O-I Glass, Inc. Completes Major Transformation of its Zipaquira, Colombia Manufacturing Site Investing Approximately $120 Million to Upgrade Sustainability, Flexibility, and Productivity of Plant
April 17, 2024 at 07:15 am EDT
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O-I Glass, Inc. completed a major transformation of its Zipaquira, Colombia manufacturing site investing approximately $120 Million to upgrade the sustainability, flexibility, and productivity of the plant. This is consistent with O-I's sustainability strategy, the company?s ongoing investments into plant upgrades, and aligned with its previously announced capital spending plan. A new furnace has been installed that incorporates well-proven oxy/fuel combustion and waste heat recovery technology.
The investments are set to increase O-I's flexibility to serve strategic customers and emerging segments in the food and beverage sector and improve energy efficiency, lowering CO2 emissions by up to 15% per ton produced on the new furnace. In addition to the decarbonization impacts, the new technologies also reduce NOX emissions by up to 50% compared to a traditional air fuel-fired furnace and allow for higher usage of recycled glass. At the Zipaquira plant, one of the large O-I plants in Latin America with more than 700 employees, approximately 100 new jobs were created in conjunction with the new furnace along with a larger number of indirect jobs in the region.
O-I Glass, Inc. is a manufacturer of glass container products. The Companyâs segments include the Americas and Europe. The Company produces glass containers for alcoholic beverages, including beer, flavored malt beverages, spirits, and wine. The Company also produces glass packaging for a variety of food items, soft drinks, teas, juices, and pharmaceuticals. The Company manufactures glass containers in a range of sizes, shapes, and colors. Its customers consist of food and beverage manufacturers, including Anheuser-Busch InBev, Brown-Forman, Carlsberg, Coca-Cola, Constellation, Diageo, Heineken, Molson Coors, Nestle, PepsiCo and Pernod Ricard. It has glass container manufacturing plants in the Americas region located in Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary and the United States. It has a distribution facility in the United States used to import glass containers from its business in Mexico. It has approximately 69 plants in 19 countries.
O-I Glass, Inc. Completes Major Transformation of its Zipaquira, Colombia Manufacturing Site Investing Approximately $120 Million to Upgrade Sustainability, Flexibility, and Productivity of Plant
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