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Rockware Glass

Rockware Glass

UK company manufacturing glass containers

Rockware Glass is a UK company manufacturing glass containers.

The company has a works at Doncaster, South Yorkshire, Worksop, Nottinghamshire, Knottingley West Yorkshire and Irvine, Scotland. Rockware became part of Ardagh Glass Group in 2006.

Rockware's former works by the Grand Union Canal in Greenford, London, were developed from W.A.Bailey's glassworks, founded in 1900, and Purex lead works. By 1959 Rockware employed 1,220 people on a 14 hectare (35 acre) site.[1]

In 1968, Rockware acquired the former Forster's Glass Company of St Helens, Lancashire.[2]

The Greenford works closed in 1973[3] and is commemorated by Rockware Avenue.

References

  1. [1]
    "'Greenford: Economic and social history'". A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 3: Shepperton, Staines, Stanwell, Sunbury, Teddington, Heston and Isleworth, Twickenham, Cowley, Cranford, West Drayton, Greenford, Hanwell, Harefield and Harlington (1962), pp. 212-215. Victoria County History. Retrieved 11 October 2007.
  2. [2]
    "Forster's Glass Co. Ltd; St. Helens, Lancashire". National Archives. Retrieved 8 March 2016.
  3. [3]
    Competition Commission Rockware Group Limited, United Glass Limited, Redfearn National Glass Limited: A Report on the Proposed Mergers at the Wayback Machine (archived 8 February 2012)


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