The Glass Packaging Institute welcomes new member company

The Glass Packaging Institute (GPI), Arlington, Virginia, has welcomed a new member to the association, Arglass Yamamura. Additionally, Ripple Glass has renewed its membership.   

Arglass Yamamura is a glass container manufacturer headquartered in Valdosta, Georgia. Construction began in 2019 on what will be the first new U.S. glass container plant in nearly 20 years. The Arglass plant will serve food and beverage customer markets in the Southeast, with furnace operations and bottle production scheduled to begin in the fourth quarter of 2020.

Ripple Glass of Kansas City, Missouri, is a glass recycler and processor serving Midwest container and fiberglass end markets. 

“We are pleased to welcome Arglass Yamamura and Ripple Glass as members of GPI,” GPI president Scott DeFife says. “Both are taking innovative steps and showing creativity in expanding and improving glass manufacturing and recycling in the U.S. today. I look forward to working with them to help grow markets for glass and showcase glass containers as the most sustainable domestic package in the circular economy.” 

“Arglass Yamamura is honored to become a new member of GPI," founder and CEO of Arglass Yamamura Jose de Diego Arozamena says. "As a new glass container manufacturing company, our goal is to help glass become the preferred packaging material for those producers and consumers that need a flexible, efficient, and sustainable solution for their glass container packaging. We look forward to working together with GPI in promoting glass as the preferred packaging material for those consumers looking for a safe, attractive, dynamic and sustainable packaging material.” 

“Ripple is excited to support the efforts of the GPI under exciting leadership and look forward to a bright future for glass packaging use and recycling,” Ripple Glass Director of Sourcing Lydia Gibson says.