Description: 11% Specimen Bond printed by American Bank Note Company. Incorporated in 1987. O-I Glass, Inc. is an American company that specializes in container glass products. It is one of the world's leading manufacturers of packaging products, holding the position of largest manufacturer of glass containers in North America, South America, Asia-Pacific and Europe (after acquiring BSN Glasspack in 2004. Approximately one of every two glass containers made worldwide is made by O-I, its affiliates, or its licensees. While legally known as Owens-Illinois, Inc.,[citation needed] the company changed its trade name to O-I in 2005 to group its global operations under a single, cross-language and cross-culture brand name. The company's headquarters were previously located at One SeaGate, Toledo, Ohio. The headquarters were moved in late 2006 to the Levis Commons complex in Perrysburg, Ohio. The company is the successor to the Owens Bottle Company founded in 1903 by Michael Joseph Owens, who made the first automated bottle-making machine, and Edward Drummond Libbey. In 1929, the Owens Bottle Company merged with Illinois Glass Company to become Owens-Illinois, Inc.] Six years later, Owens-Illinois merged with Corning Incorporated to form Owens Corning. In 1971 Owens-Illinois produced an early commercial plasma display, the digivue. Until July 2007, the company was also a worldwide manufacturer of plastics packaging with operations in North America, South America, Asia-Pacific and Europe. Plastics packaging products manufactured by O-I included containers, closures, and prescription containers. In July 2007 O-I completed the sale of its entire plastics packaging business to Rexam, a United Kingdom listed packaging manufacturer. Owens-Illinois was a part of the Dow Jones Industrial Average from June 1, 1959, until March 12, 1987. The company was added to the S&P 500 Index in January 2009. Owens-Illinois was one of the original S&P 500 companies in 1957. It was removed in 1987 (after purchase by KKR), added in 1991 and removed again in 2000. In October 2010, Owens-Illinois Venezuela C.A was expropriated by President Hugo Chvez. In May 2015, O-I made an offer to purchase the food and beverage glass container business of Mexican company Vitro for $2.15 billion. The acquisition closed in September 2015. In 2020, a subsidiary of O-I Glass, Paddock Enterprises, entered bankruptcy following numerous asbestos lawsuits filed against the company. All of the companys asbestos-related claims were isolated within Paddock and separated from O-I's glass-making operations. Read more at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O-I_Glass Item ordered may not be exact piece shown. All original and authentic.
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Location: Portsmouth, New Hampshire
End Time: 2025-01-16T16:47:32.000Z
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