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Broadly, modern glass container factories are three-part operations: the "batch house", the "hot end", and the "cold end". The batch house handles the raw materials; the hot end handles the manufacture proper—the forehearth, forming machines, and annealing ovens; and the cold end handles the product-inspection and packaging equipment.
In 1970, Guardian started producing flat glass with the newly invented float glass process. They opened their first production line in Carleton, Michigan and today the company counts 28 float glass lines and 13 glass fabrication plants around the world. In 1973, it began trading on the New York Stock Exchange. [6] From on 1980, Guardian started ...
The company name was changed to View, Inc. in November 2012 [6] and began shipping from its new factory near the end of the third quarter of 2012. [9] In 2015, the company's glass was installed at the new Overstock headquarters in Salt Lake City. [10] In 2019, the OAA installed View Dynamic Glass at its headquarters. [11]
The company's F. C. Ball machine, patented in 1898, introduced mass production into its glass-blowing process and gave it a competitive market advantage. By 1905 the company was producing 60 million canning jars per year and had acquired other glass manufacturers, expanding its operations to include seven factories in addition to its main ...
Bakewell Glass; Bakewell, Pears and Company; Ball Brothers Glass Manufacturing Company; Ball Corporation; Bellaire Goblet Company; Belmont Glass Company; Blenko Glass Company; Boston and Sandwich Glass Company; Brockway Glass Company; Bryce Brothers; Bullseye Glass
PPG expanded quickly. By 1900, known as the "Glass Trust", it included 10 plants, had a 65 percent share of the U.S. plate glass market, and had become the nation's second largest producer of paint. [4] Today, known as PPG Industries, the company is a multibillion-dollar, Fortune 500 corporation with 150 manufacturing locations around the world.
The Fourcault process is a method of manufacturing plate glass. First developed in Belgium by Émile Fourcault [ fr ] (1862–1919) during the early 1900s, the process was used globally. Fourcault is an example of a "vertical draw" process, in that the glass is drawn against gravity in an upward direction. [ 1 ]
Corning Glass Works was founded in 1851 by Amory Houghton, in Somerville, Massachusetts, originally as the Bay State Glass Co. [12] It later moved to Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and operated as the Brooklyn Flint Glass Works. The company moved again to its ultimate home and eponym, the city of Corning, New York, in 1868, under leadership of the ...