Highest Quality
Factory Direct
American Made
Precision Industrial Ceramic
www.curranpfeiffcorp.com
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was founded in 1924 by C. H. Pfeiff, a ceramic engineer born (1885)
and educated in Germany. After completing his education in
England, he became manager of large ceramic manufacturing plant
there. Mr. Pfeiff emigrated to America at the invitation of General
Ceramics in New Jersey where he worked as a production manager
for several years before starting his own company to manufacture
ceramic Gas Mantle Rings And Nozzles– the main com-ponents in
Welsbach Gas Lights universally used in the international gas
lighting industry, then approaching it peak. Our company still
occupies its original site in Edison, New Jersey, named for Thomas
Edison whose laboratory was here and whose former workers we at
one time employed.
Mr. Pfeiff began to
develop a wide
variety of ceramic
"bodies" and glazes
and shapes that
filled the needs of
industries other
than gas lighting.
Although these
bod-ies and glazes
differed greatly from
one another in
reached their fired
maturity at the
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two crews working with their big shipment for Christmas Holiday!
greatly increasing simplicity and efficiency in kiln-firing (at that time
he had one large "bottle" kiln which was hand-stoked with coal and
took 48hours to reach 2450 degrees F.
varied and custom made formulas, were the primary bodies made at
Curran-Pfeiff Corp through the 1930’s, formed on hand presses and
extruding machines. During this time, studio space was added to the
growing company under the supervision of Mr. Pfeiff’s wife Theresa
and, through her, we began a 60year friendship with young Joseph
von Tury – already a well-known potter, ceramic artist and
consultant. Art pieces from Curran-Pfeiff Corp, and von Tury
porcelain represented New Jersey in the (1936) World’s Fair.
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business after
serving in World War
II, George Pfeiff
brought to it new
technology grounded
in his education in
the ceramic
engineering school
at Penn State
University,George
developed a family of
electrical porcelains
and glazes which
soon found use in
making new Porcelain
Wire Connectors,
were packing the shipment before Chistmas Holiday! Photo
was taken at Dec. 23rd,1934.
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production in co-operation with Bert Holub and in accordance with the
original Holub blueprints and standards. As production of these
climbed to 30 million pieces per year,he introduced into the operation
semiautomatic hydraulic presses and designed and built an 11
hour-cycle oil-fired downdraught kiln. Also, collaborating with Mr.
Steiner of Industrial Heater Co. George formulated silicon-carbide
compositions that Mr. Steiner needed for efficient heat transfer in his
design of the first band heaters.
Fall, It is vision from
front door.
mullite bodies, hybrid silicon carbide/alumina bodies and pyrax bodies
were added to our stock. Many of these compositions were (and
continue to be) specifically tailored or altered to meet customers’
specific needs.
enlarged to it present 26,000 square feet. Shortly after, Albert
Green, a well known and widely-exhibited potter, and his students
shared studio space with us and produced pots inspired by the
shaped and glazes of Chinese Song Potters and, in 1974, Joseph
von Tury (now world famous) permanently moved into Curran-Pfeiff
Corp his large-scale studio operation which his daughter, Mary Jo,
continues to oversee. Around the same time, George’s wife, Justine,
came in as Office Manager and his three sons brought, in their turn,
expertise and experience in design, laboratory-experimentation, tool
& die making and fine arts. Studio and lab space were increased
and two more walk-in kilns were added. And from that time until now,
when it has cooled and its door is opened, each kiln reveals an
unusually eclectic array of ceramic industry, science and art: you can
see stacks of silicon carbide saggers which hold our production –
thousands of grey rings, white porcelain connectors, tan cordierite
heating element holders and other items - and you can see setter
plates which hold the single prototype shapes, experimental bodies
and glazes, and handmade terracotta tile, and you can see, standing
amid these stacks and plates and gleaming in their clear and colored
glazes, shiny and matte, fine bright porcelain forms.
cotta, primarily the replication and replacement of tile in historic
buildings. Our tiles are in the War Memorial College in Washington,
D.C.: the Pennsylvania Railroad Station in Baltimore, MD; Grand
Central Station in New York City, and in the New York City Subway
System. We have replicated 100 year old Guastavino and
Rookwood tile. At present, among other areas of interest, we’re
investigating the “encaustic” tile process as perfected by Minton.
special hybrid cordierite-type material that, although fired at 2450
Degrees F and chemically restricted in choice of ingredients.Can
momentarily withstand a tem- perature of 10,000 degrees F. millions
of small parts have been used successfully in these conditions.
Joe von Tury’s supervision, Curran-Pfeiff Corp began adding slip-
casting (in various technical materials but primarily in highest-quality
white translucent porcelain) and the age-old method of hand pressing
plastic terra-cotta and earthenware in molds as well as decorating by
hand painting, spraying, dipping and decaling.
stays at 20,000 sq feet with three working lines occupying mass
production all the time.
