Functional Floor Plan

ID: 2459 ~ Source: Waco, Texas: Business and Industry: Owens-Illinois, Inc. Vertical File, The Texas Collection, Baylor University.
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Functional Floor Plan

The first office space at the Waco plant was located in a separate building off to the side, likely to mitigate noise for the office workers.

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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…