The story
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.
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1983: Company stock transferred to the First Section of the TSE and OSE.
1988: Started CRT glass operations in the US via joint venture with O-I Glass. (Techneglas)
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.
2017: Acquired three of the largest fiberglass factories in the world from PPG, the largest of which being in Shelby, North Carolina, US.
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