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plants are located at Mexico tered in Mexicali B.C., and has of Empaque, was acquired by
City, San Luis Potosi and Tierra been producing glass beverage Dutch brewer, Heineken, in 2010.
Blanca, which are strategically containers for over 20 years. The In 2014, Heineken sold the
placed near the breweries oper- company is a major glass manu- Empaque business to American
ated by the company. These three facturer of beverage containers packaging company, Crown
glass plants are capable of pro- and is a certified and select sup- Holdings for a consideration of
ducing nearly 15 million glass plier to prestigious companies USD 1.225 billion.
containers per day. such as Anheuser Busch, Coca- The company’s contain-
Grupo Modelo is one of the Cola and Modelo Brewing. er glass plants are located at
two major brewers in Mexico. Fevisa Industrial currently has Tultilan, San Luis Potosi and
The company operates seven two plants located in Mexicali, Tierra Blanca in the country.
brewing plants in Mexico with Baja California Norte, and San
a total installed capacity of 60 Luis Potosí, SLP, in which it Saverglass
million hectoliters. The company produces glass containers for French container glass manu-
exports beer to most countries beverages such as wine, beer facturer, Saverglass started up a
of the world. Its export brands and soft drinks, and which are new container glass and finishing
include Corona, Modelo, and exported to several countries in plant in Mexico in June 2018,
Pacífico. Grupo Modelo also the world. The latter serves the its sixth location, to meet the
brews brands intended solely for domestic market, while the for- increased demand for high-end
the domestic Mexican market: mer focuses more on exports bottles throughout the Americas,
Estrella; and León and Montejo. markets. Total capacity of these where customers request a high
plants is 1,500 tons per day. The degree of differentiation.
FEVISA Industrial company currently has approxi- Saverglass specializes in man-
Fevisa Industrial is headquar- mately 1,700 employees. ufacturing luxury glassware used
for wine, spirits, perfume and
Sivesa cosmetics. Saverglass’ manu-
Container glass manu- facturing facility is located at
facturer Sivesa, which now Jalisco. With an installed capac-
operates as a part of US ity of 120 million glass contain-
based Crown Holdings, ers per annum, the site was
Inc., is among the promi- selected based on its conveni-
nent container glass man- ent location for shipping to US,
ufacturers in Mexico. Central America, Canada and
Sivesa, which was a part the Caribbean. O

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