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AGC Ceramics Co., Ltd.

Supplying solutions based on ceramic materials, AGC Ceramics Co., Ltd. wants to contribute to the creation of a better society with an emphasis on environmental conservation and to be a corporation that can win the trust of customers—a corporation that employees and their families are happy with and proud of.

The company provides customers with two solutions, mainly in the glass engineering field, in which the company's know-how of ceramic product glass-melting furnaces plays a pivotal role and the environment and energy field, in which the company's melting furnace, incineration furnace and fine ceramic expertise provides the driving force.

Glass engineering field

Environment and energy field

Location: Shiba 4-1-23, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-0014, Japan
Capital: ¥3,500 million
Employees: 233 (as of December 2008)
Main business activities: Production and sale of refractories and fine ceramics; design and installation of glass kilns and other industrial furnaces; and sale of accessories for these

Environmental Performance Data

		2004	2005	2006	2007	2008
Air	CO2 (thousands of tons)	9	11	19	18	18
	NOx (tons)	1	1	1	1	0
	SOx (tons)	0	0	0	0	0
	Soot and dust (tons)	1	1	0	1	0
Water	Wastewater (1,000 m³)	508	407	445	388	416
Water	COD (tons)	1	1	1	1	1
Waste	Waste finally sent to landfill (tons)	958	523	491	553	271

*1 In 2003, we changed our fiscal year period, which resulted in there being only nine months in our fiscal 2003. For the fiscal year, data for the nine months are multiplied by fraction of 12/9 to achieve an annualized figure.

Frequency Ratio of Accidents Requiring Leave

2004	2005	2006	2007	2008
0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00

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

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