Employee Spotlight - Ron Robinson, Jr
Lil Ron is the batch-master, the color-meister, the maestro of melting glass. He’s been with us for just shy of thirty years, and it runs in the family - we call him Lil Ron because his dad, Big Ron, worked for us for decades, too. We rely on Ron for all of the hard work that gets us from sand to glass – so he weighs, measures, mixes, batches, and loads the furnaces with our rich glass colors all week long.
We’re celebrating Lil Ron right now because WOW has he delivered the color this year! Without Ron, there’d have been no Malachite, Ganymede, Absinthe, Cerulean, Butternut, Heliotrope… In a year of so many furnace deaths, he’d have had his hands full staying on top of that; but to bring us so many incredibly memorable colors in one year? Wow!
We wanted to capture Ron in his portrait the way so many of us in the factory know Ron – a blur behind the scenes, moving from one furnace to another, checking temps, making adjustments. His nickname in the factory is ‘Gopher’ because there’s no telling where he’ll turn up next.
