Dive summary:
- Owens-Illinois Inc., a glass container manufacturer and Cullet, a glass producing company, are pairing up on a joint venture called Glass to Glass LLC.
- Glass to Glass plans on investing in glass-sorting techonology that can produce more high-quality recycled glass for use in O-I plants.
- Owens-Illinois operates 79 plants which will now receive as much recycled products as possible.
From the article:
“We are encouraged by the formation of this joint venture, as we believe we can improve the supply of recycled glass to our North American plants,” says Jay Scripter, vice president of regional integrated operations for O-I’s North American operations.
Scripter adds that using recycled glass to make new glass products will reduce the company’s use of virgin raw materials, and the new sorting techniques will increase the amount of usable glass available to O-I. ...
