Key Takeaways Advancements in product offerings, manufacturing expansion, and strategic exits are set to improve AGC's margins, profitability, and growth capacity across core business segments. Rising global demand for energy-efficient and technologically advanced glass, driven by regulations and urbanization, provides sustained tailwinds for long-term revenue and earnings growth.
AGC Inc. manufactures and sells architectural glass, electronics, chemicals, automotive, and ceramics worldwide. The company offers architectural glass products, including insulated, laminated, wired, toughened, solar control, sound insulation, decorative, float and patterned, and industrial glass; structural glazing systems; and automotive glass, such as laminated, tempered, and privacy glass, as well as integrated glass antennas and module assembly windows. It provides glass substrates for thin-film-transistor liquid crystal displays and OLEDs; synthetic fused silica glass, synthetic quartz crystals, silicon carbides, CMP slurry, through glass Vias, high refractive index glass, diffusers, glass ceramics substrates, optical devices, IR cut filters, aspherical glass and molded lens, and micro lens array products; polycarbonate and sheets, and films; and glass frits and pastes, as well as glass substrates for semiconductor packaging and other electronic materials. In addition, the company offers cover glass for smartphones and tablet devices; glass substrates for photovoltaic devices and touch panels; specialty glass; float glass; and ultra-thin glass for electronics devices. Further, it provides chlor-alkali, polyurethanes, fluoro, and specialty chemical products; high thermal insulation ceramics wall for furnaces; and ceramic beads, sputtering targets, abrasion resistant ceramics, alumina cement, engineering ceramics, and ceramics molding agents for 3D printers. Additionally, the company engages in copper-clad laminate, and plastic optical fiber businesses; and resins, gas and solvents, and life science businesses. AGC Inc. was formerly known as Asahi Glass Co., Ltd. and changed its name to AGC Inc. in July 2018. The company was founded in 1907 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
