R&D facility accelerates collaboration potential
AGC has completed an R&D building at the Yokohama Technical Center (Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama) at a total cost of approximately 20 billion yen. The facility houses a collaborative creation space called ‘AO (AO/AGC OPEN SQUARE)’, established to accelerate internal and external collaboration.
The project is based on a concept of beng a place for seamless internal and external integration, response and collaboration.
It is expected to significantly improve the speed of R&D through the consolidation and integration of the R&D functions related to basic technology, new products, processes and facility technology, which had previously been dispersed in two locations.
In addition, it creates new business fields and new value by establishing a collaboration place to work with other companies and research institutions.
