After the Second World war the glass production enterprises the glass factory of Iļģuciems, complex enterprise Līvānu stikls, Riga glass and mirror factory and the glass factory in Sarkandaugava were renewed and modernized. Already during the first two decades from 1945 to 1965 the number of the produced glass bottles increased from 0.5 to 20.4 million per year, the number of produced electric bulbs from 0.3 to 1.3 million per year, but sheet glass from 0.7 to 2.3 million square meters per year. In 1966 there were employed about 4.2 thousand workers. For the production of high quality glass for dishes and lampshades there were employed pot furnaces of periodical activity and the work of glass blowers, but for the production of tare glass – automatic pressing and blowing devices, sometimes also manual work of glass blowers and pig-iron molds. Sheet glass or the glass for windowpanes was produced by the machines of vertical extraction of so called Furko machines. The farmer factory „Emolip” produced in small quantities the so called „ice glass” and the sheets of glass mosaic. In 1963 the glass fibre factory in Valmiera took up quite from the very start the continuous process of production of glass fibre, but since 1964 also the production of glass fabric.