Float-glass manufacturer Stewart Engineers is opening a solar glass manufacturing facility in Ohio and expects production to begin in March 2026. The new company division Stewart Glass is working out of a 267,000-ft 2 facility in Logan, Ohio, about an hour southeast of Columbus. . USDA officials say with Stewart Glass' new facility, solar manufacturers will “gain access to an American-made source of critical solar components, boosting the resilience of the U. energy sector and reducing reliance on imports. ” Photo: Prometheus / Unsplash. The United States Department of. . Located in Logan, Ohio, our facility will begin producing high-performance solar glass in March 2026, making us the first fully operational solar glass plant in the United States. Stewart Glass will. . COCHRANTON — A 1970 New York Times article described the new PPG glass plant in Crawford County as the largest of its type in the world, producing up to 100 million square feet of glass a year. Ownership of the company changed hands in 2016, when PPG sold the company to Vitro Architectural Glass. . Glass supplier company NSG Group has opened a solar glass production line to support cadmium telluride (CdTe) thin-film PV manufacturer First Solar. The company has converted a transparent conductive oxide (TCO) facility, in the US state of Ohio from a facility of Pilkington North America, a member. . An existing float line at the Rossford, Ohio factory of Pilkington North America, Inc., a member of NSG Group, has been converted to begin producing TCO glass from March 2025. The conversion represents a significant investment by the Group, resulting in the retention and creation of jobs at the. .