Glass Packaging Institute
From OnTrackNorthAmerica
Context
- On May 2, 2024, Scott DeFife, President of the Glass Packaging Institute (GPI) contacted OnTrackNorthAmerica for help establishing strategically placed clean glass aggregation hubs around the country, in certain places where there is a lot of glass, but not a lot of end-market.
- These facilities would be better off if they were near rail transload
- The assumptions is that the freight system is underutilized.
- Scott DeFife, President, Glass Packaging Institute, [email protected], 703-684-6359
Opportunity
- GPI can work with OTNA via North American Freight Forums to help GPI identify under-utilized rail infrastructure or property for lease that has access to rail?
- MS invited Scott DeFife to do the following:
- Review the OnTrackNorthAmerica page on Collaborative Industrial Optimization on the OTNA website.
- OTNA will GPI's fundamental project and organizational material
- OTNA will prepare a specific dialogue agenda that enables OTNA to begin laying out a game plan
- A written record of the entire conversation as the beginning of our collaborative thinking
- We will have a second conversation to revisit our initial thinking and plan the next steps.
- Brownfields or otherwise underused infrastructure that we could make productive again.
Problems
- It is difficult getting the attention of the Class One railroads
