Fireclay was today honored to meet our Presidio School of Management POL Project team. We have an absolutely incredible group of five students each tremendously committed to sustainability and triple-bottom line companies.
Enticed by Eric’s 1-hour shoddy video editing (see below), Team Net Zero (as they refer to themselves) is going to be helping us with some of our operational goals for the next 4 months. We are going to be focusing closely on both our operational efficiency and sustainability. Consider this a full company operations audit, as Net Zero will be focusing in on our sustainable manufacturing practices as well as helping drive improvement in our bottom line.
We look forward to sharing their results with you!
As a follow-up to our Newsletter we wanted to announce the winners of our First Trivia Contest. We asked the following question:
Trivia Question: Where does the name “fireclay” come from? Best answer as judged by Paul, our founder and chief ceramicist, wins. Submit entries by August 18, 2009 by emailing (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
The winners and the winnings were as follows:
First place - 2 sets of beautiful Cuerda Seca gift tiles: Jeffery Hellmuth
Runners up - 1 set of beautiful gift tiles: Adrian Crawford, Tyra Johnson, Therese Brown, Alex Moskowitz
The most creative answer came from Tyra who said:
“Here’s my guess. Paul’s middle name is Clay. And his last name Burns is a synonym to fire. As opposed to Burns Clay, he selected Fireclay.”
We look forward to our next Trivia Contest! Thanks for playing!
“A Mission Revival Rises Amid the Palms” - San Jose Mercury News August 8, 2009
Fireclay Tile was recently featured in the San Jose Mercury News for our reproduction of 100-year old tile from a Spanish-style Mission-revival house.
“The stark white house at the end of Plaza Drive in San Jose’s historic Palm Haven neighborhood takes you by surprise. It’s a small single story on a corner lot. But its domed tower and decorative parapet across the roofline force you to take a second look.
This is Michael Borbely’s mini-masterpiece — a recently completed Mission Revival house of stucco and tile that took years of research to create with the help of a local tile company to reproduce century-old details.
It’s not a big house, but it’s a flexible house,” he says. “I see this as able to double as a dining space” or a gracious area for wine receptions. A wainscoting of colorful tile, reproduced by Fireclay Tile, came from a 100-year-old photograph Borbely found.”
We were proud to be part of such a wonderful project!
