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His machines could produce glass bottles at a rate of 240 per minute, and reduce labor costs by 80%. [4] Owens and Libbey entered into a partnership and the company was renamed the Owens Bottle Company in 1919. In 1929 the company merged with the Illinois Glass Company to become the Owens-Illinois Glass Company. [5] [6]
Pressed glass: The most important innovation for the 1820s was the development of machine pressed glass—pressing glass into a mold. [21] Although pressing glass by hand had long existed, mechanical pressing of glass did not exist until the 1820s—and it was an American invention. [ 29 ]
O-I Glass, Inc. is an American company that specializes in container glass products. [2] It is one of the world's leading manufacturers of packaging products, holding the position of largest manufacturer of glass containers in North America , South America , Asia-Pacific and Europe (after acquiring BSN Glasspack in 2004 [ 3 ] ).
Guardian Industries was founded in 1932 as Guardian Glass Company. The company was originally established as a small windshield fabricator. In 1957, the same year Guardian filed for bankruptcy, Bill Davidson became president of Guardian. [5] After three years in 1960, Guardian came out of bankruptcy.
In 1922, a Libbey-Owens sheet glass plant opened in Shreveport, Louisiana, becoming both the city's largest manufacturer and employer. This plant converted operations between 1972 and 1974 to Libbey Glass table-glassware manufacturing, which it continues today. In 1928, Libbey-Owens was the first company to produce automotive laminated safety ...
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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.
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