Amcor's Glass Tubing business, a leading producer of pharmaceutical glass packaging and glass products for high performance industrial applications, has entered into a long term agreement with Fremont, California-based solar energy company Solyndra to supply tubular glass for its proprietary solar energy panels. The companies will transact over $200M of business for the duration of the contract. Amcor will, as part of the agreement, invest $4M to expand its glass tubing facility in Millville, New Jersey, which is scheduled to be ready for added production by autumn 2011 and full production is to start up in 2012. The expansion will add an additional three lines to the two full production lines Amcor presently has in operation in New Jersey for Solyndra, along with a dedicated team to support Solyndra, including operations, quality control and future technical development, and 40 new employees.
