Stölzle Glass Group is an Austrian multinational manufacturer of

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History

Karl Smola founded the Oberdorf glassworks in

Bärnbach Bärnbach is the smallest city of the district of Voitsberg in the Austrian state of Styria . The city is popular for its church (designed by Friedensreich Hundertwasser), manual glass manufacturing and coal mining (surface mining). Today the co ...

(

Styria Styria (german: Steiermark ; Serbo-Croatian and sl, ; hu, Stájerország) is a state (''Bundesland'') in the southeast of Austria. With an area of , Styria is the second largest state of Austria, after Lower Austria. Styria is bordered to ...

) on 15 June 1805. In 1978, Stölzle Glasindustrie AG became Stölzle-Oberglas AC.

Structure

The company is headquartered in

Köflach Köflach is a small city in the district of Voitsberg in the Austrian state of Styria, at the foot of the Stubalpe mountain. The town has a federal stud in the village of Piber that supplies the Lipizzaner horses to the famous Spanish Riding Schoo ...

(Styria).

United Kingdom

Stölzle Flaconnage have a glassmaking site in the

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district of

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, where it has been since 1994 on the A645, and makes

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s (around 100 million a year) and

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. The site had been founded as J.W. Bagley and Co in 1871.Bagley Glass
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( Scottish

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) bottles for

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. Another site of Bagley became

Rockware Glass Rockware Glass is a UK company manufacturing glass containers. The company has a works at Doncaster, South Yorkshire, Worksop, Nottinghamshire, Knottingley West Yorkshire and Irvine, Scotland. Rockware became part of Ardagh Glass Group in 2006. ...

References

External links

Stölzle Flaconnage Ltd
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