Uroboros Glass was an

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manufacturer in

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History

The company was founded by Eric Lovell in 1973. In the late sixties, Lovell had rediscovered the glass-making technique of ring mottle glass, which was invented by

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and lost when it closed in 1928. In 2017, the company's assets were sold to Oceanside Glass & Tile, based out of

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, The Portland facility stopped making sheets of glass by February 2017. following discovery of

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pollution near its site. Oceanside moved production to

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, and ended the Uroboros name.

References

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