Our Business
The Central Glass Group produces glass and chemical products as its major lines of business. This page takes a closer look at our products.
The Company was founded as a chemical manufacturer to produce soda products. Later, it embarked on a fertilizer business by developing the production system to produce both soda ash and ammonium chloride. Furthermore, the Company ventured in the glass industry since soda ash is a primary material for glass.
Our glass business first focused on architectural glass products. As the company's level of glass manufacturing techniques sufficiently increased, our business evolved into producing automotive glass. In recent years, we have expanded our business into fine glass to produce flat glass for displays. The Company also began to produce glass fibers as a new business rather than the evolution of an existing business.
In our chemicals business, we started our fluorine business as an effective use of the fluorine that was a by-product in a fertilizer production process. Our efforts have been successful in developing high performance and high value-added products such as organic fluorine products for industrial use, active ingredients for pharmaceuticals and agrochemicals, their intermediates, and other fluorine compounds for semiconductor and LCD related industries.
Central Glass is determined to further enhance our core technologies, meet challenges in innovative areas, and develop and offer excellent products.
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Central Glass offers a variety of glass products from standard products to high-performance and special-purpose products for the architectural and housing industries.
Specifically, our efforts are concentrated on broadening our line of products to contribute to developing a safe and comfortable living environment, reducing environmental burden and saving energy.
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Central Glass provides abroad range of high-quality glass products for enhanced safety, amenity and design .
We have built a development and supply framework in partnership with the Saint-Gobain Group to meet the requirements of globalization in the automotive sector.
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Central Glass offers mainly thin sheet glass for the information and electronics industries, coated glass, powder glass and glass pastes.
Furthermore, we focus on R&D of eco-friendly compositions and products which are free of lead and heavy metals.
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Central Glass offers glass fiber and glass wool. We focus on development of special materials and products, such as products for automotive and electronics applications.
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Central Glass original business offers organic and inorganic chemical products that are basic materials for various industries, including soda ash, which is a raw material for our glass products.
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Central Glass runs fine chemicals business strongly supported by R&D activities in fluorination technologies at its core. Central Glass offers high-purity and high-performance products, including active ingredients and intermediates in the field of pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals and semiconductors. Moreover, we are developing useful microbial pesticide and microorganism materials for the environmentally friendly agriculture by using the microorganism that exists in the natural world.
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The Central Glass Group, the sole Japanese manufacturer of ammonium chloride-based fertilizers, offers various fertilizer products including those for rice paddy.
