March 1, 2009 | filed under: Press Company News Debris Series
We take it as an honor when blogs or news sites choose to review our products. Many times we only find out about these through our one of our favorite company’s, Google, and it’s Google Alerts.
Mother Earth News is one of the most reputable names out there as far as lifestyle blogs that strive hard to promote healthy, happy green lifestyles.
Regarding our Debris Series, they wrote:
“Other products, such as the Debris Series from Fireclay Tile, combine post-industrial and post-consumer recycled wastes. The Debris Series tile consists of 26 percent recycled granite dust (post-industrial waste) from a granite-cutting operation. It also contains 26 percent recycled glass (post-consumer waste). Plus, the glazes used by this company contain no lead, so they’re safer for the workers who apply them.”
All this is true. We might also add that our sustainable manufacturing includes a tremendous amount of re-use of our own materials, including everything from water, glaze residue, and of course the ceramic materials. In total we estimate that at least 60-65% of each ceramic tile we produce is made up of recycled materials, though we only give ourselves credit for recycled materials we obtain from other, non-Frieclay, sources in our marketing literature.
Please let us know if you’d like more information on our Debris Series or any other product by contacting us.
February 1, 2009 | filed under: Design Ideas Claymonde
The New Leaf Market in Santa Cruz just opened a Westside location and chose our Claymonde product to really bring the Seafood section to life. New Leaf wrote a great blog post about it and we wanted to share it and the pictures as they show the limitless possibilities of Claymonde. http://newleafwestside.blogspot.com/2009/01/rhapsody-in-tile.html
We love what they did with the design and the large format Claymonde tile!
January 1, 2009 | filed under:
For 2009 Fireclay Tile has added 16 new, beautiful glaze colors to our Debris Series to bring the total offering to 112 all natural, lead free glaze colors. Fireclay’s Debris Series is the largest offering of ceramic tile containing more than 50% recycled content, and the only ceramic tile containing a majority of recycled material that is post-consumer waste. Our Debris Series uses all locally sourced recycled materials along with sustainable manufacturing practices that additionally incorporate our own recycled waste clay, glaze, heat, and water.
December 30, 2008 | filed under: Design Ideas Press Claymonde
Our Claymonde product was highlighted in a nice blog post from the folks at Pope Street Modern. We love the Kiwi color they choose and their fun depiction of our product.
“Cathy is totally in love with that tile (she picked it out over a year ago), so we’ve worked to find things that would work with it. I’m thinking the shower will literally pop off the wall when we are done.” We agree! Thanks Pope Street Modern.
November 17, 2008 | filed under:
BottleStone, the revolutionary hard surface material using more than 80% post-consumer waste, was awarded the California Cleantech Open’s Grand Prize in the Green Building Materials category and $100,000. BottleStone was invented by Fireclay’s Founder Paul Burns and Bob Kirby and is a ceramic based product that uses no Portland-based cement and functions like granite and marble.
November 1, 2008 | filed under:
Fireclay Tile attended the GreenBuild Expo in Boston, MA. As part of the most pioneering, leading edge companies in the green building sector, Fireclay highlighted our Debris Series and BottleStone product. For more information on GreenBuild please visit: www.greenbuild.com
September 7, 2008 | filed under: Design Ideas Company News Showroom/Boneyard Debris Series
We loved this blog post from a local customer who highlighting using one of our Factory Showroom products (which we buy from Gladding-McBean) as a pizza stone!
We LOVE pizza here at Fireclay, and using this product makes a ton of sense in this way.
Thanks for the suggestion.
