Cameron Family Glass Packaging has completed a $109 million financing deal that will allow the company to build a new glass plant built in the United States. When complete, the company says it will be the first glass plant built in the United States in 30 years that will manufacture glass exclusively for the wine industry. The facility is expected to be complete by the second half of next year.
The 175,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art facility will be built by contractor J.H. Kelly LLC, and will be located at the Port of Kalama, Wash.
The company will also make recycling a top priority for the facility. The wine bottles will be made at least in part from recycled glass from Washington and Oregon. They will launch recycling programs in surrounding communities where glass is currently being dumped into landfills, and the company will even recycle all water used during the glass making process.
According to Robin Pollard, Executive Director of the Washington Wine Commission, the state is home to more than 500 wineries, which comprise a $3 billion industry that is second only to California in the United States.
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