The factory was established in 1921 (under the name “Fabrica de Sticlărie S.A.”) through the contribution of several shareholders, the most important of which was “Banca Centrală pentru Industrie si Comerț” from Cluj, which owned 75% of the shares. The construction lasted a year and began with the clearing of the land provided by Simon Mendel, a large landowner and patron of the Turda Brewery. In the beginning, the factory had a glass melting furnace, but after 3 years, 2 more furnaces were built. In the concrete conditions of that time, in which skilled workers were lacking, they were brought from other countries: Germany, Poland, Italy, Czechoslovakia. Next, the qualification system was used directly at the workplace, with native labor forces. Each glass worker received a certain amount of money for the young man he managed to teach the trade. Later, a professional school was founded where young people from the Turzii area were trained for the Glass Factory. In 1929, between 500 and 600 employees worked at “Sticla” Turda. The director of the factory was Grigore Bozdog, originally from the Turzii area. He built the “colony” of the Glass Factory, on the banks of the Aries. This included workers’ housing, shop, club, sports field.
Sticla Turda SA was struck off the Trade Register on August 2, 2021, at the end of a turbulent history that it went through after the communist period. If before the Revolution the company had 3,000-5,000 employees, in 1999 it reached about 1,800 employees, so that later the number decreased gradually and precipitously to 73 employees in 2016. (source)