Founded more than a century ago by glassmaking inventor Michael J. Owens, O-I Glass makes bottles and jars for food and beverage brands around the world. Headquartered in Perrysburg, Ohio, the company combines container engineering and brand-focused design with a global manufacturing network of approximately 19,000 people across 64 plants in 18 countries. Its glass packaging is 100% recyclable and infinitely recyclable, and can move from recycling bin back to store shelf in as little as 30 days.
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Graham PackagingGraham Packaging has been making custom plastic bottles and containers since 1970, when it began by converting metal motor-oil cans to plastic. Headquartered in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, the company now operates more than 70 locations worldwide and produces millions of bottles each year, pairing bottle design and engineering with manufacturing close to customers’ filling facilities. Its York-based Graham Recycling Company has made bottle-to-bottle recycling part of the business since 1990, diverting more than 300 million plastic containers from landfills annually.LANCASTER, PA
PlastipakFounded in 1967 to replace heavy five-gallon water jugs, Plastipak designs and manufactures rigid plastic packaging while also turning used containers back into food-grade recycled resin. The family-owned company now operates more than 40 sites across North America, South America and Europe, with over 6,500 employees and more than 420 U.S. patents. Its bottle-to-bottle recycling work and in-house Creative Package Studio connect package design, manufacturing and circularity in one operation.TREVOSE, PA
Greif, IncGreif traces its industrial packaging business to a cooperage shop opened in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1877 and now makes packaging solutions for life’s essentials through a global network spanning more than 30 countries. With more than 14,000 colleagues across over 250 facilities in 37 countries, the company has grown from wooden barrels to a broad packaging operation that includes steel, plastic and fibre containers as well as recycled paperboard products. Greif also places circularity at the center of its work, noting that its paper packaging business recycles more material than it uses.DELAWARE, OH
Potters Industries LLCSince Rudolph Potters developed a new way to make glass beads in 1914, Potters Industries LLC has manufactured glass microspheres that improve roadway visibility and industrial formulations. The company now operates as a $400 million global business with about 900 employees across 30 production facilities in 14 countries, and its history includes roughly 100 employee patents. Potters also recycles more than one billion pounds of glass each year and holds ISO 9001 certification.MALVERN, PA