Glass plant to be built in Colorado

Date: 23 September 2003
Source: Billingsgazette.com

Date: 23 September 2003

The largest manufacturer of glass containers in North America announced this week that it will build its new $30 million plant on a site outside town.

Windsor beat out Cheyenne, Wyo., in landing the plant. The lack of infrastructure and a state tax break that Colorado offers hurt Cheyenne's chances, officials say.

The 500,000-square-foot Owens-Illinois, Inc. plant is expected to open in January 2005 and provide 150 new jobs.

Toledo-based Owens-Illinois announced in February that it would build a new glass container manufacturing plant somewhere in Colorado or Wyoming.

An expanded contract to supply 12-ounce bottles for Anheuser-Busch led Owens-Illinois to considering moving the site closer to the growing brewery.

The Windsor site was picked over Cheyenne and a site north of Greeley, which had offered the company a $1 million incentive.

In a statement, Owens-Illinois chairman Joseph H. Lemieux said Windsor was picked, in part, because of its accessibility to natural gas, power, highways and trains and the area's workforce.

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