(Credit for Photo: Courtesy of Keith Walsh, Caption for Photo: Stoelzle Glass Fire)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Monaca, PA) The largest glass plant in Beaver County has temporarily laid off about half of its employees while it completes a massive renovation. 

According to a recent notice from the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry, 200 Stoelzle Glass USA workers will be laid off, but the company has promised to bring them back by February when it completes $100 million in upgrades to the plant located at 400 Ninth Street.

This plant has been in Monaca Borough for over 100 years and was formerly known as Phoenix Glass.

Stoelzle Glass Group has been one of the top manufacturers of glass bottles in Europe since 1805.