Japan-based Asahi Glass, the world’s second largest TFT LCD glass substrate supplier, announced last week that its fifth-generation (5G) glass substrate plant at the Yunlin Base of the Central Taiwan Science Park (CTSP) has begun operation. This is the second glass substrate plant the company has built at CTSP and the company has invested NT$18 billion (US$577 million) to build its two Taiwan glass substrate plants, with Taiwan being the only overseas location where Asahi has more than one glass substrate plant.