Auto glass in the car accounted for a large area, front windshield, rear windshield, front and rear four windows, almost covering half of the body area, if there is also a sunroof, it occupies more area, the safety of automotive glass is particularly important for our car. Speaking of automotive glass, everyone is more familiar with Fuyao glass, in our country, many domestic cars, joint venture cars, and even some imported cars, using Fuyao glass.
However, in fact, Fuyao Glass is not particularly large in the proportion of glass companies in the world, so what are the other glass brands that account for a large proportion? Brother Meow today to give you a look at the world's top ten well-known glass brands. The top three are Pirkington, AGC Asahi Glass and St. Bangor. Pyrkington, England is also one of the largest glass production groups in the world, and it is said that one out of every four cars has a windshield from the Pirkington family.
Japan's Asahi Glass brand is close behind, covering more than 90% of automakers in global automotive glass matching, with a market share of more than 30%, ranking first in the world. France's Saint-Bangor has three factories in Shanghai, Qingdao and Wuhan in our country, as well as service centers of supporting OEMs across the country, and has close cooperation with major domestic automobile manufacturers.
Japan's NSG plate glass ranks fourth with its major manufacturing bases around the world, and in fifth place is the American Garden Glass Group, one of the world's largest flat glass companies. The sixth is the Fuyao glass that we are familiar with. Fuyao is already a large multinational group, and its share in the domestic automotive safety glass market has reached about 80%. Domestic cars, joint venture cars and many imported cars use Fuyao glass.
The remaining seventh Xinyi glass, the eighth CSG glass, the ninth Yaohua glass, the tenth gold crystal glass are our country's very good glass brands, the development is very rapid, gradually leading the world, occupying half of the ranking list. Automotive glass can not only shield us from the wind and rain, but also have very high requirements for safety performance, which is an indispensable and important part of our cars.
When the car is in production, although it is possible to use two or even three different brands of glass on a car, such as the front and rear windshields may use Fuyao, and several windows are used in Pirkington or AGC, it is not necessarily, but it is definitely glass that has passed the strict safety test. In the follow-up car, if there is a collision accidentally, the glass needs to be replaced, and the glass of good quality should also be preferred, which has a certain basic guarantee for our driving safety.