Sugar experiments in Trnava date back to 1838, when the Vaymari brothers founded the first sugar beet processing plant on Hlboká cesta. But because they were unable to modernize the company, production stagnated and ceased to exist after thirty years. Shortly afterwards, in 1868, a new sugar factory was established thanks to a foreign joint-stock company with a minority of local entrepreneurs. After their bankruptcy, in 1876, Baron Augustín Stummer of the Rothschild Financial Group became the new owner of the company. The modernization and expansion of the sugar factory damaged by fire in 1899 in the following years intensified production and increased production to such an extent that the Trnava Sugar Factory became one of the largest food companies in Hungary. After the First World War, the owner of the sugar factory intended to expand the factory buildings to Kamenná cesta, which did not happen in the end. Most of the employees were seasonal farmers growing sugar beet in the area. The novel The Piece of Sugar by the writer Petr Jilemnický, who worked briefly at one of the local schools, comes from the environment of the Trnava sugar factory and the life of small farmers during the economic crisis. According to him, the company was renamed the Petr Jilemnický Sugar Factory during the socialist period. An important part of international trade was the railway, through which sugar traveled to the Balkans and was further distributed from the port of Trieste to England and India. The transport of goods from the sugar factory to the city station was provided by a railway siding leading along the river Trnávka. Her reminder is a small steam locomotive nicknamed the "duck" from the end of the 19th century, which is exhibited at the Trnava railway station.
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