Explore End Markets for Glass
24% of annual Greenhouse Gas emissions are a result of industrial production. Glass packaging manufacturers have the capability to offset the use of raw materials (sand) with 90% recycled glass; drastically reducing CO2 emissions. The key is to keep glass in the supply stream. While the end markets for glass are plentiful, none prove as beneficial for the environment as packaging manufacturers reusing glass in a closed-loop system.
Below are leaders in our market paving the way towards sustainability and effective change.
Owens-Illinois
American inventor Michael J. Owens catapulted glass into the 21st century by creating the very first automatic glass bottle making machine in 1903! In 1929, The Owens Bottle Company merged with The Illinois Glass Company and the rest, as they say, is history. Today Owens-Illinois is one of the leading glass packaging manufacturers in North America and a powerful leader driving sustainable initiatives in the glass industry. With a system-wide goal of using 50% recycled glass by 2030 and the new “Glass Hallmark”, consumers can be a part of the solution!
Ardagh Group
Founded in 1932 as The Irish Glass Bottle Company in Dublin, it wouldn’t be until 1998 when the current namesake took shape. Now based in Luxembourg with locations that span across the globe, Ardagh Group aims for 100% renewable electricity by 2030!
Arglass Yamamura
Founded in late 2020, a joint venture with Japanese glass titan Nihon Yamamura Glass, this manufacturer is the youngest operation in comparison, but don’t let that fool you. Having built the first new U.S. glass manufacturing plant in almost a century, in Valdosta, GA, Arglass Yamamura’s plant operates a highly advanced facility with 82% less emissions and a closed-loop water system, eliminating industrial water waste!
O.Berk
Founded in 1910 by Osias Berk in Newark, NJ supplying industrial plants and food companies like pickle-packers. At that time, technology for mass production didn’t exist. The epitome of ingenuity, O.Berk’s solution revolved around glass reuse where bottles/jars were collected, cleaned and resold being distributed using horse-drawn wagons! To this day, the company is still family owned and operated, driving change and improvement across the supply chain.
Anchor Glass
In 1905, Isaac J. Collins founded the Hocking Glass Company in Lancaster, Ohio to make functional glass housewares. In 1937, the company entered the glass packaging sector. Today, the company has several manufacturing plants in North America, including Georgia!
Verescence
Originally founded in 1896, Henri Desjonquères built the first manufacturing plant for the company in Picardi, France with a goal to create luxury fragrance containers. Early on, the products were hand-blown! Today, Verescence is a global leader in the beauty packaging industry with U.S. manufacturing facilities in Georgia! The brand is synonymous with sustainability for perfume and cosmetics.