Nippon Electric Glass
Japanese glass manufacturer
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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).[6]
Native name
日本電気硝子株式会社Romanized name
Nippon Denki Garasu Kabushiki-gaishaLogo used since 2022 | |
 Headquarters in Seiran, Otsu | |
Native name | 日本電気硝子株式会社 |
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Romanized name | Nippon Denki Garasu Kabushiki-gaisha |
Company type | Public KK |
| TYO: 5214 Nikkei 225 Component | |
| Industry | Glass |
| Founded | December 1, 1949 |
| Headquarters | 7-1, Seiran 2-chome, , Japan |
Key people | Motoharu Matsumoto[1] (Chairman of the Board) Akira Kishimoto[1] (President) |
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| Revenue |  ¥279.974 billion (2023) [2] |
| ¥26.285 billion (2023) [2] | |
Number of employees | 5,578 [1] |
| Website | www |
| Footnotes / references [3][4][5] | |
The company is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the Nikkei 225 stock index.[7]
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 with O-I Glass. (Techneglas)[8][9][10][11]
- 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.[12]
- 2017: Acquired three of the largest fiberglass factories in the world from PPG, the largest of which being in Shelby, North Carolina, US.[13]
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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