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Paragon Industries, located in Mesquite, Texas manufactures quality kilns and industrial furnaces. We build specialty kilns for ceramics, copper enameling, glass fusing, slumping, pottery, heat treating, silver clay, PMC, Art Clay Silver, raku jewelry, and much more. Our kilns come in a variety of chamber shapes and sizes. Select between top or front loading.
We build industrial furnaces for heat treating, dental, and knife making. We can even manufacture custom kilns and furnaces to your exact specifications. Over the years we have designed thousands of custom furnaces. So, chances are good that the design you need is already in our files. If you need an industrial furnace, get an estimate from us. Find out if you have been spending too much elsewhere.
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A finished piece created by a Paragon customer using one of our kilns or furnaces.
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The New and Improved F-500 Lampworking Kiln
Features of the new and improved F-500 lampworking kiln:
- Two flexible gaskets under each door help to retain the heat, even when rods are in the kiln.
- The ceramic fiber punty rod doors are now two inches thick.
- Adjust the rod rest without tools both horizontally and vertically.
- The elements are mounted in the walls and protected in recessed grooves.
- A mercury relay is standard on the F-500.
Before you buy a lampworking kiln, check out the size of the massive, beautiful Paragon F-500. |
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Maggie Sweeney Wins a Paragon Digital FireFly for Her School
Maggie Sweeney, a senior at Trinity Episcopal School in Richmond, Virginia, was awarded the Paragon Industries Test Kiln Award for her work in the 16th Annual National K-12 Ceramic Exhibition. Based on her ceramic work, her school will receive a top-of-the-line, Digital FireFly test kiln.
Sweeney’s work titled “Decay of Life” is a raku fired, wheel thrown and carved, white stoneware vessel. The piece is part of a larger body of work that Sweeney created in Trinity’s International Baccalaureate (IB) art program. “Maggie has an instinctive understanding about clay,” said Trinity IB ceramics teacher Lee Hazelgrove. “She constantly tries to push the limit with process and her technical abilities (like the athletic competitor she is). It’s been a joy to watch her work evolve and become such a dynamic collection of vessels.”
She draws inspiration from the natural scenery of life in sculptor Carol Alleman’s work and the whimsical, ab ...READ MORE  |
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Mary Wills Wins Paragon Caldera at Glass Craft & Bead Expo
Mary Wills won a Caldera and Bead Collar at Glass Craft & Bead Expo in Las Vegas, Nevada. Mary lives in Jerome, Arizona, a town of 450 residents in the central mountains of Arizona. Once a copper mining town, Jerome is now known for its musicians and artists.
Mary owns Nellie Bly Kaleidoscopes & Art Glass Gallery in Jerome. “The Nellie Bly is now the largest kaleidoscope gallery in the world,” said Mary. “My love of glass has grown out of my love of scopes. We have two kilns that we use for classes and for lampworked glass. Our new Caldera kiln will be the community kiln that we will use for classes and share with the five scope artists who live here.” ...READ MORE |
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