Fireclay Tile Launches New Collection of Ceramic Sheets

Fireclay Tile, the U.S manufacturing company that has brought superior quality, innovation and sustainability to the tile industry for the past 24 years, is pleased to announce its newest tile collection, Claymonde.

Fireclay Tile's Claymonde are exquisite sheets of ceramic color, developed through a proprietary ceramic rolling process that allows Claymonde to be ultra thin yet also a durable, futuristic, lightweight, straight-edged large format wall tile. The ceramic sheet rolling method makes the tiles close to perfectly flat (~1/4" thick), while the ceramic fiber in the clay body provides some flexibility to the tile so that they can be pressed up against a flat wall surface. Fireclay hand glazes all colored pieces with its natural, lead free glazes.

Careful craftsmanship and sustainable manufacturing practices go into the glazing of the Claymonde tiles in Fireclay's day-lit, open air factory in Northern California. The glazes are made in-house and are lead free. All glaze over-spray is collected and recycled - any waste they do produce is inert and non-hazardous, as are the tiles themselves. The Claymonde glazing process is designed to minimize variation, thus enhancing the contemporary look of the product. Claymonde is now available in fourteen standard glaze colors with a sleek gloss finish that creates a shiny, semi-reflective sheen. Custom colors can also be created for larger projects. Claymonde is available in two standard sizes - 5¾ x 35¼" and 11 11/16" x 35¼" - and custom sizes up to 3'x6' are available for orders over 600 square feet.

"When I first saw the clay body I loved the large-size, ultra-thin ceramic form factor," said Paul Burns, Fireclay's Founder and Chief Ceramicist. "What it was missing, though, were vibrant colors that fit today's modern, contemporary market. We created a refined palette that so far has been extremely well received on both the east and west coast."

Claymonde is designed for both interior and exterior applications, and it is ideal for wall applications in commercial, residential, retail, and hospitality settings. So far Claymonde has been used on grocery store ceilings and walls, in restaurants on the exterior and interior, in residential bathrooms and kitchen walls, on fireplace surrounds, and in outdoor kitchens and mosaic designs.