Taiwan Glass Brand Guidelines: Taipei Flat Glass, Glass-Fibre Fabric & Sixty Years

A glass maker built on licences and partnerships.

Taiwan Glass Industry Corporation, known as Taiwan Glass, TG or TGI (台灣玻璃工業), was founded on 25 August 1964, according to Chinese Wikipedia, which names its founder as Lin Yu-chia (林玉嘉). The company’s own history page starts in the same year. Its headquarters is in Taipei’s Songshan district, and its plants are in Taiwan and mainland China.

The early decades were built on technical partnerships, and the company timeline reads like a directory of the glass trade. In 1965 Taiwan Glass began a technical cooperation with Japan’s Asahi Glass, now AGC, for sheet glass, and its Hsinchu sheet-glass plant began production in 1967. A container-glass agreement with Wheaton Glass of the United States followed in 1970, then agreements with Britain’s Pilkington in 1974 and, for float glass, in 1980. Later partners included Germany’s Veba Glass for tableware in 1977, Owens Corning for glass fibre and Japan’s Sibata Hario for heat-resistant glass in 1987, and Kanebo for glass-fibre fabric in 1988, the company and Chinese Wikipedia say. In July 1988, Chinese Wikipedia adds, Taiwan Glass founded Taiwan Auto Glass together with Nippon Sheet Glass and Pilkington, the two names covered in our NSG Group guide.

The company built its own Taipei landmark early: the TGI Building on Nanjing East Road was completed in 1972, and Taiwan Glass shares were listed on the Taiwan Stock Exchange in 1973. Plants followed in Taichung in 1983, Taoyuan in 1990, Lukang in 1998 and the Changbin industrial zone in 2011, according to Chinese Wikipedia and the company timeline.

Mainland China became a major part of the business from the 1990s. The company timeline records a business visit by the founder in 1992; Taiwan Glass China Holding was set up in 1993, and Qingdao Float Glass in 1995 and Changjiang Float Glass in 1997 were among the first plants there. Leadership passed to the next generation in 2009, when Lin Por-fong (林伯豐) became chairman and Lin Por-shih (林伯實) president, Chinese Wikipedia says; both hold those roles on the 2024–2027 board listed by the company.

Flat glass, fibres, bottles and car glass.

Taiwan Glass is a broad maker rather than a specialist. Its 2024 operation report divides the group into four businesses: flat glass, fibreglass and glass-fibre fabric, glass containers and glassware, and automotive glass. Flat glass accounted for 64.6 per cent of group sales that year, fibreglass for 22.8 per cent, containers and glassware for 8.9 per cent and automotive glass for 3.7 per cent, the report says.

The same report lists the plants: two float plants in Taiwan and eleven in China; a glass-fibre plant at Taoyuan and a glass-fabric plant at Lukang, with four fabric plants in China; six container and glassware plants in Taiwan; and automotive-glass plants in Taiwan and China. Its flat-glass menus cover raw sheet, processed glass, automotive glass and low-emissivity coated glass. A further group covers photovoltaic glass and mirror panels for solar-thermal power, and the glassware pages are split into containers, tableware and kitchenware.

Glass fibre has become the part of the business most followed by the financial press. On 3 November 2026 the Taipei Economic Daily News reported that the board had approved a fourth phase of expansion for high-end glass-fibre fabric, used in circuit boards for AI servers, at Taoyuan, Lukang and the Bengbu subsidiary in China. The paper said the high-end electronic-grade fabric market is supplied mainly by Japan’s Nitto Boseki, with more than half, and Taiwan Glass, with about 40 per cent. It reported that the first phase was already in production, the second was due by the end of 2026, the third was targeted for 2027 and the fourth was planned for after 2027.

The company lists its own milestones of recognition. Its timeline says the founder received the Phoenix Award in the United States in 2002, and in November 2019 Japan conferred the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Star on Lin Por-fong. Taiwan News reported on 4 November 2019 that the honour, announced by Japan’s foreign ministry, recognised his work on economic ties and friendship between Taiwan and Japan, as chairman of the Chinese National Association of Industry and Commerce as well as of Taiwan Glass.

How glass makers present themselves.

Glass makers sell mainly to builders, carmakers and bottlers rather than to shoppers, and their brand pages are written for those buyers. The material does much of the visual work. Many of the large producers fill their websites and annual reports with photographs of their own float lines, furnaces and forming machines, shot and published the way each company chooses, next to close-ups of finished sheets, windscreens and bottles.

Product pages tend to follow the three big markets. Architectural ranges cover clear and tinted float glass, coated glass for solar control and insulation, laminated glass and mirrors, each usually with a range name and a technical data sheet. Automotive pages describe windscreens, side and roof glass, and glass with heating, acoustic layers or head-up-display areas. Container makers show bottles and jars by capacity, colour and finish, often with catalogue pages of standard shapes for wine, beer, spirits and food.

Colour belongs to the catalogue as much as to the logo. Flat-glass makers publish swatches for body tints and reflective coatings, and packaging makers name their glass colours, such as flint, amber and green, and show the same bottle shape in each. Corporate pages carry a second kind of identity: maps of plants, lists of countries, ownership histories and stock-market listings, which matter in an industry where many groups have grown by buying or merging with other glassworks.

The guides in this group read those public materials: founding records, owners, plants and product families, as the companies and independent sources describe them. The colours and type samples shown here are our own interpretation, not official brand assets, and no product or mark is reproduced.

Philosophy, quality policy and a flagship store.

The company’s public face is plain and corporate. Its English site opens with a statement of philosophy, to make Taiwan Glass “a highly effective organization” through a global perspective, a sound operating strategy and a strong financial foundation, and a quality policy built on Total Quality Management. The 2020 entry in its timeline records the opening of a flagship store, and in 2024 the company marked its 60th anniversary.

Beyond the corporate pages, the Chinese site includes an applications section with case studies on coloured glass, curved curtain walls, point-supported structural glass and energy-saving glazing, alongside articles on the development of structural glass design. Its sitemap also gives low-emissivity glass its own entry. The palette in this guide is our own interpretation and is not taken from the logo.

The timeline also records the plant-by-plant growth of the group in China after 2000, with float, architectural, photovoltaic and glass-fibre companies set up in cities including Chengdu, Tianjin, Kunshan and Bengbu.

For a design guide, Taiwan Glass shows how a materials maker can tell six decades of licensing and plant-building as its story, with products that mostly end up inside buildings, circuit boards and kitchens. Compare AGC, its first technical partner in 1965, and NSG Group, a partner in Taiwan Auto Glass. For this guide we use a deep bottle green, ink, a pale glass grey and an amber with a sans, an unofficial interpretation; no product or logo is reproduced.

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