Press Room

Score of 76 places EBP in the top 15% worldwide, reflecting its progress to Silver and reinforcing its sustainable business model as well as its relevance for architects, designers and international project stakeholders.

VitrA, in collaboration with the international design practice Snøhetta, presents Ceramics Forged in Light, an immersive installation created for INTERNI MATERIAE, the exhibition curated by INTERNI during Milan Design Week.

VitrA has received three awards at the iF Design Awards, a global benchmark for outstanding design. With these latest awards, the total number of iF Design Awards won by VitrA has reached 38, and the new honors have been presented to the V-Care 3 smart toilet as well as the Plural and Glora bathroom collections.

VitrA has unveiled a new partner programme exclusively for independent bathroom showrooms.

VitrA introduces Liquid - a new range designed in collaboration with Tom Dixon. Liquid is the first ever bathroom range by the acclaimed British designer. The rang

EcoVadis score has risen steadily since 2021, with the latest assessment earning Eczacıbaşı Building Products a Bronze Medal for sustainability performance, based on strong documentation evidencing environmental actions across company operations.

Steve Breen appointed Commercial Director – Europe for Eczacıbaşı Building Products

ISH, the world’s largest trade fair for building products, returns to Frankfurt from 17 to 21 March 2025, bringing together industry leaders and cutting-edge innovations.

VitrA has just launched its new washbasin made from recycled manufacturing waste, establishing it as the first and only washbasin of its kind globally. This innovation reduces global warming potential of its production by 30% per product, transforming materials once considered waste into valuable resources.

VitrA has won three more highly coveted awards from the design world’s oldest and most prestigious ‘Good Design Awards’ program. Two of the awards were given to the Liquid collection, developed in collaboration with British design icon Tom Dixon.

VitrA has increased its total number of Good Design Awards to 55, with two new awards from the globally prestigious Good Design Awards, a symbol of excellence in design.

Eczacıbaşı Building Products (EBP) has set up a solar power plant on the roof of its factory in Bilecik, Turkey. EBP aims to install solar energy panels on the rooftops of all its buildings by the end of 2025, with the objective of generating a total of 5.4 million kWh of energy in 2023 through the solar power plant.

Curated by Neyran Turan and coordinated by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV), the Pavilion of Turkey presents Architecture as Measure at the 17th International Architecture Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia, titled How Will We Live Together? and taking place from May 22 to November 21, 2021.

5th Istanbul Design Biennial opens to the public on 15 October

The ¨Meet the Designer¨ series by leading bathroom brand VitrA continue this Autumn with a talk featuring Italian architect and designer Claudio Bellini in discussion with the brand’s Design Director, Erdem Akan. The digital talk, hosted on VitrA’s Youtube channel, will be live-streamed on Tuesday, 29 September at 7pm BST (9pm ISTA).

VitrA introduces the Voyage collection, a collaboration with the award-winning multi-disciplinary artist and designer Arik Levy.

VitrA won three new Good Design awards in December 2020, on the 70th anniversary of this award program for outstanding design, raising to 40 the number of Good Design awards we have received to date.

Curated by Sevince Bayrak and Oral Göktaş, Ghost Stories: The Carrier Bag Theory of Architecture will be presented at the Türkiye Pavilion at the 18th International Architecture Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia between 20 May and 26 November 2023

Eczacıbaşı Buildings Products Bathroom Division (‘EBD’), Turkey's first and largest producer and exporter of ceramic sanitary ware, is pleased to present its Sustainability Report for 2021.

VitrA's Red Dot award-winning streak continues with three exceptional designs, including the Liquid bathroom collection by Tom Dixon, Resincrete, and ModePaper tiles.

The world's number one global design publication Wallpaper* magazine gives VitrA's new tile system Resincrete one of its highly coveted design awards.  Resincrete, the latest tile offering from ceramics powerhouse VitrA, received a prestigious design award in the Best Clean Living category from the Wallpaper* magazine.

Global ceramic sanitary ware market size is anticipated as USD 74.52 billion by 2028 and North America is estimated to gain robust growth. The company that manufactures VitrA, Turkiye’s world-class ceramic sanitary ware brand recently appointed Jeremy Cressman to oversee the brand’s imminent launch in the US

Liquid, a unique collaboration between Tom Dixon and VitrA, took two awards at the world-renowned International Forum (iF) Design Awards 2022. Liquid has already won design awards from both Wallpaper* and Red Dot, and at iF, it took a gold award, one of only 73 awarded, beating 11 thousand entries from 57 countries.

On 18 October 2023, VitrA, Eczacıbaşı Building Products’ flagship brand and Türkiye's foremost exporter of ceramic sanitary ware, accounting for half of the country's exports in this sector for decades, celebrated the inauguration of its latest facility.

urated by Mariana Pestana with Sumitra Upham (Curator of Programmes) and Billie Muraben (Assistant Curator & Deputy Editor), and organised by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV) with the support of Republic of Turkey Ministry of Culture and Tourism and under the sponsorship of VitrA, the 5th Istanbul Design Biennial will open on 15 October 2020. With a new structure that brings