Cardinal FG Begins Operation of Newest Float Glass Plant

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Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas). Cardinal FG Company, a subsidiary of management-owned S-Corporation Cardinal Glass Industries, Incorporated (Eden Prairie, Minnesota), has begun operation at the newest float glass plant in North America. The 550,000 square-foot plant in Winlock, Washington, will house a 650-ton per day glass melting furnace and float glass manufacturing line.

Toledo Engineering Company (Toledo, Ohio) provided engineering services, and Dreicor, Incorporated (Hendersonville, North Carolina) acted as the general contractor on the project. Site preparation began May 12, 2005. A ribbon cutting opening ceremony was held on September 26, 2006.

This is the second float glass plant Cardinal FG has opened in the last two years. In 2004, the company opened a similar sized plant in Durant, Oklahoma.

The opening of the Winlock plant represents the last project in a surge in spending by glass manufacturers in the U.S. that started in 2003. In September 2005, O-I opened a new $115 million glass container manufacturing plant in Windsor, Colorado, to supply the Coors Brewing Company with glass bottles.

Not counting annual maintenance projects and glass furnace rebuilds, the Winlock project is the last major grassroot glass plant or expansion planned in the U.S. with the exception of a new wine bottle manufacturing plant planned in Kalama, Washington.

For more information see related March 29, 2005 news article Cardinal Glass Continues with Glass Plant Expansions in the Western U.S. and November 20, 2003 news article - Cardinal Glass Developing Close to $250 Million in New Insulated and Float Glass Plant Construction Projects in the U.S.

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