Anchor Hocking Glass Timeline

1905
- Hocking Glass Company founded by Isaac Collins and EB Good
- Lancaster Carbon Company purchased

1924
- The original plant, nicknamed the Black Cat, burns down
- Plant1 built on the original plant’s site
- Controlling interest purchased -Lancaster Glass Co. (Plant 2)
- Controlling interest purchased -Standard Class Co.

1929
- 15-mold machine developed that could produce 90 pieces of glassware per minute enabling the company to offer low cost glass items and survive the Great Depression.

1931
- 50% of the General Glass Company is purchased
- General Glass acquires Turner Glass Company of Winchester, Indiana

1934
- The first one-way beer bottle is developed

1937
- Hocking Glass Company and Anchor Cap and Closure Corporation merge
- Name changes to Anchor Hocking Glass Corporation

1940’s
- Purchased Carr-Lowry Glass Company, Maryland
- Purchased Maywood Glass, west coast

1950’s
- Research and Development Center opened in Lancaster, Ohio
- Purchased Tropical Glass and Container Company, Jacksonville Florida

1959
- New facility built in San Leandro, California

1962
- New glass container plant built in Houston, Texas
- 2nd unit added to R&D, renamed the General Development Laboratory

1963
- Zanesville Mold Company in Ohio became a subsidiary of Anchor Hocking Glass

1968
- Plastics Incorporated acquired in St Paul, Minnesota
- Plastic plant built in Springdale, Ohio


1969
- Name changed to Anchor Hocking Corporation – “Glass” dropped due to product diversification

1970
- Phoenix Glass Company, Monaca, Pennsylvania purchased
- Taylor, Smith & Taylor Company, Chester, West Virginia purchased

1978
- Phoenix Glass Company destroyed by fire

1979
- Shenango China, New Castle, Pennsylvania purchased

1981
- Taylor, Smith and Taylor sold

1983
- Glass Container Division sold to Wesray Corp who used the name Anchor Glass Container Corporation for this division and maintained seven manufacturing plants and an office in Lancaster, Ohio.

1987
- Newell Corporation acquires the Anchor Hocking Corporation
- Clarksburg, West Virginia facility closed

1988
- Shenango China sold by Newell Corporation

1989
- Carr-Lowry Glass sold by Newell Corporation

2001
- Libbey makes unsuccessful attempt to purchase Anchor Hocking

2002
- Anchor Hocking sold to Global Home Products

2006
- Global Home Products and Anchor Hocking file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy