Stölzle Glass Group is an Austrian multinational manufacturer of
glassware
upTypical drinkware
The list of glassware includes drinking vessels (drinkware) and tableware used to set a table for eating a meal, general glass items such as vases, and glasses used in the catering industry. It does not include laboratory glas ...
.
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 coal ...
(
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 Scho ...
(Styria).
United Kingdom
Stölzle Flaconnage have a glassmaking site in the
City of Wakefield
The City of Wakefield is a local government district with the status of a city and metropolitan borough in West Yorkshire, England. Wakefield, the largest settlement, is the administrative centre of the district. The population of the City ...
district of
West Yorkshire
West Yorkshire is a metropolitan and ceremonial county in the Yorkshire and Humber Region of England. It is an inland and upland county having eastward-draining valleys while taking in the moors of the Pennines. West Yorkshire came into exis ...
, where it has been since 1994 on the
A645, and makes
glass container
Container glass is a type of glass for the production of glass containers, such as bottles, jars, drinkware, and bowls. Container glass stands in contrast to ''flat glass'' (used for windows, glass doors, transparent walls, windshields) and '' g ...
s (around 100 million a year) and
flint glass
Flint glass is optical glass that has relatively high refractive index and low Abbe number (high dispersion). Flint glasses are arbitrarily defined as having an Abbe number of 50 to 55 or less. The currently known flint glasses have refracti ...
. The site had been founded as J.W. Bagley and Co in 1871.
Bagley Glass
/ref> The site provides spirit
Spirit or spirits may refer to:
Liquor and other volatile liquids
* Spirits, a.k.a. liquor, distilled alcoholic drinks
* Spirit or tincture, an extract of plant or animal material dissolved in ethanol
* Volatile (especially flammable) liquids, ...
(Scottish
Scottish usually refers to something of, from, or related to Scotland, including:
*Scottish Gaelic, a Celtic Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family native to Scotland
*Scottish English
*Scottish national identity, the Scottish ide ...
whisky
Whisky or whiskey is a type of distilled alcoholic beverage made from fermented grain mash. Various grains (which may be malted) are used for different varieties, including barley, corn, rye, and wheat. Whisky is typically aged in wooden ca ...
) bottles for Diageo. 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
Ar ...
.
References
External links
Stölzle Flaconnage Ltd
{{Glass makers and brands
1805 establishments in the Austrian Empire
Economy of West Yorkshire
Glassmaking companies of Austria
Manufacturing companies established in 1805
Austrian brands
Economy of Styria
Voitsberg District