The company's main customer is the Houston brewery of St. Louis-based Anheuser-Busch.
The Houston-based glass plant now has one of the fastest glass-forming machines in the world, the company said in a press release. The overhaul allows Longhorn to increase production to 700 bottles per minute from 600 bottles per minute on one of its lines.
That translates into a maximum capacity of 17 million bottles a week, up from 15 million prior to the expansion and upgrade.
The factory stopped production on Jan. 24 and began a staggered start-up on March 20 before a complete return to full production this week.
Longhorn supplies about 90 percent of Anheuser-Busch Houston’s requirements for the standard 12 oz. bottle, including those for Budweiser and Bud Light, and supplies about 65 percent of the brewery’s total glass requirements.
Longhorn Glass restarts production after $40M upgrade
Date: 9 May 2011
Source: http://www.bizjournals.com
Longhorn Glass Inc. will be back in full production this week after completing a $40 million upgrade and expansion to its Houston bottle manufacturing facility.