By Greg Owens, Co-Founder Liberty Tabletop Thirty years ago wedding registries were a really big deal. This was the way that young couples set up their households with quality items that would last for many years, if not a lifetime. Tabletop, flatware, dinnerware, crystal, etc… and kitchen items from cookware to cutting boards were the…
By Greg Owens, Co-Founder Liberty Tabletop Sometimes the best ideas come from the shop floor, from people who put their blood sweat and tears into their work and are not afraid to get their finger nails dirty. This was certainly the case at Liberty Tabletop several years ago when Co-Founder Matt Roberts and I were…
* Article originally posted on RollCall.com. By Cameron Peters As the House slogs through more than 400 amendments to the annual Pentagon policy bill, debate has centered on the deployment of U.S. troops to the southern border, a potential ban on some lower-yield nuclear weapons,…
* Article originally posted on WAER 88.3 Syracuse University By Scott Willis Several Central New York companies gathered Thursday to share how they’re weathering the trade war now that tariffs and retaliatory tariffs are starting to be felt by many industries. The CNY International Business Alliance held its second monthly meeting, and director Steven King…
* Article originally published in the May 2019 Edition of Accent Magazine (a publication of the Observer-Dispatch & Gatehouse Media). By: Nichole Grant Have you ever flipped your fork over to see where it was made? If the flatware was purchased in the last ten years, chances are it says made in China or another…
*News release originally posted on reshorenow.org. Sherrrill, N.Y. (April 22, 2019) – Sherrill Manufacturing, Sherrill, N.Y., has received the 2019 National Metalworking Reshoring Award in recognition of the company’s success bringing manufacturing back home to the United States. The award, given by the Reshoring Initiative, the Precision Metalforming Association (PMA), The Association For Manufacturing Technology…
*This article was originally posted on syracuse.com. By Stan Linhorst | StanLinhorst@gmail.com Greg Owens is co-founder and CEO of Sherrill Manufacturing and Liberty Tabletop, the only made-in-the-USA flatware company. The company is the successor to Oneida Ltd., which grew out of the utopian Oneida Community founded in the mid-1800s. Owens’s office and the company headquarters are in a building…
STACKED UP — Spoons are stacked for a buffing machine as part of the manufacturing processes at the Sherrill Manufacturing company plant. (SENTINEL PHOTO BY JOHN CLIFFORD) *This article was originally posted on RomeSentinel.com SHERRILL — For the Sherrill Manufacturing company and its Liberty Tabletop brand, 2018 “was our best year since we started,”…
Meet Angela Squadrito. She’s a jack of all trades kind of gal here at Liberty Tabletop and Sherrill Manufacturing. Angela’s role in the factory range’s from running buffing machines, inspecting flatware, to building flatware sets and shipping flatware. Leading up to the holiday months, we are always in need of an extra set of hands…
*Originally published on Wirecutter, A New York Times Company By Michael Sullivan | December 4, 2018 Picking flatware is a surprisingly weighty decision, especially since the average American buys only three sets in a lifetime. We learned this from Matthew A. Roberts, president of Sherrill Manufacturing—the last flatware factory based in the United States—just one of…
