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In 1987, Owens-Illinois made a bid of $60 per share (worth $750 million) to acquire Brockway, [3] which was met with resistance by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). [4] 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 ...
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 ...
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]
Nov. 10—LAPEL — Firefighters from several local departments battled a fire at the Brockway-Owens plant in Lapel. There were visible scorch marks along the north side of the roof of the glass ...
Two large stained-glass windows installed by Hartford City Glass Company's Belgian glass workers A New England Glass Company ewer , 1840–1860 A Novelty Glass Company advertisement in 1891 An electrical insulator made by Whitall Tatum Company , circa 1922
Owens-Corning Fiberglas Company was formed in 1935 through the merger of Owens-Illinois and Corning Glass Works. [8] [9] It became a separate company in 1938 with its headquarters established in Toledo, Ohio. [6] [10] In 1938, the company sales reached $2.6 million. [11] The company held its initial public offering on the New York Stock ...
The Hocking Glass Co. was formally incorporated Nov. 2, 1905, and Collins purchased the glassmaking equipment he needed from the Ohio Flint Glass Co. when it closed Feb. 11, 1906.
The exterior of the building is covered in 293,000 square feet (27,200 m 2) of glass, with 4,400 vision panels and 4,200 spandrel units between floors, representing Toledo's history as the "Glass City," and O-I's presence in the glass industry. One SeaGate driveway