Turning the Big Issue, Climate Change, into a Great Opportunity

AGC Group is globally engaged in a wide range of businesses, including glass, electronics and chemicals fields. The climate change problem is a big issue for us, because we need a lot of energy to manufacture most of our products. We regard that it is our duty to deliver technology solutions such as the introduction of more energy-efficient technologies in our manufacturing process to contribute to solve the climate change problem.
The climate change problem, however, also provides AGC Group with a great opportunity to contribute to society through its business operations. By taking advantage of our glass and chemical technologies, we develop and globally promote environmentally friendly products such as materials and parts for photovoltaic devices and solar thermal power generation, and energy-saving glass. We would thereby like to become a corporate group that is trusted and counted on by society.

• Management policy Grow Beyond

(Reference) Glass manufacturing process:float method

Flat glass for construction is mainly produced with the technique called “float method”, a method to produce flat glass by floating liquid glass over molten tin. This glass manufacturing gives the biggest impact on the environment mainly due to the process of melting materials, such as silica sand and soda ash, by fuel oil to produce chemical reactions, as well as the process of keeping the melted materials in the melting tank for long hours to manufacture homogenous glass without air bubbles. During these processes, the large melting tank of over several ten meters in length, has to be kept at a high temperature for many hours.