Lancaster Glass Corporation
1910 --- 2007

June 1910	Incorporated as Lancaster Lens Company by Edmund Dickey; specializing in automotive parts - high grade mirror lenses for auto lamps.*
1915	Main Street buildings rebuilt and third story added to the Ohio Shoe Company building.*
August 1916	Completed first glass furnaces for $35,000; expansion enabled Lancaster Lens to manufacture its own glass.*
1919	Received a govenment contract to construct 30 - 60 inch diameter reflectors to be used in battleships and anti-aircraft search lights in WWI.*
1919-1920	Expanded plant to Chestnut St., Lancaster.*
1934	Produced 25" hand-blown glass reflector to be placed in the torch of the Statue of Liberty for its 50th anniversary.
July 12, 1948	Edmund Dickey dies.*
1948	Automatic machine production of glass to produce cathode ray tubes (CRT) for Zenith, RCA and Admiral & military applications.
1951	Became an active supplier to the electronics industry and continues as an important producer of specialized CRT envelopes.
1954	Added a plastics division, formally known as Bluebird Plastics, now the Jackson Plastics Operation division of Lancaster Colony.
1957	Added another glass division, Indiana Glass which has two plants, one in Dunkirk, Indiana and the other in Sapulpa, Oklahoma. Changed name to Lancaster Glass Corporation to better reflect the diverse business.
1957-1960	Became the “face of TVs” by supplying glass screens to GE for their black and white TV's.
1962	Lancaster Glass was one of five companies merged to form Lancaster Colony Corporation. The reference of "Lancaster" was taken from Lancaster Glass and the "Colony" was taken from the well recognized trade name of Colony Glass.
1965-1977	Produced 2,250,000 portacolor GE TV bulbs.
1972	Produced a 70° deflection 15" display tube for IBM and became the sole world-wide supplier.
1974-1989	Supplier of avionic display components for the NASA space shuttle program.
1983	Acquired the historic Fostoria Glass company and began production of Fostoria glassware at Lancaster Glass.
1985	Developed and introduced a large variety of decorative glass lamp shades used in motels, hotels, bathrooms, restaurants.
1990	Producer of high volume glass consumer components such as mixing bowls, serveware, and ovenware products.
1996	Borosilicate glass producer and supplier for specialty products such as Hi-bay refractors, explosion proof globes and wall pack units.
2000	Producer and supplier of specialty glass lighting products used for street lighting, fuel service station applications and security needs.