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Singapore International Green Building Conference 2025 (IGBC-SG 2025), held from 9–11 July and organised by the Singapore Green Building Council, brought together industry leaders and sustainability professionals for three days of presentations
AGC participated as a Platinum Partner, reinforcing its commitment to driving sustainable innovation in the built environment. As part of its involvement, AGC also joined the panel discussion, “Sustainability in Flux: Navigating Green Progress Amid Political Shifts,” contributing its global insights on maintaining sustainability momentum in an evolving policy landscape.
The event concluded with the SGBC Gala Dinner, celebrating excellence in green building. Since its launch in 2009, IGBC-SG has served as a key platform to showcase Singapore’s leadership in tropical sustainable development and emerging trends in green building technologies.
AGC Inc. will exhibit in the “Circular Economy Laboratory,” an interactive event organized by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), from Tuesday, September 23 to Monday, September 29, 2025, at the EXPO Messe indoor exhibition hall “WASSE” South Hall during Expo 2025 Osaka–Kansai. In collaboration with the science manga series “Kagaku Manga Survival,” this event provides a hands-on learning platform on the circular economy. We will highlight the “Flat Glass to Flat Glass” initiative—regenerating used flat glass into new flat glass—and showcase our advanced efforts toward horizontal recycling of flat glass.
Flat glass is inherently a material that can be recycled indefinitely through a melting process. However, the effective reuse of post-consumer flat glass remains insufficient: in Japan, wasted architectural window glass is estimated to over 500,000 tons per year. Moreover, solar panels with an expected service life of 20–30 years are projected to generate several hundred thousand tons of waste by the late 2030s. Cover glass accounts for about 60 percent of a solar panel’s total weight, raising concerns over the environmental impact of landfill disposal.
We have established a horizontal recycling scheme for window glass in collaboration with our partner companies and have successfully recycled used solar panel cover glass into float glass, which is previously considered technically challenging. This not only reduces industrial waste but also cuts the consumption of virgin raw materials and significantly lowers GHG emissions in the flat glass manufacturing process.
As part of our medium-term management plan “AGC plus-2026” and under the banner of our “Blue planet” vision, the AGC Group is committed to reducing environmental impact and promoting resource circulation, thereby accelerating our contribution to a sustainable society.
Date: Tuesday, September 23 to Monday, September 29, 2025
Location: the EXPO Messe indoor exhibition hall “WASSE” South Hall
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