Nippon Electric Glass
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| Company type | Public KK |
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| TYO: 5214 Nikkei 225 Component | |
| Industry | Glass |
| Founded | (December 1, 1949) |
| Headquarters | 7-1, Seiran 2-chome, Ōtsu, Shiga 520-8639, Japan |
Key people | Yuzo Izutsu (Chairman of the Board) Masayuki Arioka (President) |
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| Revenue |  US$ 2.4 billion (FY 2013)
(¥ 252.54 billion) (FY 2013) |
 US$ 118.2 million (FY 2013)
(¥ 12.43 billion) (FY 2013) | |
Number of employees | 5,275 (consolidated as of June 2014) |
| Website | Official website |
| Footnotes / references [1][2][3] | |
Nippon Electric Glass Co., Ltd. (日本電気硝子株式会社, Nippon Denki Garasu Kabushiki-gaisha), also known as NEG, is a Japanese glass manufacturer. The company is a manufacturer of glass for flat panel displays (FPD). It has about 20% share in the world's production of glass for liquid crystal displays (LCD).[4]
The company is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the Nikkei 225 stock index.[5]
History
- 1944: Established with investment from NEC Corporation and other companies.
- 1949: Separated from NEC, and Nippon Electric Glass was founded as an independent company.
- 1951: Successfully began use of the Danner process to form glass tubing automatically; initiated mass production.
- 1956: Started continuous production of glass tubing using a tank furnace.
- 1965: Started production of black-and-white CRT glass.
- 1968: Started production of color CRT glass.
- 1973: Company stock listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE) and Osaka Securities Exchange (OSE) (Second Section).
- 1974: Started production of thin sheet glass for LCDs.
- 1983: Company stock transferred to the First Section of the TSE and OSE.
- 1988: Started CRT glass operations in the US via joint venture.
- 1998: Started production of PDP substrate glass using the float process.
- 1999: Acquired ISO 14001 certification for all plants in Japan.
- 1999: Started production of LCD substrate glass by the overflow process.
- 2004: Ended CRT glass production in the US and Mexico.
- 2010: Started production of substrate glass for solar cells.[6]
- 2017: Acquired three of the largest fiberglass factories in the world from PPG, the largest of which being in Shelby, North Carolina.[7]
Products
Glass for display devices
Glass for electronic devices
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Glass fiber
Building materials, heat-resistant glass
Glassmaking and processing machinery
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References
- ^ "Corporate Information". Nippon Electric Glass. Retrieved September 5, 2014.
- ^ "Company Summary". Google Finance. Retrieved September 5, 2014.
- ^ "Corporate Financials". Bloomberg Businessweek. Retrieved September 5, 2014.
- ^ "Display Glass: Bigger, Thinner, and Stronger". Society for Information Display. January 2012. Retrieved September 7, 2014.
- ^ "Components:Nikkei Stock Average". Nikkei Inc. Retrieved September 5, 2014.
- ^ "Company History". Nippon Electric Glass. Retrieved September 5, 2014.
- ^ "PPG Reaches Agreement with Nippon Electric Glass for Sale of Remaining Fiberglass Operations". Pittsburgh Plate Glass Industries. Retrieved August 22, 2017.
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