AGC Flat Glass (Thailand) Public (AFT), which manufactures and sells various float glass, conducted an activity called “Open Kids' Vision to the World” in November 2009. In this program, AFT invited children living in a deep forest region in the western part of Thailand to the Sattahip coast in Chonburi, where its factory is located, to provide an opportunity to see the boundless ocean for the first time and broaden their views by recognizing how large the world is. The children who played in the sea with employees of AFT said at the end of the tour “Thank you very much” with tears in their eyes. Subsequently, in December of the same year, the employees visited the children in their hometown and presented school supplies and daily necessities to them. AFT will continue to conduct these activities to help children widen their views and live in a brighter world.

Children playing in the sea with employees

Since 2003, AGC Automotive Thailand (AATH), which manufactures and sells automotive glass, has been annually dispatching employees to a school to repair or extend its building under its White Factory Project. The school is chosen from among the schools from which employees have graduated. After a school is selected, engineers from the company draw up the necessary designs, AATH pays for the construction materials, and the employees visit the school during holidays to do repair or extension work. In recognition of their work, the employees, who are graduates of the school, become local heroes, and AATH can thereby foster even better communications with local communities. In fiscal 2009, AATH dispatched employees to an elementary school in the northeastern part of Thailand. The employees repaired the school building, whose construction had been suspended due to a lack of funds, by installing doors and windows and also painting the outer wall of the school.

Employees doing repair work for the school

P.T. Asahimas Flat Glass (AMG) manufactures and sells float glass for buildings and automobiles in Indonesia. AMG aims to reform its plants into “greener and cleaner” ones by reducing the environmental impact from its manufacturing processes and actively contributing to the global environment with the participation of its employees. In addition, AMG believes that this activity will contribute to biodiversity and reduce the emission of CO2 that can cause climate change.
On January 31, 2010, the AMG Jakarta Plant held the event, “One person, one tree” and gave out various kinds of trees to the participants, including employees and their families, to plant in their gardens. This was also aimed at raising the environmental awareness of the employees and their families. In addition, trees were planted within the plant premises and a competition, based on the growth speed of the young trees planted by each department, was held.
AMG has also been holding a similar event, “One person, two trees, three biopori” in the Cikampek Plant since November 2009; and “Family gathering for plantation” was held in the Sidoarjo Plant on May 23, 2010. In these three events, we planted approximately 5,000 trees.

Jakarta Plant	Cikampek Plant	Sidoarjo Plant

Employees visiting Haeneung Children Nursing Home

AGC Display Glass Ochang, which manufactures glass substrates for flat panel displays in South Korea, believes it necessary to promote community relations on a steady and continuous basis, in order to conduct its business operations in harmony with local communities. Based on this idea, the employees continuously visit neighboring orphanages to cheer up the children. In December 2009, the president and employees visited Haeneung Children Nursing Home, where at least 100 children were living together. The participants enjoyed playing traditional games with the children, gave Christmas presents, and had fun with them.

Members of the pallet manufacturing company and ASC

P.T. Asahimas Chemical (ASC), which manufactures and sells chemicals such as caustic soda and vinyl chloride in Indonesia, creates new employment through manufacturing wooden pallets for product transportation. ASC began this activity in 1999 to help people suffering under the economic crisis based on the idea: “better to provide a fishing rod rather than fish. As a result of giving easy-to-understand instructions to those engaged in the manufacture of the pallets on a continual basis, including how to manufacture the pallet and manage the materials, ASC has contributed to promoting local employment. It has also become possible for ASC to procure pallets meeting its quality criteria at appropriate prices by the set deadlines. At present, ASC is examining creating employment through projects other than pallet manufacturing.

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AGC Group has been running a course in glass technology at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok since 1990. Chulalongkorn University is a prestigious national university that was founded in 1916 and has as many as several tens of thousands of students. The Glass Technology Course is part of the core curriculum for third-year students studying materials science at the Faculty of Science. The course, which takes place for two hours a week in the latter half of the school year, covers glass manufacturing and related technologies and is presented by Japanese and Thai employees of AGC Group companies located in Thailand. While it is sometimes difficult for these employees to prepare and deliver lectures at the same time as carrying out their other duties, it provides them with a valuable opportunity to teach at a university and interact with local Thai people outside of their work. AGC Group intends to continue running the course.

Chulalongkorn University