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Nippon Electric Glass

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Type
  
Public KK

Headquarters
  
Japan

Number of employees
  
5,275

Industry
  
Glass

Founded
  
1949

Traded as
  
TYO: 5214Nikkei 225 Component

Key people
  
Yuzo Izutsu(Chairman of the Board)Masayuki Arioka(President)

Products
  
Glass productsGlassmaking machinery

Revenue
  
US$ 2.4 billion (FY 2013)(¥ 252.54 billion) (FY 2013)

Stock price
  
5214 (TYO) JP¥ 698 +15.00 (+2.20%)28 Mar, 11:20 AM GMT+9 - Disclaimer

Subsidiaries
  
Electric Glass Building Materials Co., Ltd

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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).

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

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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.
  • 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.

    • References

    Nippon Electric Glass Wikipedia
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