Collaboration

AGC is a materials manufacturer engaged in a wide range of businesses, including electronics, chemicals, and ceramics, in addition to the glass business on which it was founded. Over the 110 years since its establishment, AGC has combined various technologies cultivated in a range of fields and has provided new functions and value to people's lives in collaboration with leading companies in each era. With the speed of social change becoming faster and faster, materials development also needs to accelerate to keep pace. From our base in AO, we will continue to create new values through collaboration with the world outside AGC.

Collaboration #2: Japan Blind Football Association × AGC

Have you heard about blind soccer? It is a sport based on futsal, in which totally blind players wear eye masks and use balls that emit a sound. The pitch has a fence about one meter high along the sidelines to keep players from leaving the field. The fence is made of a transparent polycarbonate jointly developed by AGC and the Japan Blind Soccer Association.

AGC and sports... How did the two, which seem to have nothing in common, come together? And what will happen next? Retracing the history of this collaboration, we see a new shape of R&D that AGC is aiming for.