Tyrone Crystal

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Tyrone Crystal is a glassware manufacturing company in Dungannon, County Tyrone in Northern Ireland, which has an international reputation of producing fine quality glass products.

Glass making in Tyrone has a history going back as far as 1771, when Benjamin Edwards founded a company in Tyrone. Tyrone Crystal was set up two hundred years later in 1971, by Father Austin Eustace, to create employment in the area. A factory was built, and a glassblower was brought over from Austria^[1] (or Gurt Elsner from Germany^[2])^{[citation needed]} to train the employees.

In 1988 the company was awarded an ISO 9000 for quality — the youngest glasshouse in the British Isles to gain the recognised standard. A new factory, built in 1990, is also a tourist attraction. Tyrone Crystal acquired Tipperary Crystal in 2000 as part of an investment plan that spent £500,000 on a new visitors' centre that opened in 2001.^[3]

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^ [1] (retrieved 14 September 2006)
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^ http://archives.tcm.ie/businesspost/2001/06/24/story573012928.asp Sunday Business Post article £500,000 visitors' centre opened at Tyrone Crystal (retrieved 14 September 2006)