AGC, a world-leading manufacturer of glass, chemicals and high-tech materials, has succeeded in developing flexible antenna design technology for millimeter wave^*1 that realizes ultra-low transmission loss^*2. This innovative technology not only enables low-loss transmission, but also realizes an antenna that is lightweight, thin, and flexible, which makes it possible to install millimeter-wave antennas across a wide range of use-cases that include mobility (i.e. vehicles) as well as electronic devices, industrial equipment and much more. To respond to the approaching IoT era, in which the number of internet-connected devices will reportedly reach some 50 billion devices by 2020, AGC is now focusing efforts on R&D and marketing.

Under its long-term management strategy, "Vision 2025," the AGC Group has positioned mobility and electronics business as key strategic business areas. In particular, AGC regards the practical application of next-generation high-speed communication technologies as a major business opportunity, and accordingly has focused efforts on developing glass antennas that add wireless base station capabilities to existing windows or that can be used as glass-mounted or synthetic fused silica glass antennas for connected cars; increasing the production of fluoropolymers for printed circuit boards; and acquiring a US-based business in the printed circuit board CCL^*3 sector. With this newly developed flexible antenna design technology, AGC intends to accelerate the identification of practical applications in the IoT field and their marketing efforts. AGC is committed to aggressively expanding its business while also contributing to the development of next-generation high-speed communication technologies by combining the technologies in glass, electronics, and chemicals that the company has built up and refined through years of experience.

■ About the AGC Group
AGC Inc.(Headquarters: Tokyo, President & CEO: Takuya Shimamura) is the parent company of the AGC Group, a world-leading glass solution provider and supplier of flat, automotive and display glass, chemicals, ceramics and other high-tech materials and components. Based on more than a century of technical innovation, the AGC Group has developed a wide range of cutting-edge products. The AGC Group employs some 50,000 people worldwide and generates annual sales of approximately 1.5 trillion Japanese yen through business in about 30 countries. For more information, please visit www.agc.com/en

■ About flexible CCL material schematic
The newly developed flexible antenna design technology uses flexible CCL as the antenna materials.