Owens-Illinois, Inc.: New Recycled Glass Processing Center Opens in Portland
December 16 2013 - 10:48AM
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Beth Peery
Regional Communications Manager
O-I North America
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Perrysburg, Ohio, US
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New Recycled
Glass Processing Center Opens in Portland
Glass to Glass facility to
supply local O-I manufacturing plant
Perrysburg, Ohio (Dec. 16, 2013) - A new recycled
glass processing facility in Portland will use advanced technology
and equipment to make more recycled glass available to be made into
new, sustainable glass bottles and jars.
City and state officials as well as members of the
business and recycling community attended a ribbon cutting and
grand opening event recently at the new Glass to Glass facility in
Portland, Ore. Glass to Glass is a joint venture formed by
Owens-Illinois (O-I), the world's leading manufacturer of glass
packaging, and eCullet, a technology-based recycled glass
processing company.
The Glass to Glass facility will supply recycled
glass to the O-I Portland plant located just a few miles away.
"O-I is pleased to partner with eCullet on this
new facility," said Pedro Tchmola, manager of O-I's Portland plant.
"Using recycled glass in our manufacturing process is important to
O-I's sustainability efforts. This new facility will help us to
reduce our use of virgin raw materials, lowering our overall
environmental impact."
Every 10 percent of recycled glass used in the
manufacturing process reduces energy costs by 2-3 percent and
greenhouse gas emissions by 4-10 percent, Pedro said at the
event.
However, it is sometimes challenging for glass
manufacturers to get the high-quality recycled glass they need.
Ryan Modlin, O-I North America's vice president of government
relations, explained that much of the recycled glass collected in
North America comes from single stream recycling, which mixes
paper, metal, plastic and glass. This collection process often
results in glass that is too contaminated to be successfully
re-introduced into the manufacturing process.
One of the reasons that O-I and eCullet chose
Portland as the site for their joint venture Glass to Glass
facility is the steady supply of high-quality recycled glass
available through the Oregon Container Deposit Program. The Glass
to Glass facility will also process recycled glass from Washington
that may have otherwise ended up in a landfill.
O-I and eCullet announced the joint venture
earlier this year and began construction of the Glass to Glass
facility in June. The construction supported approximately 75 jobs
and the facility will employ 15 people.
O-I's Portland plant employs about 200 people and
produces more than one million bottles per day, primarily beer
bottles for local microbreweries.
The joint venture was announced in May of this
year. See www.o-i.com/newsroom.
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About O-I
Owens-Illinois, Inc. (NYSE: OI) is the world's
largest glass container manufacturer and preferred partner for many
of the world's leading food and beverage brands. With revenues of
$7.0 billion in 2012, the Company is headquartered in Perrysburg,
Ohio, USA, and employs approximately 22,500 people at 79 plants in
21 countries. O-I delivers safe, sustainable, pure, iconic,
brand-building glass packaging to a growing global marketplace.
O-I's Glass Is Life(TM) movement promotes the widespread benefits
of glass packaging in key markets around the globe. For more
information, visit www.o-i.com or www.glassislife.com.
About eCullet
eCullet Inc. is a technology-based glass
processing company with corporate headquarters in Palo Alto,
California. The company utilizes its proprietary technology to
produce the highest quality, color-sorted, contaminant-free,
furnace-ready cullet which it supplies to the glass container
manufacturing industry. Through its collaborative partnerships,
eCullet helps glass container manufacturers reduce greenhouse gas
emissions, decrease energy consumption and preserve natural
resources while helping recyclers divert glass residue away from
the landfill. As an environmental technology company, eCullet takes
great pride in knowing that its role in the glass container
manufacturing cycle contributes to a sustainable planet.
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Source: Owens-Illinois, Inc. via Globenewswire
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