Success Stories: Ideas for Potential Players SAINT-GOBAIN K.K
Success Stories: Ideas for Potential Players MFManufacturing Saint-Gobain as a group is number one worldwide in Sales / Services SAINT-GOBAIN K.K. industrial ceramics, plastics, abrasives, reinforcement Japan brings new vitality to centuries materials, refractory products, gypsum and cast iron of success pipe, number two in glass containers and number three in flat glass. Now among the world’s hundred leading industrial corporations, its workforce numbers more than 200,000, including subsidiaries and partner firms. Among the 55 countries in which the group is established, however, few are more important than Japan—one of the largest, most advanced economies on Earth, and one where competition in the material and high-technology markets is harshest. Although Saint- Gobain has been doing business in Japan since 1917, it has been particularly strong since the 1970s in merging with companies there in order to share technologies and distribution channels for flat glass, and other high- performance materials. The Japanese affiliate was formally established in 1975. Japan is also home to Saint-Gobain Asia-Pacific General Delegation Office, employing about 600 staff members in Saint Gobain K.K.’s headquarters in Tokyo, built in 2000. the fields of building and automotive glass, glass fiber, ceramics, plastics and abrasives, and providing leading- A worldwide leader in the materials and high-tech edge products and technical services. industries, Saint-Gobain is renowned as an innovator, producer and distributor of glass, ceramics, plastics, cast The construction sector has suffered as much as any in iron, and other materials. This multinational group has Japan’s post-bubble market and persistent economic been developing products for 340 years and now downturn.
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