The casualties of America’s loss of glassware manufacturing to China
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Hocking took over the Charleroi plant in March of 2024 and announced
they would close it and move operations to their plant in Lancaster,
Ohio — it too was a company founded at the turn of the century by Isaac
Jacob in Lancaster, Ohio. ...
... the U.S. glass industry lost almost 40,000 manufacturing jobs between 2000 to 2008. At the same time, China’s share of the U.S. market rose from 3% to 31%.
As
U.S. glass and glassware plants closed, Chinese manufacturers expanded.
China now leads glass production globally, exporting 28.7% of the
world’s glass and glassware compared to the United States’ 6.6%.
That is a hard pill to swallow if you are from Charleroi, once known as the “Glass City” where PPG once had one of its major glass factories. ...
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