Group Company History
Libbey-Owens-Ford Company
Plant in Shelbyville
Libbey-Owens-Ford Company
Intertwining with Pilkington plc1986 - 2006
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1986
Pilkington acquires 100 percent of the glass division of Libbey-Owens-Ford Company and the LOF name.
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1987
Joint venture with NSG
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1988
Automotive Glass Replacement wholesale network
Automotive glass replacement windshields. -
1989
LOF introduces online pyrolytically
coated glass
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1989
LOF develops automotive solar control glass
Same year LOF supplies Heads-Up Display (HUD) windshields to General Motors. -
1990
New plant in Shelbyville
Plant in Shelbyville -
1991
New tempering line
LOF built a tempering line at Ottawa, Illinois, plant for tempered low-E glass.
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1992
Trans Canada Glass
LOF swapped the assets of the U.S. AGR retail operations for the U.S. wholesale assets of Trans Canada Glass.
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1995
LOF sells Modern Tools/Toledo.
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1999
Windshield bending furnace
Inside the Collingwood plant. -
2000
NSG swaps stake in LOF for holding in Pilkington plc. LOF changes its name to Pilkington North America, Inc.
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2006
NSG acquired Pilkington plc.
