Common Basic Technologies and Core Technologies

Shortly after the success of its founding business of domestic production of at glass, World War I made it impossible to import soda ash, a raw material for glass, and refractory bricks for glass melting furnaces. In order to ful¬fill our mission of domestically producing glass, we started our own production, which is the starting point of our current Chemicals and Ceramics Businesses. Since then, we have consistently reflected the changes in each era by providing value to society through the marketing of many different materials and solutions for motorization, IT development, and environmental issues. Through these businesses, we have established technologies related to a wide range of materials—from inorganic and organic materials through to biomaterials. We have fostered, as core technologies, functional design technology, which combines our diverse technologies to realize even greater functionality, and production technology, which facilitates the stable, highly effi¬cient manufacture of quality products. At the same time, we have accumulated and deepened common basic technologies such as analysis and evaluation, simulation, and plant engineering that support product production and technological development.
AGC continues to take on the challenge of creating social and economic value by combining these technologies based on its uniquely superior material technologies, functional design technologies that realize high functionality, and production technologies.