Nippon Electric Glass Co., Ltd.

Logo used since 2022
Headquarters in Seiran, Otsu
Native name	日本電気硝子株式会社
Romanized name	Nippon Denki Garasu Kabushiki-gaisha
Company type	PublicKK
Traded as	TYO:5214 Nikkei 225 Component
Industry	Glass
Founded	December 1, 1949; 75 years ago (1949-12-01)
Headquarters	7-1, Seiran 2-chome, Ōtsu,Shiga , Japan
Key people	Motoharu Matsumoto[1] (Chairman of the Board) Akira Kishimoto[1] (President)
Products	Glass products Glassmaking machinery
Revenue	¥279.974 billion (2023)[2]
Net income	¥26.285 billion (2023)[2]
Number of employees	5,578[1]
Website	www.neg.co.jp/en/
Footnotes / references [3][4][5]

Nippon Electric Glass Co., Ltd. (日本電気硝子株式会社,Nippon Denki Garasu Kabushiki-gaisha), also known asNEG, is a Japaneseglass manufacturer. The company is a manufacturer of glass forflat panel displays (FPD). It has about 20% share in the world's production of glass forliquid crystal displays (LCD).^[6]

The company is listed on theTokyo Stock Exchange and is a constituent of theNikkei 225stock index.^[7]

• 1944: Established with investment fromNEC Corporation and other companies.
• 1949: Separated from NEC, andNippon 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-whiteCRT glass.
• 1968: Started production of color CRT glass.
• 1973: Company stock listed on theTokyo Stock Exchange (TSE) andOsaka 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 theUS viajoint venture withO-I Glass. (Techneglas)^{[8][9][10][11]}
• 1998: Started production ofPDP substrate glass using the float process.
• 1999: AcquiredISO 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 andMexico.
• 2010: Started production of substrate glass forsolar 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]

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