucher, but they will recieve based on that voucher the amount of leather that is sufficient in a workshop. The production and distribution of wooden sole footware is absolutely legal. This is also the case of the existing rubber soled footware. These are produced from regenerated rubber. The distribution of fake leather footware is also legal, but unfortunately, there isn’t enough of these to satisfy the demands. Because they need „rubber milk” for the production of these items. In time for fall -according to news- there will be a larger amount of pigskin soles produced.