[Trade Journal]
Publication: American Glass Review Glass Factory Directory Issue
Pittsburgh, PA, United States
p. 8-12, col. 1
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News Highlights of 1964
...a month-by-month review of happenings
in the American glass industry during
1964, as recorded in the pages of
AMERICAN GLASS REVIEW.
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January
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Three glass industry developments are included in the "hundred most significant new technical products of 1963" chosen by Industrial Research magazine in its "IR-100" competition: Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company's variable transmission glass; Owens-Illinois Glass Company's "glass resins"; and Coming Glass Works' Chemcor processes for chemically strengthening glass.
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March
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Owens-Illinois Glass Company announces price increases averaging three per cent on food and dairy containers, returnable beverage, liquor and wine bottles.
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June
Owens-Illinois gets exclusive rights to electrostatic screen printing process for decorating and labeling "cold" glass products.
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Owens-Illinois decentralizes top management functions in its Glass Container Division. Three new regions, each headed by a general manager, replace the former four, and the general office organization is realigned into four departments: marketing, manufacturing, administration, and research.
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October
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New process, Spectraglas, is developed by Owens-Illinois for manufacturing colored glass containers in a wide range of shades.
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December
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Retired Owens-Illinois employees are given pension increase.
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