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Nippon Electric Glass (NEG) is one of the largest glass fiber manufacturers in the world, with manufacturing and sales in all three major world regions (Americas, Asia and Europe). The Glass Fiber Division is one of several businesses that make up the global NEG Group – a leading manufacturer of specialty glass, headquartered in Otsu, Japan – that manufactures and sells a broad range of high technology glass products. NEG has a strong focus on customer satisfaction, technology and social responsibility. The global NEG Glass Fiber business has a mission of being the world’s leading manufacturer of high performance, high quality glass fiber products, with a focus on investing in the growth of the business in all regions.
NEG US Glass Fiber includes the former PPG Glass Fiber business unit in the Americas, as well as Sales and Marketing resources that import products from other NEG locations. The NEG acquisition of PPG’s US Glass Fiber operation was completed on September 1, 2017. The US operation has been in existence since 1959 and now includes two manufacturing sites in North Carolina and a Research & Development site in Shelby, NC. In total, NEG US employs approximately one thousand people in a wide variety of commercial, technical, manufacturing and business roles.
The Glass Fiber Division manufactures a range of thermoplastic and thermoset compatible direct roving and chopped strand products, along with continuous strand mat, mult-end roving and wet use chopped strands. These products and NEG’s technical and commercial resources support a wide range of applications in the market – including transportation, wind energy, oil and gas piping, infrastructure and construction. NEG’s glass fiber is used as the primary reinforcement in these applications.