[Trade Journal] Publication: American Glass Review Glass Factory Directory Issue Pittsburgh, PA, United States |
· · 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. · · January · · 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. · · March · · Owens-Illinois Glass Company announces price increases averaging three per cent on food and dairy containers, returnable beverage, liquor and wine bottles. · · June
Owens-Illinois gets exclusive rights to electrostatic screen printing process for decorating and labeling "cold" glass products. · · 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. · · October · · New process, Spectraglas, is developed by Owens-Illinois for manufacturing colored glass containers in a wide range of shades. · · December · · Retired Owens-Illinois employees are given pension increase. · · |
Keywords: | Hemingray : Owens-Illinois Glass Company : Kimble Glass Company |
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Researcher: | Bob Stahr |
Date completed: | July 11, 2012 by: Bob Stahr; |