Futajima Plant was scheduled for completion in December 1919 but due to delays in construction and changes in design, it was not finished until September 1920. Although most factories at the time were one-story steel shell buildings, this brick, two-storied factory was considered advanced. In August 1920, actual firings took place. At midnight on October 1, much-awaited glass draw process began. Miller and other Libbey Owens engineers were on hand when the Colburn process machines started operating, and by 1 am, Japan’s first flat glass using the horizontal sheet process emerged onto the flattening table.