O-I Glass
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O-I Glass, Inc. is an American company that specializes in container glass products.<ref name="Owens-Illinois">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> It is the largest manufacturer of glass containers in North America, South America, Asia-Pacific and Europe (after acquiring BSN Glasspack in 2004<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>).
CompanyEdit
While legally known as Owens-Illinois, Inc.,Template:Citation needed the company changed its trade name to O-I in 2005 to group its global operations under a single, cross-language and cross-culture brand name.Template:Citation needed
The company's headquarters were previously located at One SeaGate, Toledo, Ohio. The headquarters were moved in late 2006 to the Levis Commons complex in Perrysburg, Ohio. The company is the successor to the Owens Bottle Company founded in 1903 by Michael Joseph Owens, who made the first automated bottle-making machine, and Edward Drummond Libbey. In 1929, the Owens Bottle Company merged with Illinois Glass Company to become Owens-Illinois, Inc.<ref name=oifacts>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Six years later, Owens-Illinois merged with Corning Incorporated to form Owens Corning.Template:Citation needed
In 1971 Owens-Illinois produced an early commercial plasma display, the digivue.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
Until July 2007, the company was also a worldwide manufacturer of plastics packaging with operations in North America, South America, Asia-Pacific and Europe. Plastics packaging products manufactured by O-I included containers, closures, and prescription containers. In July 2007 O-I completed the sale of its entire plastics packaging business to Rexam, a United Kingdom listed packaging manufacturer.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Owens-Illinois was a part of the Dow Jones Industrial Average from June 1, 1959, until March 12, 1987. The company was added to the S&P 500 Index in January 2009. Owens-Illinois was one of the original S&P 500 companies in 1957. It was removed in 1987 (after purchase by KKR), added in 1991 and removed again in 2000.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
In October 2010, Owens-Illinois Venezuela C.A was expropriated by President Hugo Chávez.<ref>Unión Radio: {{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
In May 2015, O-I made an offer to purchase the food and beverage glass container business of Mexican company Vitro for $2.15 billion.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The acquisition closed in September 2015.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
In 2020, a subsidiary of O-I Glass, Paddock Enterprises, entered bankruptcy following numerous asbestos lawsuits filed against the company. All of the company's asbestos-related claims were isolated within Paddock and separated from O-I's glass-making operations.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Partnership with NEGEdit
Owens-Illinois partnered with NEG (Nippon Electric Glass), to produce glass television screens at its Columbus, Ohio, and Pittston, Pennsylvania, plants in the 1970s through the mid-1990s before allowing Techneglas to take over the operations.
Environmental issuesEdit
Although it has not made asbestos-containing materials since 1958, Owens-Illinois invented, tested, manufactured and distributed KAYLO asbestos containing thermal pipe insulation from 1948 through 1958.<ref>History of Owens-Corning and Owens-Illinois and asbestos online Template:Webarchive</ref> Owens-Illinois remains a named defendant in numerous asbestos litigation matters throughout the U.S.<ref>Owens Illinois 10-K for December 2, 2009 listing liabilities (search asbestos)</ref> Some claims in these cases allege that Owens-Illinois was a participant in the seventh annual Saranac Seminar<ref>History of the Saranac Laboratory at Saranac Lake, New York Template:Webarchive</ref> when the cancer-causing potential of asbestos was studied in the 1950s.<ref>Dukes et al. v. Pneumo Abex (2008 Illinois appellate court opinion, search for Owens and Saranac)</ref>
As a result of a pattern of violations producing repeat emissions, its Oregon plant was fined in August 2023 by the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality. This was their 10th fine.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Anti-Labor issuesEdit
In 2023, I-O Glass was penalized by the Federal Trade Commission for its use of illegal non-compete bindings placed on former employees of the company.<ref>https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2023/02/ftc-approves-final-orders-requiring-two-glass-container-manufacturers-drop-noncompete-restrictions</ref>