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Thompson Enamel, Inc
In 1950, Woodrow Carpenter started
production of enamel in his basement at Frankfort, Indiana, in
competition with Thompson. The business was operated as the
Woodrow W. Carpenter Co. In 1954, the business was moved to
Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1958, Carpenter and Elmer Siebert formed
a partnership named Ceramic Coating Company, to manufacture
industrial enamel products. The factory was located at 1080
Waterworks Rd., Newport, Kentucky. In 1960, Ceramic Coating
Company and The Woodrow W. Carpenter Company merged and incorporated
as The Ceramic Coating Company. In 1962, the business was
moved to Wilder, Kentucky. The Ceramic Coating Company
purchased the Thomas C. Thompson Company on January 30, 1981 and
operated it as a division. The division was moved to Kentucky
in 1982. On December 31, 1996, the division was spun off and incorporated
by the Maehren family as Thompson Enamel, Inc. on
January 2, 1997. Manufacturing was moved to its present
location in Bellevue, Kentucky. Thompson Enamel's main product
is jewelry enamel. Since about 1985, Thompson Enamel has been
the only manufacturer of jewelry enamel in the western hemisphere.
In 1982, the Ceramic Coating Company, in
conjunction with the Thompson Enamel Division, began publishing
Glass On Metal, The Enamelist's Newsletter. This publication,
being one of the first of its kind, was intended to educate users of
enamel and the science involved in the enameling process and to be a
forum for the exchange of ideas and information related to the
process of enameling. The first four years of its publication
covered much of the science behind the process. Even today,
these early Glass On Metal publications are considered some of the
best resources for this type of information.
In 1986-87 Thompson Enamel organized The
Enamelist Society which kicked off with a conference, invitational
exhibition, juried exhibition and workshops in August of 1987 in
Cincinnati, Ohio. There have been nine conferences to date,
with the next conference planned to be held in 2005. Glass
On Metal started as a 12 page, black and white newsletter with
200-300 subscribers. By December 1987, the format expanded to
24 pages with 8 pages of color and membership in the Society has
grown to about 900 members. In June of 1994, Glass On Metal's
status as a newsletter was changed to a magazine format. There
have been 122 issues of Glass On Metal printed to date. For
more information about Glass on Metal Magazine, visit the web site, http://www.glass-on-metal.com.
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