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2. Libbey Incorporated - Wikipedia

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   The sale was viewed as a negative sign for the industry, as earlier that year the Libbey-Owens-Ford Co. had considered (but ultimately decided against) moving its headquarters to Monroe, Michigan, while Toledo was still struggling to maintain its status as a significant glass exporter. Libbey would be spun off as an independent company, and ...

3. Libbey-Owens-Ford - Wikipedia

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   Libbey-Owens merged with the Edward Ford Plate Glass Company in 1930 to form Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Company. [1] In April 1986, LOF sold its glass business and name to the Pilkington Group, a multinational glass manufacturer headquartered in the United Kingdom. The remaining three business units of the company, Aeroquip, Vickers, and Sterling ...

4. Royal Leerdam Crystal - Wikipedia

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   In 2022, Libbey Glass sold the company to the Dutch Anders Invest Industrie Fonds. [3] There are about 600 employees in the Netherlands and Portugal with annual sales of about €120 million. [ 4 ] In the Netherlands, the headquarters and a glass factory are in Leerdam and there is a distribution center in Gorinchem.

5. Edward Libbey - Wikipedia

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   Edward Drummond Libbey (1854-1925) and his wife Florence Scott Libbey (1863-1938), ca. 1901. Edward Drummond Libbey (April 17, 1854 – November 13, 1925) is regarded as the father of the glass industry in Toledo, Ohio, where he opened the Libbey Glass Company (later Libbey, Inc.) in 1888.

6. Edward D. Libbey House - Wikipedia

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   The Edward D. Libbey House is a historic house museum at 2008 Scottwood Avenue in Toledo, Ohio. Built in 1895, it was the home of Edward Libbey (1854-1925), a businessman who revolutionized the glass making industry in the United States. Libbey and his wife, Florence Scott Libbey would later establish the Toledo Museum of Art in 1901. [3]

7. Riedel (glass manufacturer) - Wikipedia

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   These were used to stretch glass to make tubes for the six faceted cut and polished seed beads then in demand. On 6 March 1849, Josef Riedel bought a new glassworks, with his own money, from Ignaz Friedrich, a textile entrepreneur and glass trader. The new glassworks was based in Polaun near Klein Iser and had a wood-burning furnace.