The casualties of America’s loss of glassware manufacturing to China

Last September the company, now known as the Corelle Brands , announced they would close the plant that had been one of the great innovators at its inception.

Three hundred men and women are now without jobs in a town of 4,200 .

By 1936 , Macbeth-Evans was bought out by Corning Glass Works , the largest maker of technical glassware.

The U.S. glass industry lost almost 40,000 manufacturing jobs between 2000 to 2008 .

China now leads glass production globally, exporting 28.7% of the world’s glass and glassware compared to the United States ’ 6.6% .

Charleroi , once known as the “Glass City” where PPG once had one of its major glass factories, is a casualty.