Old Pueblo Women’s Club members toured the HF Coors Dinnerware in Tucson. — Images and Video by kenne
HF Coors – Dinnerware Made in the USA 100% is a certified Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business as well as a HUBzone certified dinnerware manufacturer located in Tucson, Arizona. HF Coors was founded in California in 1925 by Herman Frederick Coors, son of the renowned Coors brewery founder Adolph Coors.
In 1887, Adolph Coors opened the Colorado Glass Works to manufacture beer bottles for his brewery, the Adolph Coors Brewing Company. In 1910, the glass works were leased to German-born John Herold, who incorporated the Herold China and Pottery Company on the brewery site in Golden, CO. The company used clay from nearby mines to make dinnerware and heat-resistant porcelain ovenware under the trademark Herold Fireproof China. Adolph Coors Company acquired Herold China in 1914.
The company began producing chemical porcelain in 1915, following a World War I embargo on German imports. Adolph Coors’ second son, Herman F. Coors, was named manager in 1916.
Herold China was renamed Coors Porcelain Company in 1920, and the trademark “Coors U.S.A.” was first used. After World War I, Coors Porcelain made fine china and cookware.
During Prohibition, the ceramic business kept the brewery afloat. Herman left in 1925 to start the H.F. Coors China Company, a manufacturer of dishes for restaurants and institutional use, in Inglewood, CA.
HF Coors’ assets were acquired by Catalina China, Inc. of Tucson, and moved from California to Tucson in 2003. Today, they continue to manufacture dinnerware for wholesale and retail customers in this Tucson factory, where 100% of HF Coors products are manufactured. Source: HF Coors Website
