Company first established in 1934; visitor Centre remains open.
Newbridge Silverware’s silver-plated cutlery factory officially closes its doors for the final time today after over 90 years.
The company announced in January that it would cease production will affect its 11 expert craftsmen.
The factory itself is to be converted into an immersive museum.
The visitor centre will continue to operate as normal in Newbridge, but production of its cutlery will no longer take place onsite.
The company, first known as the Newbridge Cutlery Company was set up in 1934.
The history of the factory stretches back to the early 1930s, when Senator William Cummins came up with the idea of using Newbridge’s skilled manual workers to venture into the cutlery-making industry.
They used waste material from old tram lines from Dublin for raw material.”
Present CEO William Doyle’s father, Dominic, along with four others, bought the company in the 1970s
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