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Handmade by California Artisans.  Based in the heart of California wine country, McIntyre Tile designs and produces handmade artisan tile for residential and commercial applications. Since 1972, we have developed a variety of innovative and high-quality product lines that are fashionable, versatile and unlike any other tile available on the market.
 

dedicated to quality
McIntyre consistently leads the industry through innovation and careful attention to every detail of the manufacturing process. All of our handcrafted tiles are custom made-to-order using fine porcelain and stoneware clays and our vast collection of high-temperature ceramic glazes. Our intimate style and distinguished design aesthetic results in a product that is unmatched in quality and durability.
 

dedicated to creativity
From the beginning, McIntyre has been known for its decorative tiles featuring hand-painted art work and hand-cut mosaics. The vision of translating the essence of studio art into field, trim and decorative tiles defined McIntyre’s approach of creating quality tiles inspired by everyday wonders.
Today, McIntyre embraces the fundamentals that started our business more than 40 years ago. Our legacy is inspired by the passion of expressing the beauty of art in each and every hand-made ceramic tile.

pools and fountains

McIntyre Tile offers the warmth and originality of handmade art for pools, spas and other outside spaces. Each tile is custom manufactured by crafts people dedicated to preserving McIntyre’s tradition of functional, natural beauty.

colour palette

mcintyre tile collections

california arts & crafts

streamline

classic porcelain

hacienda

classic stoneware

northcoast

mcIntyre practices environmentally responsible manufacturing mcintyre

Since 1972, McIntyre Tile has been employing the most environmentally responsible manufacturing methods available. At the start, we recycled an old wooden prune-drying building in Healdsburg, California into a small factory. Nearly 40 years later, we make all of our tile in the same facilities.

In general, materials that make up any ceramic product are inexpensive clays and minerals that most people would refer to as dirt or rocks. To a potter these materials can be precious. Our manufacturing systems are continually being adjusted to insure that those invaluable materials are used with utmost efficiency and conservation. We realize that when we take part of the Earth’s crust and fire it into tile, we have made something that has the potential to last as long as our planet. We consider that a humbling responsibility and take great pride in producing tiles of timeless beauty; tiles that upon closer examination are merely the ground we walk on recycled into a simple building material.

We consider recycling in three ways: first by formulating our clay bodies utilizing post-industrial waste materials that we purchase, second by processing internally produced scrap materials back into our clay bodies, and third by finding special markets for tiles that do not meet our exacting specifications.

The post-industrial waste materials that we use are ground brick and marble dust and can account for up to 50% of our clay body. Prior to being subjected to 2400 degrees Fahrenheit in our kilns, the materials that comprise our clays and glazes are blended with water. Clay manufactured but not used in tiles can be collected as scrap and recycled back into the production loop prior to firing. 99% of all scrap clay generated in the tile forming process is recycled back into new tile. 80% of all glaze over-spray is collected and recycled. When combining these factors, the resulting recycled content of any of our tile ranges between 50% and 85%. At present, we are not quite a closed-loop manufacturing facility and we still generate a small amount of material that cannot be reclaimed and must be discarded. However, our waste material is inert and non-hazardous and we are currently developing new products that will incorporate all of that material.

Tiles that do not meet our exacting standards for quality also find good homes. Virtually all our fired tiles are put to practical use. Cosmetic seconds are sold at the factory to buyers from all over northern California and beyond for use as a beautiful and practical surface material. Thirds and broken tiles are provided to artists and schools for use in public and private mosaic work.

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NEW TERRACOTTA

aged colonial spanish reproduction 

NEW terracotta

in-stock collections

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OPENING HOURS   

weekday:  monday - friday 9am-4pm 

weekend:  saturdays  10am-2pm          closed Sundays

warehouse:  monday - friday 8:30am-4pm

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CONTACT

address  #131-9 burbidge st coquitlam, bc  canada  v3k 7b2

phone: (604)222.2626    fax: (604)222.2612   

email: info@bullnosetile.com