Hemingray purchased by Owens Illinois

OWENS-ILLINOIS BUYS HEMINGRAY

AND O'NEILL MACHINE

Contracts have been entered into for the purchase of the entire assets and business of Hemingray Glass Co. of Muncie, Ind., manufacturers of glass insulators, and of substantially all the assets of The O'Neill Machine Co. of Toledo, Ohio, manufacturers of glass bottle blowing machines of the vacuum type, it was announced Wm. E. Levis, president of Owens-Illinois Glass Co., Toledo.

Hemingray Glass Company has specialized in the production of glass insulators for many years, and numbers among its customers the principal users of insulators for electric wiring in the United States. This business will become a part of the Industrial Materials Division of Owens-Illinois Glass Company, which has recently developed a number of new glass products, among them glass wool for building insulation and for air filtering installations.