St. Helens Chamber, April 2011

• NSG Group Overview
• NSG Group’s Solar Energy Business and
Strategy
• Solar Energy technologies and our solar energy product range
• The role of St. Helens

NSG Group - Historical Background
Pilkington
•
1826 - established in St. Helens as a partnership
•
1849 - converted to private company,
Pilkington Brothers
•
1959 - invented the Float Process
• 1970 - listed on London Stock
Exchange as Pilkington plc
• 2006 - acquired by NSG (through
NSG UK Enterprises Ltd)
NSG
•
1918 - established as America
Japan Sheet Glass Co., Ltd
•
1931 - changed company name to
Nippon Sheet Glass Co., Ltd.
•
1950 - listed on Tokyo Stock
Exchange
•
1990 - invested in Libbey-
Owens-Ford Co
•
2000 - initial investment in
Pilkington
• 2006 - acquired all outstanding equity of Pilkington plc
Acquisition of Pilkington plc in 2006

• A global glass leader – operating under the Pilkington brand in
Building Products and Automotive.
• Consolidated net sales of ¥ 588,394 billion for FY ended 31
March 2010
• Principal operations in 29 countries, with sales in approximately 130 countries
• Ownership/interests in 49 float lines worldwide
• Approximately 28,500 permanent employees globally
• Leading supplier of high value-added building glass
• Global Automotive customer base
• Strong position in glass for solar energy applications
• Leading player in lenses for multi-function printers
A global leader of scale in Flat Glass

Solar Energy is one of the Group’s key strategic objectives

• To be the number one, specialist, global supplier to the Solar Energy sector offering full glass solutions.
– Full sector participation; photovoltaics, concentrators, water heaters
– Superior technical performance to competitors products
– Preferred glass supplier status
– Global approach

Crystalline Silicon Photovoltaics
Sun

Electricity
Thin Film Photovoltaics
Sun

Electricity
- Pilkington
Sunplus™
- Pilkington
Optiwhite™
NSG
TEC™
Pilkington
Optiwhite™
Concentrated Solar Power
Sun

Heat

Electricity
- Pilkington
Optiwhite™
Solar Thermal Collectors
Sun

Heat
- Pilkington
Optiwhite™
- Pilkington
Sunplus™

Rapidly Expanding Global Market Demand..
40
35
30
25
30 lines
NSG Group Forecast Prod
Mar-11
EPIA Policy Driven Senario
May-10
EPIA Moderate Senario
May-10
First Solar Feb-11
20
Barclays Capital Feb-11
15 iSuppli Aug-10
7 lines
10
SolarBuzz Dec-10
5
Auriga Jun-10
NSG Group Forecast Install
Mar-11
2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014
1 GW = 1 glass plant output (approx.)

Global Solar Production Facilities
St. Helens is a Global Hub for Solar Manufacturing

• Advanced high technology transparent and conductive coatings on low iron glass
Manufactured at Greengate and shipped all over the world

Batch mixing
Float Bath
Annealing Lehr
Inspection
Molten Tin
Molten Tin
3.3m
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CVD Coaters

Crystalline Silicon Photovoltaic Technology c-Si Module
(laminate of interconnected silicon wafer cell)
Mono crystalline
Off-the-shelf Single cell
(on silicon wafer)
Poly crystalline
Manufactured at Watson Street Works and shipped to Europe

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2 Surface Types Matt-Matt MM or Solalite-Matt SM

Low Iron Rolled Glass Manufacture

• Solar Energy is an exciting and rapidly growing sector for high technology, glass products; both coated and rolled
• The Solar Energy sector is one of NSG
Group’s key strategic focus
• St. Helens is one of the Group’s global hubs for the manufacture of Solar glass products