[Trade Journal]
Publication: American Glass Review Glass Factory Directory Issue
Pittsburgh, PA, United States
p. 8,10,14, col. 1
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News Highlights of 1963
...a month-by-month review of happenings
in the American glass industry during
1963, as recorded in the pages of
AMERICAN GLASS REVIEW.
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May
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Libbey-Owens-Ford enters into a licensing agreement with Pilkington Brothers for the Pilkington-developed float glass process. Compagnie de St. Gobain acquires a site for a float glass factory at Savigliano, Italy, expects to be first on the continent to use the float process.
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December
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Alastair B. Pilkington, Pilkington Bros. director, predicts that within a few years the float process will completely supersede plate glass.
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