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The Owens-Brockway Glass Container plant in Northeast Portland is being shut down in a cost-cutting move by owner ...
Owens-Brockway is shutting down its Portland glass facility, affecting 90 jobs. The facility has been in operation in ...
In 1927, Owens-Illinois Glass Company’s 5-gallon bottle pyramid collapsed during a publicity stunt, sounding like a thousand bells in Alton.
Owens Brockway, the glass company that operates a recycling and manufacturing facility in Northeast Portland, announced ...
Unlike years past, like when Owens-Illinois founder Michael J. Owens, at the turn of the 20th Century, developed and patented his invention of the first completely automatic glass bottle-blowing ...
The Owens-Illinois Glass Containers' bottling plant in Sennett will not be revving back up after the holidays as in years past. According to a statement from Owens-Illinois, three of the company's ...
Four years ago a merger made Owens Bottle into Owens-Illinois Glass Co., biggest U. S. bottle maker, producer of 40% of U. S. bottles, and made William Edward Levis its active head.
The Owens-Illinois plant made beer bottles, as well as glass packaging for spirits and mayonnaise. At peak production during the 1970s, more than 900 people worked there, most making union wages.
Big rigs lined up at Waco's Owens-Illinois glass plant last week. The loads they hauled away may have been among the last, as attention turns to the shuttered facility's future.
The Kalama wine bottle plant at the Port of Kalama has been sold to Owens-Illinois, one of the nation’s largest glass container companies. O-I officials said its takeover of Bennu Glass LCC will ...
Owens Brockway, a division of Owens Illinois Glass Container North America, has recently reopened a glass bottle plant in Brockway, Pa., which had been idled since December 2000. Production in the ...
PERRYSBURG, Ohio — Owens-Illinois plans to close its innovation center in Perrysburg, according to an internal memo obtained by WTOL 11. The memo, leaked by an anonymous employee, shows the ...