Asahi Glass Cuts U.S. Production of Automotive Glass by 10%

The company operates processing plants in Kentucky and Ohio that can together produce glass for about 3 million vehicles a year, company spokesman Hiroyuki Wakasugi said today by telephone. The Tokyo-based glassmaker hasn't decided how long the reduced output will continue, he said.

The cutback, reported earlier in the Nikkei newspaper, comes two months after the company announced a plan to scale back production of construction glass because of a U.S. housing slump and higher raw material costs.



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