Owens Illinois Glass Company

Increasing Production at Columbus, Ohio, and Muncie, Indiana

[Newspaper]

Publication: The Lima News

Lima, OH, United States
p. 9, col. 1


Ohio, Indiana

Tube Outlets

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TOLEDO (UPI) — Owens-Illinois, Inc., announced a multi-million dollar expansion program today to increase by 25 per cent the capacity of its two television bulb plants producing glass picture tube envelopes.

A new glass melting furnace will begin operations this month at Columbus, Ohio, for manufacture of tubes for use in the United States and abroad.

A glass melting furnace at the Muncie, Ind., plant is being converted for television bulb production and is scheduled for completion by next summer.

The expansion will bring to eight the number of furnaces Owens-Illinois has melting glass for production of black and white picture tubes.

Alec M. Turner, executive vice president, said the U. S. television industry was expected to produce more than 4.5 million color sets this year, an increase of 2.5 million over 1965, and black-and-white sets produced were expected to be down only slightly from the 8.1 million of last year.


Keywords:Owens-Illinois Glass Company : Hemingray
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Researcher:Bob Stahr
Date completed:January 29, 2005 by: Glenn Drummond;