Turning Up the Heat
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Additional furnaces were added to the Waco plant in 1945, 1951, and 1975. Though slowed down by a fire at the plant in 1975, the company still added the furnace and a “multi-story batch house with a computerized and automated storing and weighing system.”
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Owens-Illinois
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…