Brockway Glass Company Inc. was founded in 1907 in Brockway

Brockway, Pennsylvania

Brockway is a borough in Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 2,182 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Brockway is located at ....

, Pennsylvania by the Brockway Machine Bottle Company (which later became Brockway Glass). Brockway manufactured and sold glass containers and tubing, along with plastic products manufactured through wholly owned subsidiaries. In 1964 Brockway bought several Hazel-Atlas Glass Company

Hazel-Atlas Glass Company

The Hazel-Atlas Glass Company was a large producer of machine-molded glass containers headquartered in Wheeling, West Virginia. It was founded in 1902 in Washington, Pennsylvania, as the merger of four companies:...

 factories from the Continental Can Company

Continental Can Company

Continental Can Company was an American producer of metal containers and packaging company.The Continental Can Company was founded by Edwin Norton T.G. Cranwell in 1904, three years after the formation of its greatest rival, American Can Company...

 as part of a lawsuit settlement. In 1987 Owens-Illinois

Owens-Illinois

Owens-Illinois Inc. is a Fortune 500 company that specializes in container glass products. It is one of the world's leading manufacturers of packaging products, holding the position of largest manufacturer of glass containers in North America, South America, Asia-Pacific and Europe...

made a bid of $60 per share (worth $750million) to acquire Brockway, which was met with resistance by the FTC . After a Federal District Judge denied the FTC's request for an injunction, Owens-Illinois acquired Brockway's shares.

Owens-Brockway Glass Container Inc.

The wholly owned subsidiary Owens-Brockway Glass Containers Inc., was the result of the 1988 merger between Brockway and Owens-Illinois. Owens-Brockway Glass Containers owns all of Owens-Illinois worldwide glass operations.