Nippon Electric Glass – Wikipedia
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Japanese glass manufacturer
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[edit]
- 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)[6][7][8][9]
- 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.[10]
- 2017: Acquired three of the largest fiberglass factories in the world from PPG, the largest of which being in Shelby, North Carolina.[11]
Products[edit]
Glass for display devices[edit]
Glass for electronic devices[edit]
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Glass fiber[edit]
Building materials, heat-resistant glass[edit]
Glassmaking and processing machinery[edit] |
References[edit]
- ^ “Corporate Information”. Nippon Electric Glass. Retrieved September 5, 2014.
- ^ “Company Summary”. Google Finance. Retrieved September 5, 2014.
- ^ “Corporate Financials”. Bloomberg Businessweek. Archived from the original on September 5, 2014. 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. Archived from the original on November 14, 2016. Retrieved September 5, 2014.
- ^ “Television glass-maker Techneglas owes creditors $50 million”.
- ^ “Techneglas plant shutting down; 382 jobs lost – 2004-08-03 – Business First of Columbus”. Archived from the original on 2005-03-02.
- ^ “Construction of Distribution Building Begins on the Former Techneglas Site”. Associated Press. 14 November 2018.
- ^ “Former O-I TV tube venture to halt output”.
- ^ “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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