Nippon Sheet Glass
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| Traded as | : Nikkei 225 Component |
| Industry | Glass |
| Founded | Osaka, Japan (November 22, 1918) |
| Headquarters | Sumitomo Fudosan Mita Twin Bldg. West Wing, 5-27, Mita 3-Chome, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-6321, Japan |
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Key people
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Keiji Yoshikawa (CEO and President) |
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| Revenue | (¥ 521.346 billion) (FY 2012) |
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$ -349 million (FY 2012) (¥ -32.808 billion) (FY 2012) |
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Number of employees
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28,000 (as of March 31, 2013) |
| Website | Official website |
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Footnotes / references |
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$ -349 million (FY 2012)
Nippon Sheet Glass Co., Ltd. (日本板硝子株式会社 Nihon Ita-Garasu Kabushiki-gaisha?) is a Japanese glass manufacturing company. In 2006 it purchased Pilkington of the United Kingdom. This makes NSG/Pilkington one of the four largest glass companies in the world alongside another Japanese company Asahi Glass, Saint-Gobain, and Guardian Industries.
The company is listed on the and is a constituent of the Nikkei 225 .
The company was established in November 1918 as America Japan Sheet Glass Co., Ltd. with its head office in Osaka, after it obtained technology from Libbey Owens Ford Glass Co. of the United States to produce flat glass using the Colburn process. The company changed its name to the Nippon Sheet Glass Co., Ltd. in January 1931. It expanded operations across Japan post World 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 Apr 2001 the company acquired Nippon Muki Co., Ltd. and in July 2004 moved the registered head office from Osaka to Minato Ward in Tokyo.
In 1986, Pilkington bought Libbey Owens Ford. Following an agreed acquisition of 20% of Pilkington of the United Kingdom in 2001, in 2006 NSG purchased the residual 80% of shares, a company then double its size.
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