[citation needed] The company's headquarters were previously located at One SeaGate, Toledo, Ohio.

[citation needed] In 1971 Owens-Illinois produced an early commercial plasma display, the digivue.

[8] In May 2015, O-I made an offer to purchase the food and beverage glass container business of Mexican company Vitro for $2.15 billion.

[10] In 2020, a subsidiary of O-I Glass, Paddock Enterprises, entered bankruptcy following numerous asbestos lawsuits filed against the company.

Although it has not made asbestos-containing materials since 1958, Owens-Illinois invented, tested, manufactured and distributed KAYLO asbestos containing thermal pipe insulation from 1948 through 1958.