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CoorsTek
Golden, CO

Adolph Coors opened the Colorado Glass Works in 1887 to make bottles for his brewery. After a strike which halted production it was leased to John Herold who incorporated it with his Herold China and Pottery Company and never made glass again. Adolph Coors was the majority shareholder and bought the company in its entirety in 1914, renaming it the Coors Porcelain Company in 1920.

After the Second World War it started to produce technical ceramics and porcelain became less important, the name eventually changing to Coors Ceramic Company to reflect this in the mid-1980s. All the non-brewing companies were spun off in 1992 and in 2000 Coors Ceramic became an independent company, CoorsTek, initially a NASDAQ-traded organisation but later taken private again by a trust of the Coors Family, with John K Coors, a great grandson of Adolph, the original brewer, as president and chairman.

In the 1980s they started a project to make ceramic putters from zirconia (zirconium oxide) and later TTZ (transformation toughened zirconia). One was presented to President George H W Bush in 1992.

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