# Arglass Yamamura breaks ground on glass plant in Georgia

Arglass Yamamura officially broke ground on a new container glassmaking plant in Valdosta-Lowndes County, Georgia, USA. The facility will create 150 jobs, have a production capacity of 100,000 metric tons per year, and is expected to start furnace operations in Q4 2020 and be fully operational in Q1 2021.

- Type: New facility
- Announced: 2019-10-03
- Where: Valdosta-Lowndes County, Georgia, United States
- Value: $123.0M
- Jobs: 150
- Starts operating: Q4 2020
- Status: under construction
- Capacity: 100,000 metric tons per year / 265,000,000 units per year
- Products: glass bottles, container glass
- Sectors: [Packaging](https://endata.com/sectors/packaging.md)

## Companies

- [Arglass Yamamura](https://endata.com/companies/5393.md)
- [Nihon Yamamura Glass Company](https://endata.com/companies/5544.md) (partner)
- [Cambium Arglass](https://endata.com/companies/41253.md) (partner)

## Sources

- [glassglobal.com](https://www.glassglobal.com/news/ground_officially_broken_on_arglass_plant-30365.html), 2019-10-18: "Georgia, specifically the Valdosta region, will allow us to run a very flexible, efficient, and cost-effective manufacturing operation"
- [valdostatoday.com](https://valdostatoday.com/business-2/2019/12/arglass-building-and-building/), 2019-12-23: "Arglass, the first of its kind in the U.S. started with land, and a concrete slab."

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