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| Company type | PublicKK |
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| TYO:5202 | |
| Industry | Glass |
| Founded | Osaka,Japan (November 22, 1918; 107 years ago (1918-11-22)) |
| Headquarters | Sumitomo Fudosan Tokyo Mita South Tower, 5-27,Mita 3-Chome,Minato-ku,Tokyo 108-6321, Japan |
Key people | Munehiro Hosonuma(Representative Executive Officer,President andCEO) |
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| Revenue | ¥ 832.537 billion (FY 2024 March) |
| ¥ 10.633 billion (FY 2024 March) | |
Number of employees | 25,356 (as of March 31, 2024) |
| Website | Official website |
| Footnotes / references [1][2] | |
Nippon Sheet Glass Co., Ltd. (日本板硝子株式会社,Nihon Ita-Garasu Kabushiki-gaisha) is a Japaneseglass manufacturing company. In 2006, it acquiredPilkington of theUnited Kingdom. This makes NSG/Pilkington one of the four largest glass companies in the world alongside another Japanese companyAsahi Glass,Saint-Gobain, andGuardian Industries.
The company is listed on theTokyo Stock Exchange.
The company was established in November 1918 as America Japan Sheet Glass Co., Ltd. with its head office inOsaka, after it obtained technology fromLibbey Owens Ford Glass Co. of theUnited States to produceflat glass using theColburn process. The company changed its name to the Nippon Sheet Glass Co., Ltd. in January 1931. It expanded operations across Japan postWorld War II, and in October 1970, acquired Nippon Safety Glass Co., Ltd. In April 1999, the company merged with Nippon Glass Fiber Co., Ltd. and Micro Optics Co., Ltd. In April 2001, the company acquired Nippon Muki Co., Ltd. and in July 2004, moved the registered head office fromOsaka toMinato Ward inTokyo.[3]
In 1986, Pilkington bought Libbey Owens Ford. Following an agreed acquisition of 20% ofPilkington of theUnited Kingdom in 2001, in 2006, NSG purchased the remaining 80% of shares.
Founded in 1918, NSG acquired the leadingUK-based glass manufacturer Pilkington plc in June 2006. Today, the company has combined sales of approximately JPY 800 billion, with manufacturing operations in 29 countries and sales in 130 countries, employing some 25 thousand people worldwide.
The Group's Flat Glass businesses, encompassing Building Products and Automotive Products, account for 90 per cent of annual sales, with the balance being in Technical Glass (Creative Technology Business). The Creative Technology business covers a number of niche markets, including lenses for printers and scanners, specialty glass fibers and glass flakes, mainly glass cord, which is a reinforcing material for timing belts, and Fine Glass products.
Geographically, approximately 40 per cent of the Group's sales are inEurope, 25 per cent in Asia including Japan and 35 per cent inNorth America andSouth America.[4]
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