Part of the reason Acme could ramp back up its production was an affinity for the texture and color of its trademark red brick. In 2008, the factory felt the economic collapse and has yet to get back ...

It turned out to be so good as to color and quality that for a while the production of any fire brick was passed up.” Acme management experimented extensively with clays to produce a wide ...

who is a ceramic engineer and has worked for Acme for 18 years. After the water is mixed into the clay, along with minerals that give the brick its color, the brick is extruded out of the mixing ...

Acme Brick, which is headquartered in Fort Worth ... for the first campus buildings in Lubbock are almost identical in color to the ones used now. “Mother Nature isn’t consistent, so clay ...