HAZEL-ATLAS GLASS COMPANY

The 'Hazel-Atlas Glass Company' was a large producer of machine-molded glass containers headquartered in Wheeling, West Virginia. It was founded in 1902 in Washington, Pennsylvania, as the merger of four companies:

★ Hazel Glass and Metals Company

★ Atlas Glass Company

★ Wheeling Metal Plant

★ Republic Glass Company
By the 1930’s, Hazel-Atlas had fifteen plants and was the largest glass manufacturer in the world. It continued to make containers and tableware until the 1950s. In 1956, Hazel-Atlas, at that time the third largest producer of glass containers in the U.S., was acquired by the Continental Can Company. The acquisition was challenged under the Clayton Antitrust Act in a case that was eventually decided by the U.S. Supreme Court in ''United States v. Continental Can Co.''.

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External links and references

★ Hazel-Atlas Depression glass a field unto itself, from a February 2005 article in ''The San Diego Union-Tribune''

★ History of the Hazel Atlas Glass Company, written by a collector