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Asahi Glass Co., Ltd. (旭硝子, Asahi Garasu Kabushiki-gaisha?, AGC) (TYO: 5201 ) is a Japanese manufacturing company. It is one of the core Mitsubishi companies.

Founded in 1907 by Toshiya Iwasaki, the second son of the second president of the original Mitsubishi Corporation, it was the first Japanese producer of sheet glass. For now Asahi Glass Co. is one of the largest flat glass producing company in the world owning Glaverbel glass plants all over the Europe and greatly influencing glass industry in general.

Its main areas of production are:

Automotive glass and industrial material
Bio-technology and environment
Commodity and performance chemicals
Among performance chemicals, Asahi makes fluoropolymer films, including Fluon ETFE laminate, famous for its use as the external surface of the Allianz Arena football stadium, built in 2005 and the world's largest structure made out of ETFE.
Display glass
Electronic materials and products
Flat glass and construction material
Optics and telecommunication

2007-03-04 06:46:18 · answer #1 · answered by THEGURU 6 · 0 0

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