Glass Plant Reopens

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 newly refurbished plant began the middle of last month, two weeks before the official reopening on April 30. The plant will be making clear glass bottles for Miller and for Smirnoff Ice, and plans to make green glass bottles for Rolling Rock Beer in 2003.

The shuttered plant was completely stripped down and refinished, with two new bottle-making machines that produce bottles at the rate of 750 per minute.

Badger State Construction, Incorporated, of Eau Claire, Wisconsin, was General Contractor for the $16 million refurbishment project, and engineering on the project was done out of Owens Illinois' corporate engineering department. IndustrialINfo.com