Anchor Glass closing century-old bottle making plant

Anchor Glass Container Corp. announced it will close Florida’s only glass bottle manufacturing plant after operating for almost a century in Jacksonville.

The move will put 144 people out of work. The facility, at 2121 Huron St. on the Northwest side, is one of six bottle-making plants in the nation. It was established in 1926.

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Its customers include the Anheuser-Busch plant on the Northside.

Anchor Glass wrote a letter to Mayor Donna Deegan and City Council President Randy White to announce the closure per the Federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act.

“Changing business needs require us to close this facility permanently. … The Company officially will close the facility during the 14-day period from February 16, 2025,” Anchor Glass said in the letter.

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