Made In Washington
Made in Washington: Essential Baking Company
The Seattle-based bakery was founded in 1994 and now employs 350 people and packs and ships roughly 16 million loaves of bread a year.
This article appears in print in the March 2018 issue. Click here for a free subscription. Founded in Seattle in 1994 by George DePasquale and the late Jeff Fairhall, Essential Baking Company today employs 350 people who produce, package and ship about 45,000 loaves of certified organic bread each day roughly 16 million loaves a…
Made in Washington: Liberty Bottleworks
Our photographer visits the Yakima-based environmentally sustainable bottle manufacturer.
This article appears in print in the February 2018 issue. Click here for a free subscription. In Union Gap, just outside Yakima, Liberty Bottleworks manufactures the only completely customizable recycled-aluminum water bottles made in America. Founded in 2010, Liberty believes that environmentally sustainable manufacturing can take place in the United States. To date, it has…
Made in Washington #8: Cascade Designs
Campy Art: A photo gallery by Navid Baraty.
A tour through the assembly areas at Therm-a-Rest and MSR (Mountain Safety Research) in Seattles SoDo neighborhood produces a pleasing array of colors, shapes and textures. In the first photograph, rolled-up Therm-a-Rest NeoAir Camper SV mattresses await their final perimeter bonds. In the second photo, mattress fabric is cut to order and stacked before being…
Made in Washington #7: Bob Kramer Knives
Sharper Image: a photo gallery by Navid Baraty
If theres a hierarchy in the world of knife making, Bob Kramer Knives occupies a top rung. Kramer’s custom-made, carbon-steel chefs knives fetch prices of $10,000 and up and you might wait several years to get one. Kramer, who worked in professional kitchens before turning to bladesmithing in Seattle, moved to Olympia in 2005 and…
Made in Washington #6: Mutual Materials
Feats of Clay: a photo gallery by Sam McGhee.
At the Mica, Washington, brick plant of Bellevue-based Mutual Materials, hacker Scott George loads a 16-inch green brick onto a kiln car. Each car carries a tag that describes the style and color of the product being fired. Capable of producing 40 million bricks a year, the plant sits on 400 acres and ships around…
Made in Washington #5: Pocock Racing Shells
Shell Company: A photo gallery by Hayley Young.
Eric Carpenter of Pocock Racing Shells in Everett does a post-finishing tour around a four-person, coxless shell destined for the women’s crew at Duke University. Described as one of Pocock’s “less flashy” boats, this model is made of carbon fiber, fiberglass and syntactic resin and will likely be used for training. It sells for $21,000….
Made in Washington #1: Vigor Shipyards
Ship Shape: A photo gallery by Hayley Young.
You’re looking from below at the forward (and aft) end of the hull of the MV Suquamish, the newest vessel in the Washington State Ferries fleet. Being built concurrently with the MV Chimacum at Vigor on Harbor Island, the 362-foot-long Suquamish will be an Olympic Class car ferry capable of carrying 144 vehicles and 1,500…
Made In Washington #4: Cascade Hardwood Group
A photo gallery by Navid Baraty.
Day shift supervisor J.R. Flores, above, walks between stacks of Western red alder ready for the dry kiln at the sawmill of Port Angeles Hardwood. A division of Cascade Hardwood Group, Port Angeles Hardwood produces lumber from alder and other local hardwoods. Cascade Hardwood operates another sawmill in Chehalis; together, they employ 210 people. Cascade…
Made in Washington #2: Tsue Chong Company
Noodle House: A photo gallery by Hayley Young.
Liu Duo Jiang uses a mallet to remove the rounded hooks created by noodles hanging on the drying racks at the Tsue Chong Company in Seattles Chinatown-International District. Breaking the hooks makes it easier to process, package and ship the noodles to restaurants. Founded in 1917, Tsue Chong produces about 10,000 pounds of noodle products…
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