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Owens-Illinois was a part of the Dow Jones Industrial Average from June 1, 1959, until March 12, 1987. The company was added to the S&P 500 Index in January 2009. Owens-Illinois was one of the original S&P 500 companies in 1957. It was removed in 1987 (after purchase by KKR), added in 1991 and removed again in 2000. [7]
After a Federal District Judge denied the FTC's request for an injunction, Owens-Illinois acquired Brockway's shares. [1] In 2018, the former Brockway Glass plant in Washington County, Pennsylvania (closed since the late 1980s) was awarded a $1.5 million grant from Pennsylvania’s Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program. [5]
Owens-Illinois Glass Company acquired Libbey Glass Company in 1935, but spun it off as a separate company in 1993. In June 1916, the Libbey-Owens Sheet Glass Company was organized, and in 1917 the first Libbey-Owens plant opened in Charleston, West Virginia. In 1922, a Libbey-Owens sheet glass plant opened in Shreveport, Louisiana, becoming ...
Owens Corning is an American company that develops and produces insulation, roofing, and fiberglass composites and related products. It is the world's largest manufacturer of fiberglass composites. [3] [4] It was formed in 1935 as a partnership between two major American glassworks, Corning Glass Works and Owens-Illinois. The company employs ...
The owner of the long-vacant 650,000-square-foot Owens-Brockway glass plant in Charlotte is expected to reopen it to manufacture aluminum drink cans. $100M investment breathes new life into ...
After it was purchased in 1935, it operated as part of the Libbey-Owens-Ford company and as a division of the Owens-Illinois glass company until 1993, when it was separated back into an independent company. [2] The company manufactures a number of glassware products, primarily tableware, drinkware and stemware. Historically, it was also ...
The city of Akron announced some changes to its popular glass recycling program on Thursday. ... New locations for bins: Kenmore Community Center overflow lot, 880 Kenmore Blvd.
Owens began working at J. H. Hobbs, Brockunier and Company at the age of 10. [98] After joining Edward Libbey's glassworks at the age of 29, Owens revolutionized the glass bottle industry by inventing a machine that would make bottles at high speed and low cost with consistency in size and shape.