Pittsburgh Glass Works (PGW) LLC, world leading supplier of automotive glass, and joint venture partner Jinjing, China, will build a new, state-of-the-art automotive glass manufacturing facility utilizing existing float glass capacity in Zibo, China to serve automotive OEM customers in China. The facility will be based in Shandong Province near Jinan, which is a high technology manufacturing centre offering an educated workforce, easy transportation access, and closeness to customers. The new facility, along with embedded product development and customer support centre, will extend PGWs global reach for its innovative product and process technologies in order to serve the needs of global car producers in the important Chinese market. Groundbreaking is planned for end-February 2014, and production is expected to begin mid-2015.
