Nippon Sheet Glass Company, Limited manufactures and sells glass and glazing products worldwide. The company operates through Architectural, Automotive, Technical Glass, and Other segments. It offers architectural products, including solar control, thermal insulation, fire Protection, noise control, safety/security, self-cleaning, decoration, and solar energy glasses; glass systems; and low-iron float, very thin float, curved glass, and switchable glasses under the Pilkington brand. The company also provides automotive products, such as original equipment glazing systems to vehicle manufacturers; replacement glazing products to automotive glass replacement professionals; and glazing solutions for transport vehicles. In addition, Nippon Sheet Glass Company, Limited offers functional filler products under the MICROGLAS, METASHINE, FLEKA, and GLASFLAKE names; AGM separator, a component for valve regulated lead-acid batteries; PE separators to isolate electrodes, as well as to protect active materials of anode for sli and industrial batteries; glass mat for flooded-type batteries; and sleeve tubes used for an anode of clad type lead-acid batteries. Further, it provides glass cords and curlsorbers for industrial applications; SELFOC lens arrays and micro lenses; SELGUIDE, a light source for image scanning; Planar SELGUIDE, a surface light source; ultra-fine flat glasses, film-coated glasses for liquid crystal displays (LCDs), glasses for PDP front filters, and LCD modules; and optical fiber fluorescence detectors, as well as nanostructured optical elements on glass substrate. The company was formerly known as America Japan Sheet Glass Co., Ltd. and changed its name to Nippon Sheet Glass Company, Limited in 1931. Nippon Sheet Glass Company, Limited was founded in 1918 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
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