Glass Company Connected to Air Scare Sells to California Business

A North Portland glass company that was engulfed in the toxic air scare this past spring has sold itself to a California company. Production will shut down in Portland by February 1 and restart in Mexico the first week of May, according to a statement from the company.

Uroboros - along with Bullseye Glass in Southeast Portland - came under the microscope after air tests revealed elevated levels of heavy metals that were then traced back to the companies. The result was a rewriting of regulations.

"With 25 years of experience in decorative glass tile design and manufacturing," Uroboros owner and president Eric Lovell saidof their new owners, Oceanside Glasstile of Carlsbad, California. "The OGT owners and crew have a proven track record of developing and dependably supplying aesthetically superior, responsibly made colored glass products."

Lovell said thanks Portland for being supportive for the 44 years they have been in business.

"We, the craftspeople at Uroboros, have learned much from you about the often subtle visual properties that you and your customers sought in art glass," he said. "We consider ourselves lucky to have been intimately involved in so many superb art projects.

"It has been an educational, exciting, and rewarding experience in arts based manufacturing, combining old-world craftsmanship with modern technology."

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