Food and beverage container manufacturer Anchor Glass plans to permanently close a manufacturing facility in Warner Robins, Georgia, according to a WARN notice posted Tuesday.
All 168 employees will be affected. Oct. 17 is listed as the first date of separation. Anchor Glass declined to comment on the planned closure.
The announcement comes in a year of change at Anchor. The Tampa, Florida-headquartered company brought in Eric Showalter as president and CEO in February. Prior to that, Anchor announced in October 2025 it had completed a recapitalization, emerging with Canyon Capital Advisors, Millstreet Capital and UBS as majority owners. Former Berry Global CEO Kevin Kwilinski became chairman of the board.
The company said the process reduced its debt by more than 60%. Some $100 million in new capital would support furnace rebuilds and capacity expansions across the U.S., with Anchor planning to have invested more than $1 billion in capital improvements by 2030.
The Georgia closure isn’t Anchor’s first hit to the Southeast. Anchor planned the shutdown of a Jacksonville, Florida, site in early 2025. The company’s remaining U.S. manufacturing sites are in Indiana, Minnesota, New York and Oklahoma.
Anchor’s customers span food, beer, liquor and other beverage categories. Anchor reported more than $585 million in global sales, more than 1,400 U.S. employees and some 2.8 billion bottles shipped in the U.S., in its 2025 corporate sustainability report.
Other glass packaging companies have also shuttered U.S. sites this year. Ardagh laid off workers at a facility in Madera, California, and Gerresheimer planned to close a plant in Chicago Heights, Illinois.
Publicly traded glass makers such as O-I and Ardagh have reported declining volumes and sales this year.
