100 Years of History
NSG Group Celebrates Its 100th Anniversary
Japanese and American engineers collaborated at the Futajima Plant
Early years1914 - 1933
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1914
Yosaburo Sugita’s encounter
with the Colburn process -
1917
Colburn process patent rights
obtained from Libbey Owens Sheet
Glass Company
The Certificate of Transfer for the Colburn process patent rights -
1918
America Japan Sheet Glass Company was established
The inaugural office building, which would later become the head office -
1919
Libbey Owens engineers provided training in Japan
The Company team and Libbey Owens engineers (In front of the Futajima Plant main building) -
1920
Futajima Plant completion and
start of operations
Futajima Plant around the start of operations -
1920
Logo and trademark for America Japan Sheet Glass Company
Company logo (left) and its trademark (right) -
1920
Selling flat glass
Newspaper ad announcing the commencement of sales -
1921
Promotional film “How is flat glass made?”
The title of a promotional film -
1921
First management crisis
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1922
Sumitomo to rebuild America Japan Sheet Glass Company
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1923
Rebuilding Efforts and First Profit
Packing the glass with straw -
1923
The Great Kanto Earthquake and
rebuilding efforts -
1925
First dividend
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1928
First increase in capital and
manufacturing capacity -
1929
Fumio Nakamura, sales director (who became president later ) sets up local distributors
A distributor’s sign board -
1931
Company named changed to
Nippon Sheet Glass
“Hinomaru (Japanese flag)” trademark and new company name -
1932
Introduction of template glass molding
Template glass molding -
1933
15th anniversary
The 15th anniversary Gold Cup