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February 10, 2012

Workers prep bottle plant for new furnace

  • The $109 million Kalama wine bottle plant was shut down in 2009 shortly after it opened. The plant's furnace failed, causing a massive molten glass leak.

    • KALAMA, Cowlitz County (AP) — Workers at the Bennu Glass plant have chiseled away tons hardened glass from the crippled melter of the wine bottle plant here, and a new furnace and 100 employees should be ready to restart the shuttered plant in July, company officials say.

    “After being in a holding pattern for two years, we now are working feverishly on a number of things,” said Bennu CEO Jerry Lemieux.


     
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