Consumers Packaging Sells Canadian Glass Operations

Last month Consumers Packaging sold its Canadian glass operations to Owens-Illinois, headquartered in Toledo, Ohio. The new company is being called O-I Canada Corp.

While the facility changed ownership, recycling program operators will continue to market their glass to Nexcycle Industries, which have already developed a relationship with O-I Canada.

Pete Robinson, a spokesman for Nexcycle, says that a problem with green glass is the largest user, Molson, has stopped making the bottles in Canada.

The amount of material being processed by Nexcycle is around 6,000 tons a month, according to Robinson. The company had reached a peak of around 10,000 tons a month of glass containers several years ago.

Nexcycle has been shipping glass cullet to the three O-I Canada plants. Robinson points out the high cost of transporting the product more difficult to ship outside the province.