Ardagh Glass Finance plc - Irish Stock Exchange

Key competitors by material type:
Plastic Metal Aseptic Cartons Glass
Alpla Ball Corporation Tetra Pak O-I
Graham Packaging Crown Holdings SIG Saint-Gobain
La Seda Impress Vidrala
Rexam Rexam Vetropack
RPC Group
Quinn Glass
Warta Glass Group
Wiegand Glas
The degree of the glass container industry’s market share of the total packaging industry varies on
a country-by-country basis.
Germany
After the consolidation of recent years, the four main producers of glass containers in Germany
are Ardagh, Saint-Gobain, O-I and Wiegand Glas.
United Kingdom
The glass container industry in the United Kingdom is very competitive and relatively
concentrated, with three main producers: Ardagh, O-I and Quinn Glass. Other competitors in the U.K.
glass container market include Allied Glass and Beatson Clark.
The Nordic Region
Our main competitor in the Nordic region is O-I with operations in Finland and Estonia.
The Benelux Region
Our main competitors in the Benelux region are O-I and Saint-Gobain.
Poland
Our main competitors in the Polish market are O-I, Warta Glass Group and Can Pack.
Ardagh Glass Engineering
Heye International, Ardagh’s main engineering business, competes on a worldwide basis. Its main
competitor is O-I, which is the only other provider of turnkey glass container operations and technology
services to the global glass manufacturing industry. The other major competitors in the supply of
equipment are Emhart Glass, a Swiss registered company, and Bottero, an Italian glass machinery
supplier, who also supply equipment to the glass container industry on a worldwide basis. Typically, O-I
supplies and licenses its technology to only one glass container manufacturer in a particular country
under an exclusive territorial agreement. As a result, this creates opportunities for other suppliers of
machinery and technology, including Heye International, since other glass container manufacturers are
required to source machinery and technical assistance from other suppliers.
Manufacturing and Production
Ardagh operates 20 manufacturing facilities with 40 glass furnaces and 101 production lines in
seven countries. In 2009, the aggregate production of Ardagh’s glass container businesses was
approximately 11.4 billion containers and 2.9 million tonnes.
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