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Reflecting one of the most ambitious transformations in its 102-year history, the world's largest manufacturer of glass packaging, Owens-Illinois, Inc., (NYSE: OI) will begin doing business globally as O-I.
The amount of recycled glass used in making new containers has increased by more than ten times over the past year, according to figures released by trade confederation British Glass.
New figures from British Glass have revealed a 17% increase in the amount of UK glass packaging recycled in 2004 compared to the previous year.
Glass bottle maker Owens-Illinois Inc. said it expects to improve profits with its newly acquired European container company by trimming 950 jobs and production overseas.
At the NAHB Green Building Conference at Atlanta, Owens Corning today announced that its line of fiber glass insulation products has been certified to contain an average of 35 percent recycled content by leading third-party certifier Scientific…
Anchor Glass Container Corp. announced a 6-percent drop in sales for the fourth quarter of 2004. The Tampa-based manufacturer said it lost $81.4 million, or $3.30 per share, on sales of $157 million.
City leaders are hoping that glass container maker Owens-Illinois Inc. will consider its long history in the city when deciding whether to move out of its downtown headquarters.
In recognition of its inventive packaging design for pharmaceutical vials, Owens-Illinois Inc. has received an Ease-of-Use Commendation from the Arthritis Foundation on the 1-Clic(R) Packaging System. Owens-Illinois is a world-class supplier of…
Dubai Investments PJSC is planning to set up a manufacturing plant for float glass in the UAE at an estimated investment of Dh735 million.
Owens-Illinois, Inc., announced that Helge H. Wehmeier has been appointed to serve on the Company's Board of Directors effective January 25.Mr.
The Florida company that suddenly shut down its South Connellsville glass plant last November now faces a class-action lawsuit that claims the company violated a federal law when it didn't give approximately 320 workers a 60-day notice.
Sono-Tek Corporation (OTC Bulletin Board: SOTK - News), the world's leader in ultrasonic spray nozzle technology, today announced the successful installation of its WideTrack glass coating system on a production line of a major float glass…
As early as next month, Wichita residents may have a new place to take their empty cereal boxes, milk jugs, old newspapers and glass bottles.
Owens-Illinois has said it will not rebuild its glass container manufacturing plant in the Bay Area community of Hayward.
Owens-Illinois, Inc., (NYSE: OI) today announced that it received payments totaling 100 million British pounds sterling (US$163.0 million) in connection with the sale to Ardagh Glass Limited of certain long-term notes receivable.
An age-old admonition in politics and life in general holds that people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.
Corning to shut CRT glass plant Corning Inc. has announced plans to close its television glass joint venture with Japan's Asahi Glass Co.
New York City may not meet its July 2004 deadline for bringing back glass recycling, city officials said yesterday.The city suspended the recycling of glass and plastics in July as a budget-cutting measure, leaving only paper and metal recycling in…
Designed to provide unprecedented thermal conditioning for medium and high tonnage production, 340 technology represents a significant advancement in forehearth and distributor design.
The boards of leading automotive glass makers Asahi India Glass and FloatGlass India (FGI) on Thursday approved the amalgamation of FGI with its parent company Asahi India subject to requisite approvals.
The board of Taiwan Glass Industrial Corp. (Q.TGI) has approved plans to invest US$30 million in a new plant in China's Guangdong province, the glass maker said Friday.
Fraser & Neave Holdings Bhd's glass packaging division is looking towards China as its area of growth for the next 10 years, said general manager Sim Kuang Meng.
A one-year WRAP funded project aims to help increase glass recycling. BRE-led research will assess the recycling opportunities for non-contaminated, high-grade flat glass and non-contaminated timber and plastic profiles from the demolition and…
The market value of fabricated glass (encompassing basic flat glass as well as all value-added products, such as laminated, tempered, insulating and mirrored glass) is forecast to increase 5.2 percent per year through 2006.
No one is obliging us to change from glass to plastic bottles. And certainly no such agreement was reached during negotiations.Statements made to the effect that we will be obliged to change to plastic bottles, and that consequently we will have a…