Stoelzle Glass Group acquires US glass plant

Stoelzle Glass Group has acquired the Monaca, Pennsylvania glass factory from Anchor Hocking Glass Company. This transaction starts a new chapter for the Austrian multinational manufacturer of glassware with their first plant outside Europe.

With the Monaca, PA factory, the Austrian Stoelzle Glass Group, which serves its international customers in its four Business Units Pharma, Perfumery & Cosmetics, Spirits, and Consumer, opens their seventh glass plant and a new chapter with their first plant in the United States and first outside Europe.

“Our clear focus on manufacturing, service excellence and 200 years of experience led us to a global leading position and will ensure stability and business continuity to all customers of the Monaca plant,” explains August Grupp, President of Stoelzle USA Inc.

The Stoelzle Glass USA Inc. has lined up with a clear ambition of achieving outstanding results for and with the customer. Therefore, Stoelzle is bundling their experts and highly experienced specialists together with a tremendous amount of investments and modernisation in the next years to secure sustainable growth, paired with fulfilling the highest quality expectations to all customers and becoming the leading supplier for high-quality glass containers in the United States and North America.

“We are working on investment plans - the detailed of which is not decided yet; we are estimating the total amount to approximately US $50 million for the next 4 years,” says Stoelzle Glass Group CEO, Georg Feith.

In the short term, Stoelzle intends to continue with the plant current product portfolio which encompasses the spirits, food and consumer products sectors. However, Stoezle’s intention is to "premiumise" the product portfolio over the years. To that end, the investments could include the addition of certain decoration steps, as there is currently no decoration area in the plant.

“Our clear focus on manufacturing, service excellence and 200 years of experience led us to a global leading position and will ensure stability and business continuity to all customers of the Monaca plant,” said August Grupp.

Stoelzle Glass Group is one of the leading international producers of high-end packaging glass for the spirits, consumer, perfumery & cosmetics and pharma markets. With now 7 glass production sites, 3 decoration sites, and a total of 3,100 employees, Stoelzle is a one-stop shop for glass packaging development, production, decoration and closures.

Proud of the 200 years of successful glassmaking history, the acquisition of the Monaca glass plant is the first step to ensure the next 200 years of the family-run Stoelzle business.

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