Nippon Electric Glass Co., Ltd.

Company type	Public KK
Traded as	TYO: 5214 Nikkei 225 Component
Industry	Glass
Founded	(December 1, 1949; 74 years ago (1949-12-01))
Headquarters	7-1, Seiran 2-chome, Ōtsu, Shiga 520-8639, Japan
Key people	Yuzo Izutsu (Chairman of the Board) Masayuki Arioka [jp][1] (President)
Products	Glass products Glassmaking machinery
Revenue	US$ 2.4 billion (FY 2013) (¥ 252.54 billion) (FY 2013)
Net income	US$ 118.2 million (FY 2013) (¥ 12.43 billion) (FY 2013)
Number of employees	5,275 (consolidated as of June 2014)
Website	Official website
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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).^[5]

The company is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the Nikkei 225 stock index.^[6]

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)^{[7][8][9][10]}
• 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.^[11]
• 2017: Acquired three of the largest fiberglass factories in the world from PPG, the largest of which being in Shelby, North Carolina, US.^[12]

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