Nippon Sheet Glass Co. is planning to restart an idle furnace at its flat glass plant in Malaysia in spring 2005 to keep pace with growing regional demand.
The restart will approximately double the …
Nippon Sheet Glass Co. is planning to restart an idle furnace at its flat glass plant in Malaysia in spring 2005 to keep pace with growing regional demand. The restart will approximately double the plant“s capacity for auto glass. The furnace, one of two at Nippon Sheet Glass subsidiary Malaysian Sheet Glass Bhd, was closed in May 2001. It has a daily production capacity of 350 tons. Roughly 100 employees will be hired to coincide with the restart of the furnace. Output from the furnace will be processed at a local Nippon Sheet Glass plant into formed products, which will then be supplied to local and Japanese automobile manufacturers in the region. The single furnace currently working has a production capacity of 500 tons a day. Of this, two-thirds is sold for construction use and the remaining third for automobile use. With the restart of the second furnace, the first furnace will specialize in construction-use glass and the second in automobile-use sheet glass.