Material Changes

ID: 2455 ~ Source: Waco, Texas: Business and Industry: Owens-Illinois, Inc. Vertical File, The Texas Collection, Baylor University.
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Material Changes

Though in later years Owens-Illinois would produce plastic, the Waco plant always produced glass and therefore struggled when plastic became popular.

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By Anabel Burke
Owens-Illinois Inc., one of the largest glass bottle manufacturers in the world, originally came out of the famous Glass Capital of the World—Toledo, Ohio—in 1903. With its success came expansion, and the company opened a plant in Waco, Texas, on…