| Carl Harrop, a professor in the Ceramic Engineering Department at The Ohio State University, founded Carl B. Harrop Engineers at Columbus, Ohio in 1919. The previous year he had been granted a patent on a new type of car tunnel kiln, a device for firing ceramics in a continuous process which saved substantial energy over the traditional batch firing methods. Harrop's first project was to design two of these tunnel kilns to fire vitrified hotel ware for the Chelsea China Company in New Cumberland, West Virginia. |
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Harrop's core expertise began as, and continues to be, the design of industrial kilns for firing ceramic products. For almost a century now, Harrop has been accumulating a wealth of knowledge and experience in new kiln technologies to meet the ever changing firing needs of industrial ceramic producers. In serving these kiln needs, our clients have offered us additional opportunities to supply a variety of related services. Harrop has responded by diversifying over the decades with additional goods and services to the ceramic industry that support and augment our core kiln expertise. |