(Matt Drzik/Beaver County Radio)

Whether it’s in a bottle or in a glass, your next drink may have its ties to Beaver County.

The Stoelzle Glass Plant, located in Monaca at the former Anchor Hocking site, celebrated one year of operations in Beaver County on Tuesday with a ribbon-cutting ceremony. The European glass manufacturer specializes in creating glass bottles for major liquor and spirit manufacturers (Crown Royal and Jack Daniels among them) along with common glassware like wine glasses.

The event was hosted by Georg Feith, the CEO of Stoelzle, along with Nathan Smith–who was announced by Feith to be the next President of Stoelzle’s USA operations, taking the position over from August Grupp in 2023. Also in attendance were outgoing Beaver County Chamber of Commerce president Helen Kissick, Beaver County Commissioner Jack Manning, Pennsylvania FDI Director David Briel, and members of the Pittsburgh Regional Alliance. Kissick and Feith were the honorees to cut the ribbon to officially “open” the Monaca plant.

“We came here to service and we came here to stay,” said CEO Feith at the ceremony.  The Stoelzle plant in Monaca is the first production plant in the United States and seventh in the world, following plants in Poland (2), England, Austria, France, and the Czech Republic. But Feith sees this as only the beginning: “We are trying to build an empire for the next generations to come.”

The photo gallery below includes pictures from the ceremony, as well as a look inside the Stoelzle plant through photos taken by Beaver County Radio’s Matt Drzik: