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AGC Releases Newest Chemically Strengthened Specialty Glass for Mobile Devices

by Bob Raikes

AGC Asahi Glass (AGC) has announced a new, stronger lineup of its Dragontrail series of chemically strengthened glass used globally in smartphones and tablets. Called Dragontrail Pro, the new line features a rounded edge …

Asahi Glass Result 01/08/2016

by Dhruv Dayal Gupta

Asahi Glass reported H1 2016 net profit of 29 billion yen ($287 million), down 18% YoY from 35 billion yen ($346 million). Turnover was 624 billion yen ($6.1 billion), down 5% YoY from 658 …

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Asahi Revises Sales Down and Profits Up

by Tom Allen

Asahi Glass has revised both its first half and full year 2016 consolidated financial forecasts, based on ‘recent performance trends’. The previous forecast for the first half 2016 was ¥680 billion ($6.4 billion), with …

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A Weapon for LCD Against OLED?

by Bob O'Brien

In the continuous effort to improve LCD TV, to stave off the threat of OLED as well as to try to keep TV price declines to a minimum, manufacturers are pushing innovation in many …

Welcome to the Glass Age

by Ken Werner

Glass is essential to the display and lighting worlds, but it’s hard to make it as exciting as eye candy such as the LG 77″ UHD, HDR OLED-TV that wowed Display Week attendees as …

BC24 Asahi Promotes its Brand

by Bob Raikes

Naoki Sugimoto is from Asahi Glass and he started by showing how images are likely to be seen on windscreens in the future. There can be no compromise on safety. Asahi also has chemical …

“Thin is in” at SID Awards

by Tom Allen

The Society for Information Display has named the winners of the 21st annual Display Industry Awards, which will be presented during SID Display Week this month. SID president Amal Ghosh noted that “‘thin’ is …

Asahi Result 09/05/2016

by Dhruv Dayal Gupta

Asahi Glass reported Q1 2016 net loss of 57 billion yen ($521 million), compared to a net profit of 16.5 billion yen ($150 million) in the same period last year. Turnover was 308 billion …

Tags:Asahi Glass Corporation (AGC)| Financial Data| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 19

AGC to Expand its Supply System

by Isaac Oburu

Asahi Glass (AGC) has announced that it intends to strengthen its system to supply cover glass for car-mounted displays at its subsidiary AGC Display Glass Yonezawa Co., citing strong demand. This glass is a …

Asahi Etches Glass for Fingerprints

by Tom Allen

Asahi Glass was showing a new cover glass product, on the CrucialTec stand, with a recess to house a fingerprint sensor. It is called ‘Glass on Top with Shine’. Today’s fingerprint sensors can read …

Asahi Glass Result 05/02/2016

by Dhruv Dayal Gupta

Asahi Glass reported full year 2015 net profit of 42.9 billion Yen ($375 million), up 105% YoY, from 15.9 Yen ($139 million). Turnover was reported at 1.32 trillion Yen ($10.7 billion), down slightly by …

Asahi Glass Result 29/10/2015

by Dhruv Dayal Gupta

Asahi Glass company reported net profit for Q3 2015 at JP¥ 8.8 billion ($72.8 million), up 47% YoY, but down 70% QoQ. Turnover was flat at JP¥ $331 billion, compared to JP¥ 335 billion …