Bronco Wine Co. Ceres, California, plans to make its own glass near its bottling plant in Napa. Company president Fred Franzia said the plant would eliminate the need to buy bottles, many of them imported from Mexico and China, and would reduce pollution from trucks. "We believe this will be the first new glass production facility built in California since the 1960s, over 40 years ago", Franzia said on 17th April. Bronco makes most of its wine at a site just south of Ceres, but most of the bottling takes place at the plant next to Napa Valley Airport, near the south end of the famed wine region. The Ceres plant does bottle some products, such as sparkling wine, carafes and 4-liter jugs, said Bob Stashak, a winemaker for Bronco. The Napa plant can bottle up to 55,000 cases a day, he said. This includes Bronco's many brands and contract bottling for other winemakers.
