AGC Inc.

AGC Inc. is a global manufacturer and distributor of essential materials, operating across the glass, electronics, chemicals, and ceramics sectors. In its glass division, AGC delivers a comprehensive range of products for diverse applications. For architecture, this encompasses laminated, insulating, wired, solar control, toughened, decorative, sound-insulating, float, patterned, and industrial glasses, alongside complete structural glazing systems. The automotive industry benefits from AGC's laminated, tempered, and privacy glasses, integrated glass antennas, patterned glazing, and module assembly windows. The company's electronics materials portfolio is extensive. It supplies critical glass substrates for advanced displays like thin-film-transistor liquid crystal displays (TFT-LCDs) and organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs). AGC also produces a wide array of specialized components, including synthetic fused silica and quartz crystals, silicon carbide, CMP slurry, through-glass vias, high refractive index glass, DOE diffusers, glass ceramics substrates, optical planar devices, IR cut filters, various aspherical and molded lenses (such as micro lens arrays and fly-eye/condenser lenses), polycarbonate and optical sheets, thin films, glass frits, paste, and semiconductor packaging substrates. Furthermore, AGC develops cover glass for smartphones and tablets, glass substrates for photovoltaic devices and touch panels, specialty glasses (including extra clear float glass and transparent conductive oxide glass for a-Si solar modules), and ultra-thin glass for electronic devices. AGC's chemical business offers chlor-alkali, polyurethanes, fluoro, and other specialty chemical products. Within ceramics, their offerings span high thermal insulation walls for furnaces, ceramic beads, sputtering targets, abrasion-resistant ceramics, alumina cement, engineered fine ceramics, and ceramic molding agents for 3D printers. Additionally, AGC engages in other ventures such as digital signage on glass, copper-clad laminates, plastic optical fibers, gas and solvents, and the life science sector. Established in Tokyo, Japan, in 1907 as Asahi Glass Co., Ltd., the company rebranded to AGC Inc. in July 2018.