A New Gas Kiln

We got a new gas kiln! It's a Formi kiln from Italy. 

It's much bigger than our other glaze kilns, So big in fact, it arrived with it's own forklift to get it off the truck and into our building!

There was a bad moment when we thought it wouldn't fit on the elevator...

but it just made it! (phew)

We cleared out a space for it and got it all set up. 

It can hold 3 to 4 times as much tile as our regular glaze kilns which are electric but first we'll have to run lots of experiments to see how our glaze colors react to the gas firing. 

Our R&D department is ready to put it to the test! 

Come visit our showroom and take a tour of our factory in the heart of Portland, OR. 

We'd love to show you around.  

Winter Holiday Clean Up

In 2013 we spent the Winter Holiday doing some major housekeeping. It worked out so well we did it again this past holiday vacation! 

This time we tackled the car kiln room. It was pretty dark and dirty back there...

With lots of old peeling paint.

So we gathered a crew and built some scaffolding above our custom made car kilns.

We cleared out all the stuff that collects in dark, neglected corners

We scraped all the old peeling paint off the great wooden ceiling and beams and set to work painting everything else white.

Just the new paint brightened things up but we also replaced all the lighting

A new year and a new bright clean kiln room.

Take a tour of our factory and see our awesome kiln room for yourself! Just give the Portland showroom a call at 503-231-9464 to set up an appointment.