KILNCare have been making glass kilns since the mid eighties with great success but on a "build as requested" schedule, until a decade ago when we saw the potential in the UK, and the lack of a recognised glass kiln specialist. We discovered that the UK was crying out for a company that not only supplied kilns made specifically for glass, but who also understood the complexities and many pit falls of glass art and production.

So, our quest to become the best began. Our starting point was with one of our existing clients, the University of Wolverhampton which has one of the largest glass departments in Britain. With the help of the late Tony Adams, to whom we are eternally grateful, and the expert assistance from technician Jacqueline Cooley, course leader Stuart Garfoot, sculptor Ken Howell, and glass artist Vannessa Cutler, we set about in our task.

We looked at what was on offer, and brought in our extensive knowledge of higher temperature fields to produce the GLASSCare range of kilns. Kilns that are capable of much more than the glass process requires, and so offer vastly extended life spans and can often be accused of being over engineered.

Lee Sherwin, (KILNCare partner), took a particular shine to glass and it's infinite possibilities, and become a glass hobbyist himself attending night classes at a local college. A short time later, KILNCare became a company that not only sold glass kilns, but one who understood glass and what was required to work with glass.

Our reputation grew, along with our glass customer base, and suddenly we were putting kilns into the country's top Universities, supplying artists such as Sasha Ward, as well as countless other private artists and education establishments. Our success culminated in an order for the most adventurous glass casting kiln ever to be made in the UK, A 2.5m x 1.5m x 0.8m glass casting kiln for the National Glass Centre in Sunderland, which was ordered for and to be used by Professor Zora Palova.

KILNCare 2001