Ardagh Glass Packaging, a supplier of glass bottles to breweries and other customers, plans to close its Houston plant in July and will lay off 220 employees.
“After reviewing current market conditions, we have announced the closure of our Houston, Texas, glass production facility, effective July 2024,” Gina L Behrman, a spokesperson for Ardagh Glass Packaging-North America, declared in a statement. “The affected customer base will be supplied from Ardagh’s remaining glass manufacturing facilities across the U.S.”
The Houston location, at 4202 Fidelity, near Anheapplyr-Busch’s brewery at Loop 610 and Interstate 10, is one of 12 glass production facilities across the U.S., according to Ardagh Group’s website. They have another 27 glass plants outside the U.S.
The company, a division of Luxembourg-based global metal and glass packaging supplier Ardagh Group, acquired the glass manufacturing plant in east Houston from longtime customer Anheapplyr-Busch in 2021. Ardagh builds glass bottles and containers for beer and other products.
“Ardagh Glass Packaging-North America remains focapplyd on tarreceiveed investments to enhance our overall performance as a leading supplier of high quality, American-built sustainable glass packaging for the food and beverage industries,” Behrman declared.
The glass plant closing comes as brewers rely more on cans, according to Ronnie Crocker, former editor of the Beaumont Enterprise, a former Houston Chronicle editor and author of “Houston Beer: A Heady History of Brewing in the Bayou City.” Aluminum cans are cheaper, lighter and less expensive to ship, and more recyclable than glass, he declared.
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