b'Did You Know?Two historic Pittsburgh-based companies that have impacted the direction of the manufacturing and metal packaging industries now operate under the same private ownership. Pittsburgh Brewing Company introduced the first pull-top beer can and Oberg Industries originated tungsten carbide components in the manufacture of high-speed stamping dies. Oberg was one of the first to recognize the potential that carbide, a material nearly twice as hard as steel, could bring to industrial Cliff Forrest (left) and Eric Oberg of Oberg Industries shownapplications. Since then, its tungsten-carbide tooling during a company announcement at Obergs Freeport campus onexpertise, specifically shell, cupper and end tooling, has December 4, 2018. helped food and beverage manufacturers worldwide significantly improve production efficiencies and reduce failure rates for their metal packaging challenges.Oberg Announces New Owner As ItPittsburgh Brewing, founded in 1861, has its own Positions For Continued Growth unique history in the region by being the first brewery to recognize the potential that a new idea would have on In December of 2018, Oberg Industries announced that it hadthe beverage industry. While its hard to imagine that completed a transaction in which Armstrong County business owner,the ubiquitous pull-top can didnt exist until 1962, PBC, Cliff Forrest, has become the majority owner of Oberg.Under thatin conjunction with Alcoa, was first to introduce the self-initial agreement, Eric Oberg, son of company founder Don Obergopening feature on its Iron City brand of beer cans. Before and previous majority owner, would remain involved in the businessthat, popular flat-top steel beverage cans could only be as a minority shareholder.Eric Oberg commented, Today marks aopened with a separate church key opener to pierce the significant and positive step forward for the employees and customertop in two spots, creating one hole for airflow and another partners of Oberg. Cliffs passion for his businesses and employeesfor drinking. By 1963, forty breweries had also adopted aligns perfectly to the culture we have built at Oberg over the past 70the pull-top tab. First-generation pull-top cans werent years. His successful business experience and availability of capital willperfect however. The tabs werent rolled and they didnt position Oberg for its next phase of growth. Terms and details of thealways peel away cleanly, occasionally resulting in cut transaction were not publicly disclosed. The announcement of the newfingers and tongues from sharp edges. Later versions partnership was made by Mr. Oberg and Mr. Forrest to an audiencequickly added rolled edges on the tab, raised ridges (smile of Obergs employees at each of its Freeport and Sarver locations onbeads) near the opening and engraved instructions on Tuesday, December 4, 2018.the lid to which helped consumers embrace the new cans In a speech given at Obergs 2019 Employee Awards held at theuntil todays Stay-Tab can launched in 1975. PBC went on Freeport campus on May 16, Cliff Forrest made a statement to theto be an early adopter of other packaging innovations that attendees about how impressed he was with the potential of theincluded the twist-off resealable cap, canned draft beer, company and its workers since he became involved in December. printed sports themed cans and large-scale aluminum Following that, he announced to thebottle packaging. Oberg Industries makes the tooling crowd that he made a subsequentused by PBC in the manufacture of their cans.arrangement in May to purchase the remaining equity from Eric Oberg to become the sole private owner of Oberg Industries.The Value Awards event included a catered buffet lunch, recognition of employees who symbolized Obergs core values and ended with Oberg Proud t-shirts for all employees from Mr. Forrest.OBERG.COM 3'