Longhorn Glass Wraps Up $40 Million Upgrade at Houston Facility
Longhorn Glass in Houston has resumed full production after shutting down bottle making in late January to implement a $40 million capital upgrade. The project involved a re-bricking of the plant’s furnace, which now features expanded production capacity with one of the fastest glass-forming machines in the world. The plant supplies bottles to Anheuser-Busch's Houston brewery.
Longhorn had been producing approximately 820 million beer bottles a year, and the project includes a production expansion raising the total capacity by 70 million bottles per year, or about 8.5%. The plant overhaul will allow increased production from 600 bottles per minute to 700 bottles per minute on one of the lines.
Longhorn supplies approximately 90% of the Anheuser-Busch Houston brewery's requirements for the standard 12 oz. glass bottle and supplies about 65% of the brewery's total glass requirements. More
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