in the early days

Starting life as “Irish Glass Bottle Company” in
1932, the business, now known as Ardagh Glass,
has grown to become one of Europe’s largest
glass packaging manufacturer's.


Ardagh Glass operates 22 manufacturing facilities with 47
furnaces across 7 countries (Germany, UK, Poland, Sweden, Denmark, Netherlands, Italy) with the non-manufacturing headquarters based in Dublin, Ireland. The business employees around 7000 people and produces 3.5m tonnes of glass containers each year.