{"id":519466,"date":"2026-06-05T04:22:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T04:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/519466\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T04:22:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T04:22:14","slug":"nippon-electric-glass-looks-to-supply-material-for-rumored-foldable-iphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/519466\/","title":{"rendered":"Nippon Electric Glass looks to supply material for rumored foldable iPhone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/business\/materials\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Materials<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Japanese company pours molten glass from 8 stories up to make ultrathin product<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/0\/2.jpeg\" alt=\"20260604N NEG glass phones\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">These foldable smartphones from Motorola, left, and Honor, right, use glass made by Nippon Electric Glass. (Nippon Electric Glass)<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">OSAKA &#8212; With Apple speculated to launch a foldable smartphone model as early as this year, a spotlight is shining on the technological innovations that glassmakers have realized to create glass that is bendable yet durable. Nippon Electric Glass has developed flexible glass only 10% or so as thick as conventional products.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Materials Japanese company pours molten glass from 8 stories up to make ultrathin product These foldable smartphones from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":519467,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[257],"tags":[18,142225,22964,9423,19,431,17,57529,13937,279,224536,224537,10337,82],"class_list":["post-519466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mobile","tag-eire","tag-electric","tag-foldable","tag-glass","tag-ie","tag-iphone","tag-ireland","tag-looks","tag-material","tag-mobile","tag-nippon","tag-rumored","tag-supply","tag-technology"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116695593596925386","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/519467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}