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Aichi Plant

Aichi Plant

Established in 1970, the Aichi Plant started operation as a factory producing flat glass that serves as material for laminated and tempered glass to be supplied to vehicle manufacturers. Today it produces safety glass for automotive and glass substrates for solar cells.

Location: Asahi 1, Taketoyo-cho, Chita-gun, Aichi, 470-2394, Japan
Start of operation: 1970
Representative: Kazuya Ohba
Employees: 1,152 (as of July 2009)
Main business activities: Production of flat glass, automotive safety glass and glass substrates for solar cells

Environmental Performance Data

  2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
Air CO2 (thousands of tons) 334 371 401 356 369
NOx (tons) 624 671 703 584 461
SOx (tons) 621 696 607 712 650
Soot and dust (tons) 60 45 54 35 31
Water Wastewater (1,000 m3) 2,310 2,420 2,540 2,760 2,750
COD (tons) 7 7 7 7 7
Waste Waste finally sent to landfill (tons) 1,500 874 216 589 202

Frequency Ratio of Accidents Requiring Leave

2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
0.00 0.34 0.16 0.00 0.00

* The data cover all employees at the operating site (including cooperating companies).

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