Nippon Electric Glass

Nippon Electric Glass Co., Ltd.
Public KK
Traded as TYO: 5214
Nikkei 225 Component
Industry Glass
Founded (December 1, 1949 (1949-12-01))
Headquarters 7-1, Seiran 2-chome, Ōtsu, Shiga 520-8639, Japan
Key people
Yuzo Izutsu
(Chairman of the Board)
Masayuki Arioka
(President)
Products
Revenue

Decrease US$ 2.4 billion (FY 2013)

(¥ 252.54 billion) (FY 2013)
Profit

Increase US$ 118.2 million (FY 2013)

(¥ 12.43 billion) (FY 2013)
Number of employees
5,275 (consolidated as of June 2014)
Website Official website
Footnotes / references
[1][2][3]

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

Products

Glass for display devices

  • Glass for Liquid Crystal Displays (LCDs)
    • Substrate glass for LCDs
    • Glass tubing for cold cathode fluorescent lamps (CCFL)
    • Cell spacing for LCDs (micro rods)
  • Glass for Plasma Display Panels (PDPs)
    • Substrate glass for PDPs
    • Glass pastes for PDPs
    • Glass for exhaust tubes, tablets, and firing setters
  • Glass for CRTs
    • Panel glass for CRTs
    • CRT neck tubes, stem tubes, and exhaust tubes

Glass for electronic devices

  • Powder glass
  • Cover glass for image sensors
  • Glass for diodes
  • Glass for laser diodes
  • Glass for optical devices
    • Glass ferrules and micro capillaries for optical connectors
    • Glass material for aspherical lenses
    • Collimator components
    • Micro prisms
    • Coupler housing

Glass fiber

  • Chopped strands for function plastics
  • Yarns for printed circuit boards
  • Roving for reinforced plastic
  • Alkali resistant glass fiber

Building materials, heat-resistant glass

  • Glass for building materials
    • Glass blocks
    • Glass-ceramic building materials
    • Fire-rated glass
    • Radiation shielding glass
  • Heat-resistant glass
    • Super heat-resistant glass-ceramic
    • Super heat-resistant glass-ceramic for cooking appliance top plates
    • Heat-resistant glass
  • Glass for lighting and medical use
    • Glass for lighting
    • Glass for medical and laboratory applications
    • Glass for thermos flasks

References

  1. "Corporate Information". Nippon Electric Glass. Retrieved September 5, 2014.
  2. "Company Summary". Google Finance. Retrieved September 5, 2014.
  3. "Corporate Financials". Bloomberg Businessweek. Retrieved September 5, 2014.
  4. "Display Glass: Bigger, Thinner, and Stronger". Society for Information Display. January 2012. Retrieved September 7, 2014.
  5. "Components:Nikkei Stock Average". Nikkei Inc. Retrieved September 5, 2014.
  6. "Company History". Nippon Electric Glass. Retrieved September 5, 2014.
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