Asahi Glass Co., Ltd.

n. Japanese manufacturer of glass

This article is about a Japanese manufacturing company. Asahi is a common name in Japan, for other uses see Asahi. is a Japanese manufacturing company. It is one of the core Mitsubishi companies.Founded in 1907 by Toshiya Iwasaki, the second son of the second president of the original Mitsubishi Corporation, it was the first Japanese producer of sheet glass. For now Asahi Glass Co. is one of the largest flat glass producing company in the world owning Glaverbel glass plants all over the Europe, AFG Industries in North America and greatly influencing glass industry in general.
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